Barbados

  • February 4, 2013
    907

    BLP confident of victory

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The main opposition Barbados Labour Party (BLP) has launched its campaign for the February 21 general elections promising voters strong leadership to deal with the island’s socio-economic problems over the next five years. BLP leader and former prime minister Owen Arthur Saturday night told party faithful that he was offering “a leadership that has been tried,…

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  • February 1, 2013
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    Watch ‘mischief’ now that PM named the date

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – SO PRIME Minister Freundel Stuart has finally announced the date for next month’s general election. And he did so with a ‘scoop’ (as we say in the media) by upstaging all and sundry, including real and pretentious political gurus, in naming February 21 as the day when Barbadians will trek to polling booths to elect a new…

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  • February 1, 2013
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    Coastal hazard alert systems in place for the region

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Caribbean countries will be automatically alerted in the event of any major differences in sea level rise or major displacements due to earthquakes. Acting Director of the Coastal Zone Management Unit (CZMU), Dr. Lorna Inniss, speaking at the launch of Caribe Wave 2013, said the system was important given the fact that tsunamis were waves that…

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  • January 31, 2013
    865

    EDITORIAL: Egypt two years after the Arab Spring

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Late Chairman Mao Tse-Tung of China reportedly once said that without the loneliness and desolation of winter one would not appreciate the warmth and splendour of spring. This seems not to be the case with Egyptians and North Koreans. After initial flashes of goodwill from the new leadership in North Korea and Egypt, the situation appears to…

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  • January 31, 2013
    937

    Stuart: Best is yet to come

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Prime Minister Freundel Stuart and leader of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP), says that the best is yet to come from that political party. His comments came as he spoke yesterday at the Barbados Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s luncheon at the Hilton Hotel, the first for 2013 and ahead of the mass rally that DLP had…

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  • January 30, 2013
    895

    Experts: PM’s timing curious

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – POLITICAL SCIENTISTS Dr George Belle and Peter Wickham yesterday weighed in on the announcement by Prime Minister Freundel Stuart that the general election will be on February 21. Dr Belle maintained that the election was “unnecessarily delayed”. “We knew that the Constitution and the law allowed him to call it after the five years had passed since the last…

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  • January 30, 2013
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    Barbados to elect new government on February 21

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbadians go to the polls on February 21 to elect a new government ended months of speculation as to when Prime Minister Freundel Stuart would seek a new five year term in office. A Barbados Government Information Service (BGIS) statement said that Stuart, who took over the leadership of the ruling Democratic Labour Party (DLP) after…

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  • January 29, 2013
    868

    EDITORIAL: In the battle against crime and violence

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The latest of studies commissioned by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) have underscored the serious negative impact that crime and violence are having on economies of the Caribbean at a time when economic growth with job-creation continues to be elusive for  a number of CARICOM states. Not just the IDB, but also the World Bank and our…

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  • January 29, 2013
    834

    $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
    881

    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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