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Opposition Leader responds to allegation of conspiracy to remove government
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Opposition Leader Dr. Keith Rowley says Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar and members of her coalition People’s Partnership government were engaged in “self defence” as the controversy over the “emailgate” scandal continues here unabated. Rowley, addressing a public meeting of the ain opposition People’s National Movement (PNM) in the capital on Tuesday night, said…
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Opposition warns of disobeying laws to stage street protests
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC – Leader of the main opposition People’s Action Movement (PAM), Shawn Richards, is warning that people will “ultimately take the matter to seek justice into their own hands” after the police denied a request for a march next week. Richards said that St. Kitts-Nevis is heading towards situation where people, who believe their rights are “being…
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Unions criticise coalition government, plan massive demonstrations
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Labour leaders Wednesday criticised the coalition People’s Partnership government of Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar describing it as a “spiteful and ruthless” administration that has trampled the rights of workers. They gave Persad Bissessar, who in 2010 participated in Labour Day march here, a failing grade, adding that after three years of being in…
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Poverty and the minimum wage
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – At the end of last month, a high-level international panel, which had been meeting under the auspices of the United Nations to look at the world beyond the 2015 end of timetable of the Millennium Development Goals, submitted its report to that body. The 27-member panel—14 women and 13 men—as internationally diverse as possible and jointly chaired…
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Late, but needed
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Although it is a case of closing the barn door after the horse has bolted, the Insurance Bill 2013 is a welcome piece of legislation which we hope will eliminate the possibility of any future recurrence along the lines of the CL Financial disaster. The unanimous parliamentary support for the bill reflects the widespread view…
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Coast Guard: South Florida relatives fueling Haitian migrant smuggling
Family members in South Florida are possibly behind a dangerous new trend in the Caribbean: the smuggling of undocumented Haitian immigrants from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico, a senior Coast Guard official said Wednesday. “The new thing that’s happening is in the Mona Passage between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico and it’s being fueled, we think, by money…
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US Coast Guard helps seize 1,500 pounds of cocaine in Caribbean Sea
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, CMC – The United States Coast Guard along with the Royal Netherlands Navy has seized 1,517 pounds of cocaine, with a street value of about US$24 million, from a go-fast vessel in the Caribbean Sea. In a statement on Wednesday, the Coast Guard said as a result, three smugglers from the Dominican Republic have been detained.…
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EDITORIAL – Tax havens in retreat
KINGSTON, Jamaica – A development that could affect the economics of some of Jamaica's more prosperous Caribbean neighbours and, perhaps, the pocketbooks of some of our better-heeled citizens, passed largely unnoticed here last week. Ten of Britain's overseas territories and colonies, acquiescing to the prompting of the UK Prime Minister David Cameron, signed an agreement to share financial information with…
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Haiti receives US$15 million policy-based grant from IDB
WASHINGTON, CMC – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has furnished a US$15 million grant to Haiti to support policy, legal and institutional reforms in the agricultural sector. The Washington-based financial institution said farming plays a “fundamental role in the Haitian economy,” accounting for around half of the country’s jobs and almost one quarter of national income. “The new grant is…
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