Barbados

  • March 19, 2013
    860

    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, 2013
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    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, 2013
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    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, 2013
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    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, 2013
    822

    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, 2013
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    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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  • March 15, 2013
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    Continued EU support for region

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Some Bds$100 million will soon be made available to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean through an investment project funded by the European Union, in co-operation with a number of development banks. The Caribbean Investment Facility (CIF), which is due to be launched next week, will provide seed money to the Caribbean region of the ACP (Africa-Caribbean-Pacific) countries.…

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  • March 14, 2013
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    Government to spend more in 2013-14

    BRIDGETOWQN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados government says it plans to spend an estimated BDS$3.8 billion (One BDS dollar = US$0.50 cents) during the 2013-14 fiscal year, according to the estimates laid in Parliament. The Freundel Stuart government which was re-elected to office by a narrow 16-14 margin in the February 21 general election will spend BDS$227.5 million more than…

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  • March 14, 2013
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    Barbados to host Caribbean Innovation Challenge

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Sub-regional Office for Barbados and the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and the Young Americas Business Trust (YABT) will host the finals, expo and award ceremony of the Caribbean Innovation Challenge (CIC) on April 25-26, at the Hilton Hotel Resort in Barbados. The Caribbean Innovation Challenge (CIC) is…

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  • March 13, 2013
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    EDITORIAL: Kenya faces uncertain future

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of Kenya’s founding father, was named the winner of the country’s presidential election with 50.07 per cent of the vote last Saturday. He has the name, the wealth – and the burden that comes with his heritage. Unlike the late Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, Uhuru faces indictment by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for…

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