Year: 2013

  • June 20, 2013
    762

    Haiti receives US$15 million policy-based grant from IDB

    WASHINGTON, CMC – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has furnished a US$15 million grant to Haiti to support policy, legal and institutional reforms in the agricultural sector. The Washington-based financial institution said farming plays a “fundamental role in the Haitian economy,” accounting for around half of the country’s jobs and almost one quarter of national income. “The new grant is…

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  • June 20, 2013
    773

    CAL’s unfriendly skies

    GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The news that our Minister of Tourism, Irfaan Ali is engaging his Trinidadian counterpart about the unilateral, dramatic increase of airfares by Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL) from Guyana is welcome. Even more welcome would be news that the talks have resulted in the reduction of those fares to more tolerable levels as has prevailed earlier this year.…

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  • June 20, 2013
    785

    High-level talks on future of CAL

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica has given the new board of the Trinidad-based Caribbean Airlines (CAL) a month to indicate how it intends to use the Air Jamaica brand in the future. Transport Minister Dr. Omar Davies, Tuesday, met with a high- level delegation from Trinidad and Tobago that included Trade Minister Vasant Bharath and CAL board members, to discuss the…

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  • June 19, 2013
    747

    Events in Syria increase global turmoil

    GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Increasingly intense diplomacy among the Nato powers about the turmoil in Syria has been a feature of the last few weeks leading to this week’s G8 meeting hosted by Britain in Northern Ireland, once a similar scene of political-religious and military turmoil. The European powers have been pressing an apparently reluctant President Obama to join them in…

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  • June 19, 2013
    746

    Syria in for a summer offensive

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – LEADERS OF THE G8 countries – United States, Japan, Canada, Russia, Germany, France, Britain and Italy (representing just over half of the US$71.7 trillion global economy) – met this week in Ireland ostensibly to discuss the global economy. However, the conflict in Syria predictably dominated the summit which began on Monday, with Russia facing pressure to back…

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  • June 19, 2013
    817

    Antigua’s opposition alert

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – THE parliamentary opposition Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party (ABLP) has alerted the secretariats of both the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Organisation of American States (OAS) to what it views as a serious threat to constitutional, democratic governance in that twin-island  Eastern Caribbean country. This dramatic initiative yesterday came against increasing indications that the governing…

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  • June 19, 2013
    921

    Tale behind Khan’s e-mail comment

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – In the opinion of Jon Berryhill, the IT expert contracted by lawyer Israel Khan to review the package of e-mail documents read in Parliament by Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley, “There is nothing that is believable in any of it.” His verdict on the documents read into Hansard by Dr Rowley in May mirrored the…

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  • June 19, 2013
    890

    PNM defends Rowley visit to Gordon’s home

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The People’s National Movement (PNM) yesterday defended leader Dr Keith Rowley for meeting with Integrity Commission chairman Kenneth Gordon just days before he piloted a motion of no confidence against the Prime Minister and the government last month. In a statement yesterday, the party argued that Rowley’s meeting at Gordon’s home was no different from…

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  • June 19, 2013
    801

    I DID THE RIGHT THING

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – In the face of a raging controversy over his meeting with Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley at his personal residence, Integrity Commission chairman Ken Gordon is certain he did the right thing. In an interview with the Express yesterday, Gordon was asked whether he had made any decision of any kind as a result of…

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  • June 19, 2013
    813

    Government seeking to further reduce crime

    MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica government is implementing measures to further reduce crime in the country and is focusing on at-risk youth, according to National Security Minister Peter Bunting. He told the 5th Biennial Jamaica Diaspora Conference that ends here on Wednesday that while the country has made significant progress in dealing with the crime situation, including a…

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