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CARICOM Foreign ministers on fact finding mission to Turks and Caicos
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) foreign ministers are to visit the Turks and Caicos Islands on a fact finding mission next week. Bahamas Foreign Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell is chairing the grouping that includes his colleagues from Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis and Haiti. A brief statement issued here said that the ministers “have embarked on a fact-finding…
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CARICOM crabs in a barrel
KINGSTON, Jamaica – WE have never for one moment deluded ourselves into believing that the signing of the 1973 Treaty of Chaguaramas — that governs Caribbean Community (CARICOM) relations — would have ushered us overnight to the Promised Land of regional integration. In fact, we knew clearly that we would only achieve the ideal of a single economic space, binding…
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Khan: Integrity Commission head will resign
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Prospective members of the Integrity Commission may not want to serve under the leadership of chairman Ken Gordon, attorney Israel Khan, SC, said yesterday. Khan was commenting on the implications of a meeting between Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley and Gordon, which took place at Gordon’s Glencoe home days before Rowley presented his no-confidence motion…
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‘SIDESHOWS’
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Lead investigator in the “emailgate” case, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Mervyn Richardson yesterday called for an end to what he described as the “sideshows” by various paid computer experts, making pronouncements on the same e-mails he is investigating. While Richardson said the parallel, privately funded findings were not interfering with his own investigation, he…
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Opposition Leader responds to allegation of conspiracy to remove government
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Opposition Leader Dr. Keith Rowley says Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar and members of her coalition People’s Partnership government were engaged in “self defence” as the controversy over the “emailgate” scandal continues here unabated. Rowley, addressing a public meeting of the ain opposition People’s National Movement (PNM) in the capital on Tuesday night, said…
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Opposition warns of disobeying laws to stage street protests
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC – Leader of the main opposition People’s Action Movement (PAM), Shawn Richards, is warning that people will “ultimately take the matter to seek justice into their own hands” after the police denied a request for a march next week. Richards said that St. Kitts-Nevis is heading towards situation where people, who believe their rights are “being…
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Unions criticise coalition government, plan massive demonstrations
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Labour leaders Wednesday criticised the coalition People’s Partnership government of Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar describing it as a “spiteful and ruthless” administration that has trampled the rights of workers. They gave Persad Bissessar, who in 2010 participated in Labour Day march here, a failing grade, adding that after three years of being in…
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Poverty and the minimum wage
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – At the end of last month, a high-level international panel, which had been meeting under the auspices of the United Nations to look at the world beyond the 2015 end of timetable of the Millennium Development Goals, submitted its report to that body. The 27-member panel—14 women and 13 men—as internationally diverse as possible and jointly chaired…
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Late, but needed
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Although it is a case of closing the barn door after the horse has bolted, the Insurance Bill 2013 is a welcome piece of legislation which we hope will eliminate the possibility of any future recurrence along the lines of the CL Financial disaster. The unanimous parliamentary support for the bill reflects the widespread view…
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Coast Guard: South Florida relatives fueling Haitian migrant smuggling
Family members in South Florida are possibly behind a dangerous new trend in the Caribbean: the smuggling of undocumented Haitian immigrants from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico, a senior Coast Guard official said Wednesday. “The new thing that’s happening is in the Mona Passage between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico and it’s being fueled, we think, by money…
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