Year: 2013

  • July 18, 2013
    897

    Singapore and Barbados sign open skies deal

    Singapore has inked an open skies deal with Barbados that gives carriers full rights to operate as many flights as they want between the two nations. Without strong demand for air services between the two points, it is unlikely the agreement will lead to actual flights, industry analysts said. Still, the deal sealed on Wednesday between Transport Minister Lui Tuck…

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  • July 18, 2013
    796

    STANDING OUR GROUND- A&B sets stage to collect WTO remedy

    ST JOHN’S, Antigua- After 10 years of stalemate negotiations and estimated billions of dollars lost when United States legislation decimated the local gaming industry, government has moved towards collecting on World Trade Organisation (WTO) approved sanctions. Government yesterday announced the establishment of a seven-member WTO Remedies Implementation Committee (RIC), to implement the sanctioning process.

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  • July 18, 2013
    343

    CARIFESTA Organisers Expect 30 Countries to Participate

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Chairman of the Host Country Management Committee (HCMC), Mr. Ivan Graanoogst, has disclosed that 24 countries have so far confirmed their participation in the festival, but that this number is expected to rise to 30 countries by August 16th.  Speaking at a weekly breakfast with the press recently held at the Headquarters of Carifesta…

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  • July 18, 2013
    657

    CARICOM YOUTH AMBASSADORS RETURN FROM INTERNATIONAL YOUTH FORUM SELIGER 2013 IN RUSSIA

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     CARICOM Youth Ambassadors Tamira Browne (St. Vincent and the Grenadines), Patrice Harris (St. Kitts and Nevis) and Jamonn Roberts (Barbados) returned from the International Youth Forum Seliger 2013 held in Russia from the 21st – 28th July, 2013. The Forum had representation from 130 countries and mobilised 3000 participants. During the Forum, the Ambassadors…

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  • July 18, 2013
    867

    CAL cuts Air Jamaica flights

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Cash-strapped Caribbean Airlines (CAL) has cut the number of flights of its Air Jamaica subsidiary by 50 per cent in a bid to stem multi-million-dollar losses at the national airline. CAL has reduced the flight frequencies of Air Jamaica’s core schedule services from Kingston and Montego Bay, Jamaica, to North American destinations including Toronto, Canada…

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  • July 17, 2013
    766

    Democratise diplomatic process

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Diplomacy, stripped bare, is conversation taking place between global leaders behind closed doors. As with everything else, it is being impacted by global trends which keep emerging more rapidly than before. The IT age has seen a world, formerly home to a select few some ten to 20 years ago, now become the playground for everyday people.…

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  • July 17, 2013
    776

    After Egypt: uneasy now lies the head that wears a (democratic) crown

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Egyptian military coup that removed the democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi was justified as an act to save democracy and preserve law and order by preventing the country from sinking into further chaos and violence. The military claimed that it was prompted not only by social disorder but by the publicly expressed demands of the majority…

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  • July 17, 2013
    781

    Democratise diplomatic process

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Diplomacy, stripped bare, is conversation taking place between global leaders behind closed doors. As with everything else, it is being impacted by global trends which keep emerging more rapidly than before. The IT age has seen a world, formerly home to a select few some ten to 20 years ago, now become the playground for everyday people.…

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  • July 17, 2013
    829

    Caribbean American congresswoman wants probe into Zimmerman

    NEW YORK, CMC – Caribbean American congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke has joined members of New York City Congressional Delegation in calling on the United States Department of Justice to conduct a “thorough” investigation and possible prosecution of a white neighbourhood watch volunteer who killed an unarmed black youth in Florida. On Saturday, an all-white female jury in Florida found George…

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  • July 17, 2013
    798

    EDITORIAL: Security bureaucracy out of control

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – It makes perfect sense why the United States is desperate to get its hands on Edward Snowden. Perhaps because he is likely to spill even more beans about the United States National Security Agency’s (NSA) clandestine activities. This is exactly what he is doing though being holed up in Russia where he is desperately seeking asylum. A…

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