Barbados

  • April 19, 2013
    765

    Maduro and Venezuela, CARICOM ties

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – THE FIERCE battle to elect a successor to the late President Hugo Chavez is over but a heavy cloud of uncertainty hangs over Venezuela amid today’s official ceremony for Nicolas Maduro to take the oath as new head of state of that influential oil-rich nation. With seven known deaths and scores of injured during a clash of…

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  • April 19, 2013
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    Economic problems need urgent solution

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The difficulties confronting regional economies continue to stare us in the face on a daily basis. We hear of problems with the fiscal deficit in most islands, along with the pain and stress of civil servants clamouring for wage increases to cushion them against increases in the cost of living. Quite often, such increases are outside the…

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  • April 17, 2013
    773

    Diplomacy vital for democracy

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – IT HAS OFTEN BEEN SAID that democracy thrives in a turbulent climate. It is also true that for it to function effectively there will be winners and losers, who must accept the verdict and the will of the majority of the people. The situation in Venezuela is the latest example of the difficulty that could arise where…

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  • April 16, 2013
    748

    Recognise ICTs in small, medium enterprises

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Particular attention must be given to Small and Medium Enterprise (SMEs), with regards to how Information and Communication Technologies or ICTs, may be applied to improve their efficiency, extend their reach and make them more globally competitive. That is according to Dr. Keith Mitchell, Prime Minister of Grenada during his address to the University of the West…

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  • April 16, 2013
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    EDITORIAL: PM Mitchell’s gaffe on funding LIAT

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – FRESH FROM his electoral victory in Grenada’s February 19 parliamentary election, in which his People’s National Party captured all 15 seats, Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell chose to go public last week with a rather surprising negative message about the sole intra-regional airline, LIAT. Without any known outstanding dispute between his less than two-month-old administration and the…

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  • April 15, 2013
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    EDITORIAL: Bracing for hurricane season

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – THE START of this year’s Atlantic hurricane season is less than two months away, but with the predictions from the various forecasters of a very active season, we need to start putting the necessary precautions in place. We must disabuse our minds of the silly notion that a hurricane will not hit our country, believing that it…

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  • April 15, 2013
    776

    Clean up systems

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – IN one of his recommendations on the way forward for the Barbados economy, the Governor of this island’s Central Bank, Dr. Delisle Worrell, weighed in on the subject of bureaucracy which has been given much exposure in the country. He stressed that efforts must be redoubled to remove barriers to Barbados’ competitiveness. The Governor did not leave…

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  • April 12, 2013
    784

    Constant re-evaluation necessary

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate – It is crucial that this Government takes the opportunity during this increasingly difficult economic period to reassess its strategy for earning revenue. As such, this administration should be commended on its continued multifaceted approach to grow the economy through the development of the manufacturing, agriculture and especially the tourism industry – the latter being the main…

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  • April 12, 2013
    764

    Embrace ICTs

    BRDIGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate – To be competitive Barbadians need to embrace ICTs, as theycan significantly drive development in Barbados. This was the suggestion made by Donville Inniss, Minister of Industry, International Business Commerce and Small Business Development yesterday at the Digicel Corporate Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Conference at the Hilton. He made the point, “In order to compete in…

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  • April 12, 2013
    769

    BARBADOS-POLITICS-Regional leaders discuss wide ranging issues including

    CARICOM BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Prime Minister Freundel Stuart hinting that the global economic crisis may have forced Caribbean countries to become more inward looking, says nonetheless the regional integration movement is “alive and well.”   “The perception that the (regional integration) process has slowed, I think, may have more to do with the fact that the stakeholder countries have…

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