Barbados

  • January 29, 2013
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    $450 million boost

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – BARBADOS will be embarking on a $450 million project to breathe fresh life into the country’s ailing sugar industry. The project was outlined yesterday by Agriculture Minister, Dr. David Estwick, prior to a meeting with industry officials and representatives of two companies which are likely to play key roles in the reconfigured sugar industry. Over the years,…

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  • January 29, 2013
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    Caribbean Leadership Project launched

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Government of Barbados expressed its gratitude to Canada for implementing the Caribbean Leadership Project. The first part of that project, the Leadership Development Programme, was launched yesterday at the Cave Hill School of Business. Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, Martin Cox, took the opportunity to convey this Government’s appreciation to Canada…

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  • January 28, 2013
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    UWI fallout

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – A debt of approximately $200 million owed by the Barbados Government to the University of the West Indies – most of it to the Cave Hill campus – has started to have a negative impact and ripple effect on several operators within the business community. DAILY NATION investigations have revealed that the Barbados-based campus which is celebrating…

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  • January 28, 2013
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    Caribbean women subject to widespread sexual violence

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – exual violence against women is being seen as widespread in parts of Latin America and the Caribbean. Alessandra Guedes, Regional Advisor on Intra-Family Violence at PAHO has indicated that a recent report titled “Violence against Women in Latin America and the Caribbean” showed that unfortunately violence against women is widespread in the 12 countries that they studied…

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  • January 25, 2013
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    Study breaking boundaries

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – BARBADOS will be the first country in this region to carry out a study on its population’s salt intake. According to Senior Health Officer, Dr. Kenneth George, the study – being carried out under the leadership of the Ministry of Health and the National Chronic Non-Communicable Disease Commission – is trying to estimate the quantity of salt…

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  • January 23, 2013
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    Terrorism spreads to Algeria

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – ON SUNDAY, United States President Barack Obama was sworn in for his second term in office. He will have to shoulder the power and burden of the presidency in an increasingly turbulent world darkened by domestic discord and crises abroad. Obama has already said that he would root his second term in the crusade to build a…

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  • January 22, 2013
    812

    Prime Minister hints at naming date for general election soon

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has hinted that he is likely to name the date for the next general elections within a few weeks time. But he says he will only announce the date after he meets with the Governor General Elliott Belgrave. “Let there be no mistake that the (opposition) Barbados Labour Party has been calling…

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  • January 21, 2013
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    Remembering men of influence

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – TODAY WE REFLECT on the life and times of the Right Excellent Errol Walton Barrow, one of this island’s most important and influential leaders of the last century. Now a National Hero, Barrow will be remembered for many things – as Premier and Prime Minister and the man who led much of the social engineering that transformed…

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  • January 21, 2013
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    EDITORIAL: A search for compromise

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – All Barbadians will breathe a huge sigh of relief now that there has been a settlement in the LIME dispute, and all parties at the negotiating table should be commended for their willingness to sit down and calmly, if perhaps a little belatedly, look at the issues and search for compromise. Our Prime Minister deserves kudos for…

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  • January 21, 2013
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    CXC to beef up security BRIDGETOWN

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -THE CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL (CXC) is taking steps to reduce incidents of fraud. Speaking to the DAILY NATION after a service to mark the organisation’s 40th anniversary at St Matthias Anglican Church yesterday evening, senior assistant registrar for examinations and security Susan Giles reported that they were introducing an audit system. “The school-based assessments, we are auditing them.…

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