Barbados

  • May 15, 2013
    898

    Bynoe: Import tariff not proper

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – THE 184 per cent import tariff on certain meat products is having such an effect on Carlton and Emerald City supermarkets that the two establishments may not be able to supply Barbadians with the popular seasoned chicken wings from next week. Mananging director Andrew Bynoe told the MIDWEEK NATION, that neither supermarket deli will stock the chicken wings…

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  • May 14, 2013
    895

    EDITORIAL: Africa’s stifled growth potential

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Last week African business and government leaders met in Cape Town at the World Economic Forum on Africa to assess the impact of its growing wealth on alleviating poverty and to address the issue of transparency. It is well known that Africa’s impressive growth is not shared by millions of its people. Sub-Saharan Africa is home to…

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  • May 14, 2013
    895

    Threats to traditional knowledge outlined

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Consultations conducted within the Caribbean region have revealed that there are numerous threats to traditional knowledge (TK). Regional Consultant with the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), Mary Ann Richards says that there is a lack of knowledge about the contribution that TK has made in the past and can make in the future to development. She made…

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  • May 14, 2013
    917

    Dr. Brathwaite: Country has no control

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbados should be conscious of its food supply, as the ability to withstand external shocks such as a nuclear accident, major terrorist attack, natural disaster or any international event that disrupts the movement of food to Barbados or leads to international food price increases, could leave us very vulnerable indeed. According to Dr. Chelston Brathwaite, an agriculture…

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  • May 14, 2013
    966

    Climate adaptation measures not expensive, says UWI lecturer

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbados may have few excuses as to why it is falling behind in implementing certain climate adaptation measures, but money cannot be one of them. Speaking at a seminar last Thursday which examined “Water Management, Health and Climate Change Adaptation”, presenter Dr. Adrian Cashman, Senior Lecturer in Water Resources Management at the University of the West Indies…

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  • May 13, 2013
    848

    Revenue dip . . . But Govt spending to jump to $3.87 billion

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The challenges confronting the just re-elected Freundel Stuart administration are already showing up in the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure laid in Parliament yesterday. Government is projecting that total revenue coming into state coffers for the 2013-2014 financial year will fall to $2.59 billion from the $2.62 billion approved for 2012 -2013. The administration estimates that it…

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  • May 13, 2013
    894

    OAS urges strengthening of transparency in political financing

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Jose Miguel Inzulsa,has called for greater equity and transparency in the systems of political financing in the Caribbean. Addressing the regional forum, “Strengthening Regulation of Political Parties and Political Financing Systems in the Caribbean,” the OAS chief said these are necessary “not only for the consolidation of…

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  • May 13, 2013
    936

    A wait-and-see situation

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – EVERYONE will wait to see what comes out of the meeting which the LIAT shareholder governments said they want to have with the Government of Trinidad and Tobago. It is a meeting that could determine the way forward for the region’s airlines which are facing challenges in relation to operational costs. The subject of the discussions is…

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  • May 13, 2013
    938

    Agro vision

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – FORMER DIRECTOR GENERAL of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, Dr. Chelston Brathwaite, has called for a new focus on local agriculture that will bring benefits including a reduction in the food import bill. He said the new vision for agriculture should have a focus on making it an integral part of driving agro-related sectors of…

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  • May 13, 2013
    973

    EDITORIAL: Make it clear for Canadians

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The news that our offshore sector was recently severely criticized in the Canadian parliament is one more inconvenient truth that the Barbados economic policymakers will have to face. In a report earlier this month, the Standing Committee on Finance of that country’s parliament made recommendations to its government on a number of proposals to come down hard…

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