Barbados
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April 9, 2013682
Follow-up is essential
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Technocrats can do a lot more to build confidence in the ability of state institutions to facilitate an enabling environment for business, to create a greener environment for generations to come and to position Barbados to take full advantage of its CARICOM membership. Recently, Minister of Industry, International Business, Commerce and Small Business Development, Donville Inniss, stated…
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April 8, 2013653
EU support for region continues
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – THE recent announcement by European Union officials of an investment package for the Caribbean is good news all around. Not only is the proposal a welcome piece of information by recipient countries, which are witnessing a slowdown in capital inflows, but the announcement of the Caribbean Investment Facility (CIF) also conveys the position that there remains support…
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April 5, 2013687
Supine and silent: The Caribbean in a vortex BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – How beneficial or not to the Car
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – How beneficial or not to the Caribbean is the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the 27-nation European Union (EU) as a bloc and the 15 small Caribbean members of CARIFORUM individually? Five years after the EPA became operational, this issue is still being debated. But, it is a sterile debate. The EPA – with all its flaws,…
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April 5, 2013669
Private sector should lead
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – “The private sector must be the driver of the economy!” This is the expressed view of His Excellency, the Hon. Robert Morris, CHB, Barbados’ Ambassador to CARICOM, as he delivered the featured address at the Combermere School’s Annual Speech Day and Prize-giving Ceremony. He noted that one of the problems he had detected in CARICOM is that…
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April 4, 2013725
A paradigm shift
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Given the parlous state of regional economies, there could scarcely be disagreement that if any of our traditional officious bystanders, the little green man from Mars, the fly on the wall or the politically observant “blind man on a trotting horse” were to observe our current situation, he would offer a view that “it cannot be business…
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April 4, 2013683
EDITORIAL: Barbados needs to be a safer destination
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Whether or not the call for a special court for tourism-related crimes comes into being, Barbados needs to be safer – for the half-million tourists who visit here annually and, equally, for our citizens. This fair land is not immune to the dramatic increase of crime, mainly robbery-based and drug-related, that has been sweeping the Caribbean in…
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April 4, 2013692
Data deficit
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – An official of one of the United Nations agencies has expressed concern about the dearth of social data in the Caribbean region. UNICEF’s Representative for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, Khin-Sandi Lwin, made the point yesterday morning while addressing those gathered for the opening of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS), Data Analysis Workshop in the conference…
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April 3, 2013880
Research essential
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbados continues to bank on its people as its most valuable resource – a position that is reinforced by the heavy investment made by the State in the areas of education and health care. It is a natural synergy; after all, why invest millions in equipping a workforce with skills that are unable to be optimally implemented…
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April 3, 2013682
Systematic plan of action needed to mitigate against disasters
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – A systematic process must be put in place to ensure that there is continuous learning regarding the hazards that can affect Barbados and clear plans and appropriate actions must be outlined before disasters occur, through an effective mitigation strategy, so as to reduce the scale or severity of impacts. This was the point made by Nicole Greenidge…
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April 3, 2013664
Not enough disaster training programmes
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The range and quantity of the programmes available for training with respect to disasters are too limited. That is the view of the recently retired executive director of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), Jeremy Collymore, who made the point while speaking to the media during his last press conference as head of the regional entity.…
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