Year: 2013

  • June 18, 2013
    800

    Ruling party calls for resignations, by-elections

    BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC – The ruling St. Kitts Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP) has called for the resignations of two former members from Parliament saying they have breached the contracts given to them by the people who voted them into office during the last general election here. “I think that as elected officials, they can just take a position and…

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  • June 18, 2013
    779

    EDITORIAL: This challenging children problem for Jamaica govt

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – VARIOUS MEMBER STATES of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) face social, economic and political challenges at this time. It could, however, be quite disturbing to learn that Jamaica is not alone in having the very serious problem of thousands of its children living without birth certificates and consequently being kept out of the school. About a quarter million…

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  • June 18, 2013
    869

    Barbados seeking closer relationship with El Salvador

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados is seeking increased trade with El Salvador as part of efforts to increase relationship with the Central American country. “We do some trade with El Salvador. We do not export as much to El Salvador as we should be doing…and we look forward, of course, to achieving some balance in our trading relationship,” said Prime…

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  • June 18, 2013
    854

    Government claims video showing beating of Cubans in detention centre is false NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC

    NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas government has described as “a complete falsehood and an outrageous concoction” a video showing Cuban detainees being beaten by officers at a Bahamian detention centre. Foreign Affairs and Immigration Minister Fred Mitchell said the government has since referred the matter to its lawyers. He said he had seen a copy of the video purporting…

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  • June 18, 2013
    722

    Universities facing dilemma?

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Have student support services become more complex? Or, has society, in its effort to remove the elitism of tertiary education, thrown out the reverence and thought which was formerly given to chosing a path of higher learning, leaving behind institutions which have become attractors of high debt and procrastinators? It was a thought which rested on our…

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  • June 18, 2013
    832

    Airport construction costs increases significantly

    KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – The chief executive officer of the International Airport Development Company (IADC), Dr. Rudy Mathias, says the cost of constructing the Argyle international airport has increased by nearly EC$200 million dollars (One EC dollar = US$0.37 cents) since construction nearly a decade ago. Speaking on the state-owned NBC radio, Mathias said in 2004 when the first…

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  • June 18, 2013
    782

    Haiti reports first suspected H1N1 death in 2013

    Haiti reported on Monday its first suspected death this year from H1N1 virus, reports reaching here said. The victim was from the small community of Nan Bannann in the southern city of Belle-Ansecity, 110 km southwest of the capital Port-au-Prince, the reports said. As local government said, the victim died at a hospital in Thiotte, 65 km east of the…

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  • June 18, 2013
    793

    Pilots to undergo training for new LIAT aircraft

    ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of LIAT Ian Brunton revealed at least three months of training would be required for LIAT pilots to begin flying new ATR aircraft acquired by the airline. Brunton said training is to begin with a “long three-month process, starting with the ground school” run by the manufacturer in France. “Pilots have to…

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  • June 18, 2013
    793

    Dominican, Haiti governments square off on poultry ban

    Santo Domingo.- The Dominican government Monday night called Haiti’s proposal to continue banning Dominican poultry products and allow only meats, “totally unacceptable,” after a four hour  meeting of officials from both countries failed to solve the one-week standoff. After the meeting, Foreign minister Carlos Morales said president Danilo Medina was told “in a very clear, very transparent and quite frankly,…

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  • June 18, 2013
    1,079

    In Bahamas, Arthur warns of threats to nation building

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – FORMER Barbados Prime Minister Owen Arthur is warning of social disintegration within the Caribbean if new lifestyles and consumption patterns promoted through globalisation, are allowed to go unchecked. Arthur gave the warning in an address at the 40th anniversary celebration of the Independence of The Bahamas, saying that it could also affect nation building in the region.…

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