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Britain completes review of Montserrat’s Strategic Growth Programme
BRADES, Montserrat, CMC – Montserrat has received an improved rating following the end of the final review of the Strategic Growth Programme from Britain’s Department for International Development (DFID). But London has also indicated that Montserrat has work to do in several key areas including tax reforms. According to a DFID statement, the government “sustained its commitment to the reforms…
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Time to get our houses in order says British PM
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – British Prime Minister David Cameron has put pressure on Bermuda and other British Overseas Territories (OTs) to “take the lead” on tax information exchange and beneficial ownership. Cameron on Monday wrote to Bermuda, along with the rest of Britain's OTs and Crown dependencies such as Guernsey and the Isle of Man. The call for continued partnership…
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Authorities probe the deaths of 12 babies at hospital
BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – The Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital (KHMH) says 12 babies have died during the month so far and it has launched an investigation to determine whether the deaths were due to an infection outbreak. In a statement, the hospital said that the investigation is to “determine whether this is an outbreak of hospital-based (nosocomial) infection and if…
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T&T and Guyana poll politics
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – WHILE the three-year-old People’s Partnership Government of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar was yesterday preparing to defeat an opposition no-confidence motion, the 18-month-old administration of President Donald Ramotar in Guyana was pondering the timing of a general election that now seems unavoidable later this year. Leader of the Opposition Dr Keith Rowley’s no-confidence motion—debate on which…
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Wanted: Transparent, professional investigation
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The staggering claims made by Opposition Leader Keith Rowley during the no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Monday exceeded any expectations of politics as usual. Dr Rowley offered a damning trail of alleged e-mail evidence that outlined a sequence of governance misjudgements which include suggestions of an effort at silencing a T&T Guardian…
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Tradewinds 2013 to encourage more regional co-operation
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – More than 260 law enforcement and military officials from 14 Caribbean countries and the United States have started a training exercise here focussing on increasing regional cooperation to counter illicit trafficking and eliminate threats to the region. “Our regional threat is not a particular country or specific ideology. I think that we can agree that…
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Caribbean Farming Gets Its Roots Wet
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, (IPS) – As Caribbean communities grapple with the entwined challenges of climate change and food security, modern technologies offer hope that the region’s stagnating agricultural sector can be made more profitable. For the past six years, the University of Central Florida (UCF) has teamed up with the St. Kitts-based Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College (CFBC) to implement a…
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