Month: July 2013

  • July 31, 2013
    345

    CARICOM courts increased funding from International Development Partners

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)      The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) on Tuesday put forward a case to raise the level of funding from its International Development Partners (IDPs) and to increase the number of Community priorities in the bilateral and regional programmes of the IDPs. CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque wants to ensure that the Community’s positions are reflected in…

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  • July 31, 2013
    788

    CARIFORUM Platform to be Strengthened, says New DG

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)    Mr. Percival Marie, a national of the Commonwealth of Dominica, assumes office on August 1 as Director-General of the Caribbean Forum of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) States (CARIFORUM) Directorate in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. He replaces Mr. Ivan Ogando Lora. Mr. Marie who has been appointed for a period of three years…

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  • July 31, 2013
    778

    EDITORIAL: No solution in sight in Egypt

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – That the ouster of Egypt’s first democratically elected President Mohammad Morsi was a military coup should not be debatable. Subsequent developments however confirm the view that though the majority party governs, the army always rules. It is also testimony to the failure of the first phase of the tenuous nature of Egypt’s spontaneous revolution that coalesced around…

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  • July 31, 2013
    783

    Electoral Commission to consider new proposals on campaign financing

    KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) will meet on Wednesday to consider a proposal to increase the amount of funds individuals and donors can contribute to candidates and political parties, as part of draft legislation for campaign financing. ECJ Chairman Dr Herbert Thompson told The Jamaica Gleaner newspaper that the commission's original recommendation two years ago…

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  • July 31, 2013
    853

    Government worried about unpredictable nature of gold prices

    GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana government says it is monitoring the “unpredictable nature of gold prices” as the commodity was being sold on the market at US$1, 330 an ounce. Natural Resources and the Environment Minister Robert Persaud said the authorities share the anxiety of the mining community “as to the unpredictable nature of gold prices given the importance…

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  • July 31, 2013
    973

    Former junior minister guilty of refusing to take breathalyser test

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former junior national security minister Collin Partap has been slapped with a TT$5,000 (One TT dollar =US$0.16 cents) fine after he was found guilty Tuesday of a charge of failing to submit himself to a breathalyser test outside a night club last year. Chief Magistrate Marcia Ayres-Caesar, who earlier this month had rejected a…

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  • July 31, 2013
    793

    Pilots association denies members planning strike action

    ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The Leeward Islands Airline Pilots Association (LIALPA) says its members are not involved in any industrial action as the Antigua-based airline, LIAT, deals with a number of problems including flight cancellations in recent days. LIALPA said it had also taken objection to remarks made by the airline’s chief executive. Brunton had indicated that the cash-strapped…

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  • July 31, 2013
    921

    Barbados records increase in syphilis cases

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados health authorities say they are monitoring what seems to be an increase in the number of syphilis cases on the island. The Ministry of Health said that recent studies have revealed that a growing number of persons were testing positive for the sexually transmitted infection (STI). It gave no figures. They authorities say they are…

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  • July 31, 2013
    981

    Economy ‘hurt’ by exodus of non-nationals

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The exodus of a number of non-nationals from Barbados in recent times has affected the economy in a negative way. Mia Mottley, leader of the Opposition Barbados Labour Party stated this as she addressed a meeting of the St Vincent and Grenadines Association at the Clement Payne Centre on Monday night. “I am not going to be divisive but…

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  • July 31, 2013
    822

    Rescue plan

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Barbados Private Sector Association (BPSA) has its own plan to save the Barbados economy. The first two areas on its to-do list are for Government to reduce the country’s national debt by selling off non-strategic, non-core Government assets such as Hilton Barbados to pay down on debt, and sell strategic assets to credit unions, pension funds…

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