Barbados

  • January 8, 2013
    816

    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, 2013
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    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, 2013
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    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, 2013
    839

    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, 2013
    873

    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, 2013
    935

    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, 2013
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    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, 2013
    837

    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, 2013
    830

    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, 2012
    543

    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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