Month: July 2013

  • July 5, 2013
    756

    T&T deflects questions on rights record of Caricom invitee

    (Trinidad Express) Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Dookeran said the Trinidad and Tobago Government was not in a position to adjudicate on international human rights reports on President of Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. Mbasogo, who in his capacity as head of the ACP (African, Caribbean and Pacific) region, was one of three presidents invited to attend this week’s Caricom…

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  • July 5, 2013
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    Jamaica Customs Head sees increased ganja trafficking to Guyana

    (Jamaica Gleaner) Commissioner of Customs Major (retd) Richard Reese has expressed satisfaction with the combined efforts of the various law-enforcement agencies in patrolling the nation’s ports. Reese lauded the Jamaica Customs’ Contraband Enforcement Team (CET), Transnational Crime and Narcotics Division (TCND), Coast Guard and Marine Police for what he called “a team approach.” “We have weekly narcotics seizures at the…

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  • July 5, 2013
    1,209

    Oil clean-up still a messy issue

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nation News – GOVERNMENT MAY eventually have to cough up $64 million dollars for the clean-up of the former Mobil Oil Refinery site at Needham’s Point. But the legal team representing the Canadian company originally hired to clean up the site believe Government’s continued delay in signing a contract to have the work done may have made the…

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  • July 5, 2013
    772

    Lagging behind

    GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Stabroek News – Guyana’s dismal record on maternal mortality would have contributed to the near-fail the region received on this target when the 2013 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) report was released on Monday in Geneva, Switzerland. While Latin America and the Caribbean was referred to as one region for most of the report, the fifth goal—‘Reducing Maternal Mortality’—was…

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  • July 5, 2013
    857

    Sinckler: Cut could have been deeper

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate – HAD Government’s Medium Term Fiscal Strategy (MTFS) not been implemented, the fiscal adjustment which now has to be made of four per cent or close to $400 million, would be times higher. This assertion from Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, Chris Sinckler, who believes the shift being seen right now was reflective of what was…

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  • July 5, 2013
    885

    UWI’s Open Campus to be first accredited

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate – History will be created in Barbados when the Barbados Accreditation Council (BAC) grants institutional accreditation status to one of the island’s tertiary educational providers – the University of the West Indies Open Campus (UWIOC). The Open Campus will receive this award, the first of its kind on the island, next Monday, July 8 at 10 a.m.…

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  • July 5, 2013
    813

    Healthier options

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate – In an effort to curb the growing level of obesity in this island, the Ministry of Health has started talks with several fast food restaurants with the intent of having healthier foods placed on their menus. Senior Medical Health Officer (CNCDs), Dr. Kenneth George, made this revelation yesterday during Esso’s Help Us Help programme at the…

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  • July 5, 2013
    840

    UNITED STATES-CRIME -Potentially damning evidence found against ex-football star accused of killing Antiguan-born semi-professional

    BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 4, CMC – The police say they have found potentially damning evidence allegedly linking ex-National Football (NFL) star Aaron Hernandez in the execution-style murder of Antiguan-born, semi-professional football player, Odin Lloyd. On Wednesday, Massachusetts State Police released a 36-page summary of returns from a search warrant it executed at an apartment maintained by the former Patriots tight-end,…

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  • July 5, 2013
    852

    UNITED STATES- MIGRATION -US Coast Guard repatriates Cuban migrants

    MIAMI, Florida, CMC – The United States Coast Guard says it has repatriated 37 Cuban migrants to Bahia de Cabañas, Cuba. On Wedneday, the Coast Guard said crewmembers aboard the cutter Margaret Norvell repatriated the Cubans the day before “as a result of four separate interdiction cases.” Between June 26 and 29, Coast Guard crewmembers worked alongside US Customs and…

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  • July 5, 2013
    857

    BERMUDA- DEVELOPMENT – Premier promises help to Bermuda’s second town

    HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – Premier Craig Cannonier has pledged to give St George's, Bermuda's second town, a facelift. On a recent fact finding tour, Cannonier, visited the town which is also a UNESCO World Heritage site,  to take a look at the town’s crumbling infrastructure. He pledged not to let the east end get dragged further into decline, saying the…

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