Barbados
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January 9, 2013876
Union threatens island-wide strike
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados Workers Union (BWU) is threatening a nationwide strike if the telecommunications company, Cable and Wireless (Barbados) Limited, does not retract dismissal letters sent to nearly 100 workers last week. The BWU has also given the telecommunication company until Wednesday to rescind the letters. Last week, Cable and Wireless (Barbados) Limited, which operates here under…
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January 9, 2013848
LIME knocks BWU
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbados’ largest telecommunications company, LIME, has taken the Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU) to task for threatening to call a national strike over job redundancies at that company. The union on Monday called on LIME to withdraw the 97 letters of termination issued to workers by today or face industrial action. On January 2 LIME announced the laying off…
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January 8, 2013902
Prime Minister urges voters to return DLP to power in next general election
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Prime Minister Freundel Stuart, hinting at a general election “which is not too far away” is appealing to supporters ensure that the St. Andrew’s seat is won by his ruling Democratic Labour Party (DLP). The last general election was held in January 2008 and the main opposition Barbados Labour Party (BLP) has been calling on Prime…
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January 8, 2013871
Increased cases of dengue fever
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados has recorded a significant increase in dengue cases last year even as health authorities were reporting a decline in confirmed cases during a four week period leading up to mid-December last year. Official figures released here show that for the four-week period leading up to December 15, last year, there were 43 confirmed cases of…
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January 8, 2013849
Official welcomes WHO draft on NCDs
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A senior Barbados health official has described as a “major achievement” the recent agreement by member countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) to draft a comprehensive global monitoring framework for the prevention and control of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD). Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Joy St. John, who is also the Chairperson of the WHO Executive Board,…
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January 8, 2013866
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, 2013842
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, 2013877
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, 2013898
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, 2013963
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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