Barbados

  • May 29, 2013
    841

    Barbados welcomes new rum agreement

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados government has welcomed the agreement signed by Foursquare Rum Distillery to distill, blend and bottle a brand of rum known as “10 Cane’ which officials say is expected to rake in BDS$100 million (One Barbados dollar = US$0.50 cents) in foreign exchange. “Rum is a distinct Barbadian product and I believe that we are…

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  • May 29, 2013
    821

    Central Bank comments on OECD report

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Central Bank of Barbados says a recent report issued by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is raising many “difficult issues not least of which is the need for an international coordinated approach on the rights to tax”. The Central Bank in a comment on the OECD “Addressing Base Erosion and Profit Shifting…

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  • May 28, 2013
    853

    Make wise food choices

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate – Making wise food choices would help to prevent obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, high cholesterol and other chronic non-communicable diseases (CNCDs). This is according to the National Nutrition Centre who lays out eight easy to follow guidelines in “Food Based Dietary Guidelines for Barbados.” The first of these tells you that you can “enjoy…

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  • May 28, 2013
    891

    Access for all!

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate – The new Kerryann Ifill Unit at the University of the West Indies (UWI) is one more step in the direction of making the university a fully inclusive tertiary educational institution. Building upon the success of the already implemented Vision and Fortitude programme, in its 50th year of existence, the university is truly a ‘pathway to progress’.…

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  • May 28, 2013
    817

    Barbados and Guyana have to work on immigration issues -Bajan Foreign Minister

    (Barbados Nation) BARBADOS AND GUYANA need to solve the immigration issues that have soured their relations from time to time, says Minister of Foreign Affairs Senator Maxine McClean. She made her comment while addressing a reception marking Guyana’s 47th anniversary of independence on Friday night. Noting that the two countries had been able to generally solve a range of issue…

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  • May 28, 2013
    859

    CARICOM/US to sign trade accord

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nation News – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries will sign a trade investment framework agreement with the United States during the visit of Vice President Joe Biden to Trinidad and Tobago next week. Biden is due in Port of Spain on Monday for a two-day visit and will also meet with regional leaders to discuss security and other…

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  • May 24, 2013
    841

    Caribbean countries extend sympathy to United States on tornado disaster

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) governments have sent messages of empathy to the United States after a tornado killed more 24 people including nine children in Oklahoma on Monday. Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister, Baldwin Spencer, who is in Doha, attending the 13th Session of the Doha Forum, sent a message to President Barrack Obama expressing condolences and…

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  • May 24, 2013
    812

    Barbados must sharpen focus as a financial centre

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – THE OFFSHORE SECTOR has always been major part of the financial employment generating and foreign exchange earning aspects of our economy, and along with tourism, it has helped to fill the breach created by the decline of sugar. But the potential for that sector to do even more for the Barbadian economy can be gauged from the…

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  • May 23, 2013
    837

    Alternatives to criminalisation

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate – The recent report that an Organisation of American States (OAS) study is calling for a serious discussion on legalising marijuana follows a modern trend globally to re-think the “war” against this and other currently controlled substances. The London Guardian of May 13, for instance, reports that the Home Office of Britain is to undertake a study…

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  • May 23, 2013
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    Harmonise labour laws in the Caribbean

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate – There needs to be a harmonisation of labour laws within the region. This call was made recently by Cedric Murrell, President of the Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados (CTUSAB) at “The Role of Labour Standards in Accessing International Markets and Supporting the Caribbean Single Market Workshop” held at Island Inn. “A case…

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