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  • April 10, 2013
    773

    Region must keep up with technology

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate – Minister of Industry, International Business, Commerce and Small Business Development Donville Inniss says the Caribbean has to keep up with technological changes in order to take full advantage of doing business in a global village. “I sense that the days of credit cards with magnetic strips may be going the way of the pay phone or…

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  • April 10, 2013
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    EU putting resources to develop innovative youth

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate -The European Union (EU) is funding programmes and providing resources to ensure that young creative minds are given more opportunities to develop their craft. Working with the government, the hope is to further enhance the resources within the Fine Arts Division at the Barbados Community College while calling on teachers to explore multiple intelligences and varied teaching…

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  • April 10, 2013
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    Opposition rejects new moves by Guatemala to claim Belizean territory

    BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – The main opposition People’s United Party (PUP) has rejected the latest move by Guatemala showing Belize to be part of the Central American country. Guatemala plans to distribute four million new passports with the map showing the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country as part of its territory over the next decade. The opposition party has warned that…

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  • April 10, 2013
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    Myrie hearing comes to a close in Trinidad

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate – The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) will give its ruling in the matter of Shanique Myrie against the Government of Barbados at a later date, which is yet to be announced. The matter came to a close yesterday at the CCJ’s Headquarters in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, with President of the CCJ Dennis Byron adjourning the matter so…

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  • April 9, 2013
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    Bird slams late British PM

    ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Former Antigua & Barbuda Prime Minister Lester Bird believes that the late Margaret Thatcher was most befitting of the tag “Iron Lady” – a name she got for the way she operated as Britain’s prime minister. He told OBSERVER Radio that while she influenced world politics significantly, Britain’s past PM was very instrumental in retaining apartheid…

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  • April 9, 2013
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    Former Premier leads tributes to Britain’s Iron Lady

    HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC — Former Premier Sir John Swan has led the tributes to Margaret Thatcher, the “Iron Lady” of British politics who died on Monday aged 87 following a stroke, crediting her with helping Bermuda become a global force in business. Sir John, who led the now defunct United Bermuda Party as leader of this British Overseas Territory from…

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  • April 9, 2013
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    Bahamas pays tribute to late British prime minister

    NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas Monday joined the international community in paying tribute to Margaret Thatcher, described as Britain’s most dominant prime minister since Winston Churchill. Thatcher, 87, had been in declining health for some years, suffering from dementia. She died peacefully following a stroke. Observers said the death of Sir Denis Thatcher, her husband of 50 years and…

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  • April 9, 2013
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    Trinidad PM describes death of former British PM as “a profound sense of loss”

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar Monday described the death of Britain’s former head of government, Margaret Thatcher as “ a profound sense of loss”. “The United Kingdom and indeed the world, has lost a woman who, throughout her life, has been a valuable contributor to local and global efforts to improve the well-being of…

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  • April 9, 2013
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    Margaret Thatcher: economic transformation, political polarization

    KINGSTN, Jamaica – MRS Margaret Thatcher, who secured her place in British history as the first and only female prime minister of Great Britain, died yesterday at the age of 87 years. Referred to as the “Iron Lady”, the epithet given to her by cold war Soviet Union, Mrs Thatcher ruled for 11 divisive years (May 1979 – November 1990),…

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  • April 9, 2013
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    EDITORIAL – Take Thatcher’s grit

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – Whatever your view, good or bad, of Margaret Thatcher, the former British prime minister (PM) who died on Monday, there is no gainsaying that she was a transformative figure whose influence transcended the United Kingdom (UK). Further, in our current circumstance, Baroness Thatcher, her politics, and the way she forced Britain to confront its economic demons have…

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