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CARICOM calls for stronger legislation to deal with violence against women
UNITED NATIONS, CMC – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Monday said there is urgent need for stronger legislative measures to deal with the issue of violence against women and other obstacles to gender equality and women empowerment. Guyana’s Human Services and Social Security Minister Jennifer Webster, addressing the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, said that the absence of…
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LIAT suspends flights to St Lucia
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The Antigua-based regional airline, LIAT, Monday announced it had been forced to suspend flights to St. Lucia where public servants have taken industrial action to force the government to increase their salaries and wages. A brief statement from the cash-strapped airline did not say how many flights were being suspended but said that the suspension…
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Private sector group wants end to industrial impasse as public servants stay away from their jobs
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – The St. Lucia Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture (CCIA) Monday called for an end to the industrial action by public servants who are demanding higher salaries from the Kenny Anthony administration. CCIA executive director Brian Louisy urged both the Government Negotiating Team (GNT) and the unions representing teachers and public servants to return to…
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PM appeals
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony Monday appealed to public workers to accept his government’s four per cent wage increase and prevent the island from “any further hardship” as workers stayed away from their jobs for higher salaries. “Our country does not need mayhem, confusion and disagreement at this time, our people need to get together,…
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Deficit of meritocracy in the Caribbean
KINGSTON, Jamaica – A meritocracy exists where selection and promotion of people is based on merit, more specifically, their qualifications and performance. Regrettably, there's a deficit of meritocracy in the Caribbean. In the national political arena, selection is based on political party affiliation, amount of money donated, race, class and gender. Civil servants are mostly promoted by seniority. Longevity and…
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Audit finds US loan program in Haiti fill with flaws
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – An audit of a U.S. Agency for International Department program that aimed to boost Haiti's economy by providing loans to businesses has found that the program failed to award loans to intended targets, train workers and keep accurate records. The aim of the audit released in late February by USAID's Office of the Inspector General was to…
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CCJ begins hearing evidence in historic sitting in Jamaica
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The lead attorney for the Barbados government, Queen Counsel Roger Forde, will continue his cross examination of Jamaican Shanique Myrie on Tuesday as the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) continues its first ever sitting here in the case in which the Jamaican national has sued Barbados. Myrie, 25, who was granted leave by the CCJ…
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Region-wide nursing exams to start in October
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The 41st joint meeting of the Executive and Education Committees and 10th Practice Committee of the Regional Nursing Body agreed to the Caribbean Examination Council’s (CXC) proposal for an October 2013 start date for the Regional Nursing Entrance Examination (RENR). The meeting, at the CARICOM Secretariat in Guyana, on 26-28, February, reviewed and made…
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