Barbados
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June 4, 2013791
Obstacles to development
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – On June 4, 1940, Winston Churchill stood in the House of Commons and painted the picture of a country that would refuse to bow to the pressures of a German annihilator. In one of his three most celebrated speeches, “We Shall Fight on the Beaches”, the victories which he depicted were not from a standpoint of having…
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June 4, 2013796
Barbados to host first ever water resources management workshop
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – More than 20 lecturers and researchers from universities across the Caribbean will meet in Barbados on Wednesday for the first-ever Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) Knowledge Management workshop to be held in the region. The two-day regional workshop is being organised by the Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C) in collaboration with the Centre for Resource Management and…
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June 4, 2013805
ACP’s sugar plea for EU to avoid a crisis
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – A MONTH from this week, Heads of Government of CARICOM will be meeting in Port of Spain for their regular annual summit. They will have much to reflect on – the just concluded rounds of informal meetings in Trinidad and Tobago with United States’ Vice-President Joseph Biden and China’s President Xi Jingping. The final agenda for the…
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June 3, 2013780
Still a priority
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The head of one of the United Nations agencies is concerned about the length of time it takes for cases of gender-based violence, including sexual assault of children, to be heard in the court system. Christine Arab, who recently took up the post as Representative of UN Women Multi-Country Office of the Caribbean, made the comments during…
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June 3, 2013774
Navigating the new dynamic
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – LAST week was a significant development in the relations between the United States and the small island nations of the Caribbean Community. Trinidad and Tobago hosted an official visit to the region by United States Vice President Joe Biden. Caribbean leaders, including our own Prime Minister, Freundel Stuart, held meetings with Mr. Biden and his delegation. It…
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June 3, 20131,089
The good news about Barbados’ Owen Arthur
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – SCHOLARSHIP on the contemporary political history of the Caribbean can benefit from the autobiographies, memoirs, papers and correspondence of political leaders, especially prime ministers. This is a well-developed and invaluable tradition in England and the United States, motivated in the former by an overweening sense of the importance of their history and the latter by the possibility…
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May 31, 2013811
Barbados to establish Revenue Authority
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados will establish a revenue authority this year because of a number of issues including inconsistencies in revenue collection, particularly at the Customs. Finance and Economic Affairs Minister Chris Sinckler recalled an instance last year, when Barbados was asked to explain to the World Customs Organisations, the discrepancies in revenue collected for goods imported from Japan.…
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May 31, 2013798
Region against guns: Caribbean committed to fight against weapons and crime
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – THIS island’s top cop has revealed steps are being taken – not only on the local front, but regionally – to arrest the problem of gun crimes. Speaking during the hand-over of a hydraulic shears at the Central Police Station from the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean…
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May 31, 2013780
Regional fisheries ministers meeting in Barbados
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Caribbean fisheries ministers are meeting in Barbados on Friday to discuss the work of the Belize-based Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM). “This is a very important meeting in terms of forging a new strategic direction for the fisheries sector,” said CRFM Executive Director, Milton Haughton. He said the seventh meeting of the CRFM Ministerial Council will…
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May 31, 2013786
Barbados ‘cut off’ due to economic development
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler has expressed concern that the economic development of Barbados and other small open economies has been used as a “bludgeoning instrument” against them when it comes to concessional financing from entities like the World Bank and preferential access to markets internationally. Sinckler made the remarks yesterday, as he addressed the Inter-American Development…
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