Month: February 2013
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JAMAICA-ECONOMY-Prime Minister urges sacrifices as Jamaica moves to sign IMF agreement
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica government is urging nationals to accept the stringent measures that will accompany a multi-million dollar Stand By Agreement (SBA) with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that would include increases taxes and the launch of a national debt exchange offer on Tuesday. In a joint address to the nation on Monday night, Prime Minister Portia…
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JAMAICA-ECONOMY-Finance minister describes negotiations with IMF as “long and hard”
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Finance Minister Dr. Peter Phillips says the government will introduce a number of measures aimed at improving the local economy as Jamaica moves into an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that it says is necessary to shore up the island’s balance of payments position and provide access to other multilateral sources of funds. In…
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CARIBBEAN-ENVIRONMENT- Risk management workshop begins in Suriname
BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – The Belize-based Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) Monday began the first of a series of risk management workshops in Suriname as it seeks to develop a regional approach to climate change risk management. The CCCCC said that representatives from the UK based consulting group Acclimatise, will assist in conducting the high-level workshops in Suriname, Barbados,…
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CARIBBEAN-SLAVERY-UWI principal wants CARICOM to seek reparation for slavery
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Principal of the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Sir Hilary Beckles, wants Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries to begin efforts aimed at seeking some form of reparation from Western countries for slavery. Speaking at the first of a series of lectures to commemorate the 250th Anniversary of the 1763 Berbice Slave…
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CARIBBEAN-POLITICS-CARICOM SG to pay official visit to Bahamas
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary-General Irwin LaRocque will be paying a three-day official visit to The Bahamas, the Guyana-based CARICOM Secretariat has announced. It said that LaRocque will meet with Prime Minister Perry Christie on Thursday and will also pay courtesy call on Foreign Affairs and Immigration Minister Frederick Mitchell. He will hold talks with National Security…
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The importance of maintaining hope
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Observer – WHATEVER the prime minister and her finance minister tell the nation later today, we can be very certain that it will require even more sacrifice and hardship. We already know that an International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme — deemed by economic experts as absolutely necessary if Jamaica is to stabilise its economy and ultimately achieve sustainable…
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HIV Testing Should Be Voluntary, Employers Warned
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Gleaner – THE WHITE Paper for the national workplace policy on HIV/AIDS has been tabled in Parliament, further paving the way for the establishment of enforcement mechanisms to protect the rights of persons infected or affected by the illness. The paper, which was laid on the table of the Senate on Friday, is intended to give legislative expression…
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JLP warns Gov’t it must sacrifice too What’s good for the goose
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Observer – AS the Government prepares to update the nation tonight on the pending International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan agreement, Opposition Leader Andrew Holness has warned the Portia Simpson Miller-led Administration that it must prepare to sacrifice as much as it intends to ask of Jamaicans. “For 50 years we have been asked to sacrifice, and again the…
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