Barbados

  • July 9, 2013
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    Freedom park to celebrate Mandela

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -The great South African leader and freedom fighter Nelson Mandela must be celebrated in life and in his ultimate departure of death. As such, Minister of Education, Science, Technology and Innovation, Ronald Jones, has asked that the Nelson Mandela Freedom Park, to be constructed at University Drive, Cave Hill, be a place of “spiritual reverence and peace”, so…

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  • July 9, 2013
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    Local emergency services on full alert

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Local emergency services here have been placed on full alert as Tropical Storm Chantal races towards the Lesser Antilles. In preparation, the Department of Emergency Management plans to activate the emergency operations centre at 9:30 pm (local time) and also open Category One shelters from 6:00 pm to facilitate persons who wish to shelter there. Deputy…

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  • July 9, 2013
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    A bigger CARICOM?

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – A report coming out of the recently concluded CARICOM Heads of Government meeting in Trinidad & Tobago has indicated that regional leaders will be looking to expand the bloc to embrace more territories in the area. The impetus behind this suggestion is to seek ways to strengthen CARICOM, which, it has been acknowledged, is facing challenges. Despite…

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  • July 9, 2013
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    Overcoming DR’s CARICOM hurdle

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – SOME CRITICS of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) may wonder why it is that the Dominican Republic’s repeated request to access membership of our regional economic integration movement is yet to get a positive response. A quick, short answer could perhap be in one word – trade! With the exception of Trinidad and Tobago, which continues to market…

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  • July 8, 2013
    949

    Barbados under weather watch

    (Barbados Nation) A weather advisory has been issued for Barbados. A strong tropical wave located about 1050 miles east-southeast of the windward islands is moving west-northwestward at around 25mph. Satellite imagery indicates that shower and thunderstorm activity has increased in organization since this afternoon. It seems this disturbance could become a tropical depression or tropical storm later tonight or on…

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  • July 8, 2013
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    Bajan PM: LIAT a major concern

    (Barbados Nation) PORT OF SPAIN – Barbados is so concerned about the future viability of regional carrier LIAT that it sought legal advice on whether its heavily subsidized competitor Caribbean Airlines (CAL) was following CARICOM rules. Speaking to the media at the start of the final day of the 34th regular CARICOM Heads of Government conference at the Hilton Hotel…

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  • July 8, 2013
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    BREA to focus on energy efficiency

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate – Recognising the need to raise the level of public awareness as it relates to energy efficiency and renewable energy technology, the Barbados Renewable Energy Association (BREA) will be launching a special Roadshow today. Executive Director of the Barbados Renewable Energy Association (BREA), Clyde Griffith, along with Aidan Rogers, Public Relations Officer for BREA and Arit Okey,…

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  • July 5, 2013
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    Oil clean-up still a messy issue

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nation News – GOVERNMENT MAY eventually have to cough up $64 million dollars for the clean-up of the former Mobil Oil Refinery site at Needham’s Point. But the legal team representing the Canadian company originally hired to clean up the site believe Government’s continued delay in signing a contract to have the work done may have made the…

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  • July 5, 2013
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    UWI’s Open Campus to be first accredited

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate – History will be created in Barbados when the Barbados Accreditation Council (BAC) grants institutional accreditation status to one of the island’s tertiary educational providers – the University of the West Indies Open Campus (UWIOC). The Open Campus will receive this award, the first of its kind on the island, next Monday, July 8 at 10 a.m.…

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  • July 5, 2013
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    Sinckler: Cut could have been deeper

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate – HAD Government’s Medium Term Fiscal Strategy (MTFS) not been implemented, the fiscal adjustment which now has to be made of four per cent or close to $400 million, would be times higher. This assertion from Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, Chris Sinckler, who believes the shift being seen right now was reflective of what was…

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