Barbados
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January 8, 2013703
PM comments on Barbados’ downgrade
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – No country rejoices at being downgraded, says Prime Minister Freundel Stuart on last month’s International rating agency Moody’s downgrade of Barbados. “However, the downgrade has not altered any of the facilities to which Barbadians are entitled and to which they have access. Life continues,” he stressed. “We have a comfortable foreign exchange position at the moment; we…
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January 8, 2013684
EDITORIAL: Strengthening CARICOM/Cuba cooperation
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – n a pace-setting move the Guyana Parliament last week unanimously approved a motion to record for posterity the “special relationship” that country shares with Cuba. As Guyana’s Foreign Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, noted, the relationship with Cuba dates back to more than four decades when Guyana was still a British colony, and prior to the 1962 United States-imposed…
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January 7, 2013699
Commonwealth or Europe? Why a choice?
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The New Year started with yet another welcome affirmation from the British Government of the importance of the 54-nation Commonwealth. Hugo Swire, who was appointed Minister of State for the Commonwealth last summer, published an Opinion in the Daily Telegraph in London on January 2 in which he said that the Commonwealth “is an important institution” that…
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January 4, 2013747
Open Campus hits hard times
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The financial problems affecting the University of the West Indies have trickled down to the UWI Open Campus programme. Reports indicate that the Open Campus which operates in 16 nations is owed millions by contributing countries and, as a result, is struggling to pay its bills. The major defaulters, according to a source, were the Eastern Caribbean countries which…
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January 4, 2013808
Barbados and San Marino sign Double Taxation Agreement
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados says it has signed an Avoidance of Double Taxation agreement with the Republic of San Marino as well the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to Taxes on income. A government statement said that the agreement was signed in New York last month and formalises the bilateral agreement which was initialled in July 2012. Barbados…
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January 3, 2013744
Still hanging in the balance
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Looking back, there were several issues last year that have been left hanging in the balance that one can only hope will be addressed this year. REDjet came with a lot of fanfare and hoopla, creating major excitement in a region whose population has begged on bended knees over the years for cheaper options to travel. Many…
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January 2, 2013703
No end to Middle East problems
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – THE YEAR 2012 has seen challenges and opportunities, new beginnings and familiar setbacks, victories and defeats. The most glaring example is the attempts by the United Nations to end the bloody 21-month-old Syrian conflict through diplomacy which have been a resounding failure. There is little reason to expect a quick change given the Russian-United States disagreement on…
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January 2, 2013707
EDITORIAL: LIAT needs all the lift it can get
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – When four Caribbean leaders met in Bridgetown last Friday to discuss the future of the regional airline LIAT, they sounded upbeat, even with the times continuing to be turbulent for the airline industry worldwide. It is evident, after hearing not only the political directorate, but moreso the airline’s chairman Jean Holder and chief executive officer Ian Brunton,…
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March 12, 2012420
CARICOM LAUNCHES CONSUMER PROTECTION SERVICE
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has launched an online system which allows consumers in 14 Member States to alert authorities on dangerous products which they detect in the market. It is called the CARICOM Rapid Exchange System for Dangerous non-food Consumer Goods, (CARREX) and was developed in response to concerns voiced by consumer bodies of…
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December 29, 2011385
CARICOM electoral observer mission to Jamaica
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was invited by the Government of Jamaica to establish a Mission to observe the General Elections to be held on December 29, 2011. In response to that invitation, a seven (7) member Observer Group under the leadership of Mr. Winston Estwick of Barbados, was selected. Mr. Estwick and three (3)…
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