Barbados
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April 16, 2013819
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, 2013824
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, 2013823
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, 2013819
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, 2013810
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, 2013812
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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April 12, 2013787
CARIBBEAN-TRADE-CARIFORUM countries examine EPA Standby facility
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Apr 12, CMC – Caribbean Forum (CARIFORUM) countries have been urged to take advantage of the standby facility for capacity building under the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) that was signed with the European Union in 2008. Addressing a Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) organised Technical Briefing Meeting on the EPA Standby Facility for Capacity Building, Clairvair Squires, said the…
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April 11, 2013805
EDITORIAL: Tensions rise on Korean Peninsula
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nation News – Tensions in the Korean Peninsula must be of concern to all of us even though it is on the other side of the world. So much so that uncharacteristically China, North Korea’s only ally, was forced to speak out. China’s new President Xi Jinping, at an economic forum in Hainan Province, though not calling names,…
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April 11, 2013825
PM lauds Thatcher’s contribution
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nation News – The late Margaret Thatcher was impossible to ignore and was one of a handful of leaders who lent her name to an era. This is the view of Prime Minister Freundel Stuart who, in signing the condolence book for the former British Prime Minister, said no one could deny that between 1979 and 1990 Baroness…
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April 11, 2013814
What’s the plan?
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nation News – Government is being told to “come clean” with the people since the Central Bank’s call for an about turn in economic strategy reflects what the Opposition was saying all along. That was Leader of the Opposition Mia Mottley’s reaction to the bank’s statement that Government’s medium term fiscal strategy (MTFS) must be brought back on…
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