Year: 2013

  • January 14, 2013
    818

    Venezuela: Chavez is responding to treatment

    CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela's government says President Hugo Chavez is conscious and responding to treatment for a respiratory infection at a Cuban hospital. Information Minister Ernesto Villegas says the infection has been controlled, but Chavez is still suffering from respiratory deficiency. Chavez has been fighting the infection after undergoing a fourth round of surgery Dec. 11 for a cancer in…

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  • January 14, 2013
    877

    Chavez, PetroCaribe and the health of the Caribbean

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – The prognosis for the recovery from cancer of President Hugo Chavez is uncertain. If he is not able or does not assume the Venezuelan presidency, then it brings into question the continuation of PetroCaribe on which Caribbean countries are heavily dependent. The termination, phasing out, or revision of the terms of PetroCaribe would have devastating repercussions for…

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  • January 14, 2013
    873

    Stanford receiver seeks court approval for interim payment to investors

    DALLAS, Texas, CMC – The receiver for jailed Texas financier Allen Stanford’s assets has sought approval from a US federal judge for interim payment to swindled investors. In a filing in a federal district court, Ralph Janvey, the court-appointed receiver, asked Judge David Godbey for his permission to pay more than 17,000 investors an initial distribution of US$55 million. If…

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  • January 14, 2013
    826

    Coalition partner backs Foreign Minister Dookeran for post of President

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Congress of the People (COP) party, the second biggest partner in the four-party coalition People’s Partnership government says it is backing Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Dookeran for the post of President of Trinidad and Tobago. Parliament will meet on February 15 to elect a successor to President George Maxwell Richards, who leaves after…

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  • January 14, 2013
    840

    PNM Leads THA Race

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – A poll ahead of next Monday’s Tobago House of Assembly (THA) election is predicting a landslide victory for the incumbent People’s National Movement (PNM). The poll, by Nigel Henry and Tarik Parris of the firm Solution by Simulation, was carried out by telephone from January 7-9. It showed the Orville London-led PNM team winning 11…

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  • January 14, 2013
    1,114

    Manage cement price

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Last Tuesday, Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) announced a rise in price on a standard 42.5 kilogramme bag of cement by 9.5 per cent. The company had warned last July that it would have to review its prices after a 90-day strike by the OWTU meant to shift the company’s position from a wage offer of…

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  • January 14, 2013
    795

    EDITORIAL: Switching to alternative energy

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Things are beginning to look very interesting in the alternative energy sector in Barbados. In recent months we have witnessed an intensification of practical involvement and investment, from both the public and private sectors. There is now better appreciation that we can generate more of our power needs using solar and wind energy. Last week Government took…

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  • January 14, 2013
    845

    Barrow still has a presence

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Evidence of Errol Barrow’s influence continues to permeate Barbados and the Caribbean, Prime Minister Freundel Stuart told a thanksgiving service in memory of the Father of Independence yesterday. Speaking at St Christopher’s Anglican Church, Stuart said he and the members of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP), which Barrow co-founded, were “pleased to be his distinguished successors”. Stuart…

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  • January 14, 2013
    828

    It is only a matter of time

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – WITH the heightened political activity currently on in Barbados, it seems only a matter of time before Barbadians get to know just when they will be going to the polls to elect a Government of their choice. Both political parties – the ruling Democratic Labour Party and the Opposition Barbados Labour Party – are in a state…

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  • January 14, 2013
    799

    Outfoxed!

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has been outmanoeuvred by the opposition Barbados Labour Party (BLP) and is being forced to call a general election, three political scientists say. And they contend that the longer Stuart waits to act, the worse it could be for his Democratic Labour Party (DLP) administration. The three – Peter Wickham, Dr George Belle…

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