Barbados
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March 19, 2013866
$600m plan
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – THE OPPOSITION PROMISED an economic stimulus package but it is the re-elected Freundel Stuart administration that is about to deliver one. Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler revealed yesterday in the House of Assembly during the first day of debate on the 2013-2014 Estimates of Income and Expenditure that a $600 million stimulus package was on to generate…
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March 19, 2013899
Food imports too high
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbados’ food import bill has reached unsustainable levels for a small island developing state. This was pointed out by the Permanent Secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Tourism and International Transport, Shelley Carrington, while addressing the opening of the Ministries of Tourism and Agriculture sponsored workshop, “Mainstreaming Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) in the Restaurant Sub-sector,” held…
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March 19, 2013869
Expert calls for new laws to deal with issues affecting children
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A Caribbean law expert Monday categorised many of the region’s laws dealing with children as being outdated and not adequate in dealing with a range of social issues confronting that vulnerable segment of the population. Head of the Caribbean Law Institute, Professor Velma Newton, made the charge as the University of the West Indies (UWI) and…
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March 19, 2013857
Camera systems come under scrutiny as CCJ continues hearing testimony in case against Barbados
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Cameras installed at the Grantley Adams International Airport have been functioning since they were put in place as part of the security arrangements for the 2007 International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) was told on Monday. The Trinidad-based CCJ is hearing testimony in the case in which a Jamaican national…
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March 19, 2013885
CARICOM’s silence on UN’s rejection of Haitian claims
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – IT’S ALMOST a month since United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon informed Haiti’s President Michel Martelly of the quite shocking decision to invoke “legal immunity” for rejecting compensation claims by some 5 000 Haitian cholera victims. That tragic decision was conveyed via telephone within two days following the conclusion of a CARICOM Heads of Government Conference…
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March 18, 2013849
Path set for economic growth
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – ON the eve of tonight’s discussion on a strategy for growing the Barbados economy, it is necessary to refer to a paper which the Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados, Dr. Delisle Worrell, penned last year. In the paper published in Washington D.C. by the Group of 30, Dr. Worrell reiterated that economic expansion in this…
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March 18, 2013806
CDB, CCRIF host donor meeting
Bridgetown—The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) recently hosted a strategic donor meeting at the offices of the CDB in Barbados to discuss ways to support CCRIF’s new excess rainfall product and to coordinate with donors’ disaster risk management initiatives in the region. In his opening remarks, CDB president Dr Warren Smith said the…
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March 18, 2013917
CCJ hearing of Shanique Myrie case heads to Barbados
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – All is in place for Monday’s sitting of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in Barbados to hear evidence in the case of Shanique Myrie, the Jamaican woman who took the Government of Barbados to court on allegations that she was assaulted by an immigration officer in 2011. The CCJ will hear from Immigration department officials…
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March 15, 2013841
On board – Hunte clears air on WICB election
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Incumbent West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) president Dr Julian Hunte is dismissing claims that he informed fellow directors that he would not be seeking re-election. In an interview ahead of the WICB’s annual general meeting in Barbados on March 27, Hunte sought to set the record straight against the background of earlier reports that suggested he would…
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March 15, 2013808
Ganja use ‘all over’
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Marijuana use has reached worrying proportions and is no longer confined to boys on the block and the unemployed. The National Council for the Prevention of Alcoholism and Drug Dependency (NCPADD) and the National Council for Substance Abuse (NCSA), think the alarm bells are ringing in relation to marijuana use which according to them is now prevalent among…
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