Year: 2013

  • July 26, 2013
    843

    Two Caribbean countries included in 20 regional countries encouraging female entrepreneurs

    WASHINGTON, CMC – Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago are the only Caribbean Community (CARICOM) states ranked among 20 Latin America and Caribbean countries that provide the best environments for female entrepreneurs. The Women’s Entrepreneurial VentureScope (WEVentureScope) index was released by the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), a member of the Inter-American Development Bank Group, and developed by the Economist Intelligence Unit.…

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  • July 26, 2013
    771

    Worrying times for sport in the Caribbean

    GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Jamaica and the rest of the region are still reeling from the shocking disclosures that five Jamaican athletes, starting with the legendary Veronica Campbell-Brown and including their beloved Asafa Powell and 2004 4×100 Olympic gold medallist Sherone Simpson, have tested positive for banned substances. It is a crisis of very real proportions in Jamaica, where, as André…

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  • July 26, 2013
    819

    It’s high time for a free trade pact with Haiti: Business leaders

    Santo Domingo. – Haiti’s ban on local products has prompted the young business leaders grouped in ANJE to call for a free trade agreement with that country. “We must set clear rules, to see how we can reach an agreement, write it all down so that the products manufactured in Dominican Republic can be consumed at good prices in Haiti,”…

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  • July 26, 2013
    774

    Easier said than done

    ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – On Wednesday, the Ministry of Health with the assistance of the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) and the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO), launched the Food Based Dietary Guidelines for Antigua & Barbuda. At the event were government officials including Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer, who briefly addressed those in attendance. During his speech, PM Spencer said,…

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  • July 26, 2013
    828

    Leeward Islands population urged to monitor progress of Dorian

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Resident in the Leeward Islands were told on Friday to continue monitoring the progress of Tropical Storm Dorian that had become less organised as it moved towards the islands. The Miami-based National Hurricane Center (NHC) said that Dorian, located 1,425 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands, is packing sustained winds of 50 miles per hour,…

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  • July 26, 2013
    779

    Dietary guidelines to inform good eating habits launched

    ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Government officials are banking on the information contained in the recently released Food Based Dietary Guidelines to address the high incidences of non-communicable diseases to include obesity, diabetes and hypertension that affect residents. The guidelines, released on Wednesday, are aimed at promoting healthy eating habits and active lifestyles in order to prevent chronic nutrition-related diseases among…

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  • July 26, 2013
    804

    Region warned not to lose sight of economic transformation

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Caribbean countries have been warned that they should not lose sight of the bigger goal of economic transformation and development even as they remain pre-occupied with overall economic growth. Former deputy director of the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr. Shelton Nicholls said Caribbean countries “”need to ensure that the strategies and that we are…

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  • July 26, 2013
    805

    World Bank backs Caribbean’s steady poverty reduction

    WASHINGTON, CMC – The World Bank has committed US$11.8 billion in the 2013 fiscal year to support Latin America and the Caribbean resilience in the midst of global turmoil. The Washington-based financial institution said this includes resources from its International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), International Development Association (IDA), International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA).…

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  • July 26, 2013
    1,010

    ECLAC predicts 2% growth in 2013

    SANTIAGO, Chile, CMC – The United Nation’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) says the Caribbean is expected to maintain “the slow upward trend in growth observed in previous years” to reach 2.0 percent in 2013. In its Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2013, released here on Wednesday, ECLAC said growth in Latin America…

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  • July 25, 2013
    830

    Top Cop denies statements

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams Wednesday denied making statements that the emails purporting to show that members of the Trinidad and Tobago government were engaged in efforts to undermine the judiciary, the DPP and the media, were false. Williams told a news conference that he was “actually astonished by such a publication because there…

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