Year: 2013

  • July 31, 2013
    767

    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
    951

    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
    895

    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
    770

    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
    952

    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
    801

    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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  • July 31, 2013
    820

    After Warner’s triumph

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – JACK WARNER’S convincing victory in Monday’s by-election for the Chaguanas West constituency can be subjected to varying political interpretations. These will undoubtedly be coming in the days ahead from political scientists and other media commentators. We may, however, have to wait for the local government elections, likely to occur by October, to know if Mr…

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  • July 31, 2013
    887

    The UNC’s options in Chaguanas West

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – In their concession speeches on Monday night, both the defeated United National Congress candidate Khadijah Ameen and her leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar promised to continue the “work” in Chaguanas West. This being politics, however, the services provided by the Government to that rebel constituency will most likely be determined by whichever strategy the ruling UNC decides…

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  • July 31, 2013
    822

    ‘By-election won’t affect investors’

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – It is still too early to determine what sort of impact Jack Warner’s victory in Monday’s Chaguanas West by-election will have on investor confidence in Trinidad and Tobago, president of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) Hugh Howard said yesterday. In a brief telephone interview, Howard said businessmen and investors were not going to be…

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  • July 31, 2013
    806

    FALLOUT

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Jack Warner’s victory in Chaguanas West has laid bare some uncertainties within the People’s Partnership coalition. The People’s Partnership, which won 29 seats in May 2010, started out with a 21/6/2 equation—21 United National Congress (UNC) members, six from the Congress of the People (COP) and two from the Tobago Organisation of the People (TOP).…

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