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  • March 28, 2013
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    FBI wary of T&T’s security agencies

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Federal investigators in the United States said yesterday they will not be sharing any information on an ongoing probe involving a senior government minister and his son. Sources said both the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Internal Revenue Services (IRS) were reluctant to share information with local law enforcement because they do not…

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  • March 28, 2013
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    Prime Minister remains mum on FIFA soccer probe

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar says she will not be rushed into making any public statement on international reports that her National Security Minister Austin “Jack” Warner may be implicated in a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) probe involving soccer’s global governing body. “I will not rely on published reports in the media, but…

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  • March 28, 2013
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    RSS officials meeting in Antigua

    ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – A one-day meeting of the Regional Security Council (RSS) of Ministers began here Wednesday amid concerns that some member territories were defaulting on the financial contributions to the regional security grouping. Canada’s High Commissioner to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, Richard Hanley, did not name the defaulting countries, nor the amount in arrears. “In the…

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  • March 28, 2013
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    Regional catastrophe risk organisation offering scholarships

    St. John’s Antigua- The Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) is offering two scholarships for Citizens of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) and CCRIF member countries. The scholarships are for candidates desirous of pursuing a master’s degree in one of the areas identified below, which are not available at regional universities but which are available at universities in the United Kingdom, United…

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  • March 28, 2013
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    Jamaica’s energy problem needs urgent attention

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – A FORMER head of the country's utilities regulation body has warned that Jamaica's energy problem now requires the same urgency as the lottery scam and has proposed a draft of measures he says can help to address the issue. With stakeholders divided between the use of coal as against liquified natural gas (LNG), J. Paul Morgan, the…

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    IMF delays hurting us – Phillips hopes to strike deal soon amid concerns in market

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – ONE WEEK after Finance Minister Dr Peter Phillips disclosed that contingent talks between the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank were holding up the approval of an extended fund facility (EFF), he now says the country is being negatively impacted by the delay. Phillips, who yesterday announced at a Jamaica House…

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  • March 28, 2013
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    EDITORIAL – Damp squib from Cabinet retreat

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – The People's National Party (PNP) socialists of the 1970s may have been dismal at managing the economy, but they knew how to rally people to their cause. The PNP of the current era, in so far as we can tell, has lost the art of mobilisation. So, the Cabinet has just emerged from a three-day special session…

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  • March 28, 2013
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    EDITORIAL: Financial sector key to economy

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The development of this country as an international financial centre carried through during the first Tom Adams administration in the 1970s and was part of a major restructuring of a critical area of the Barbados economy. That sector was important then and it is important now! By the early ’70s sugar had lost its place as our…

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    OUR CARIBBEAN: Reflecting on challenges facing Barbadians

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Tomorrow, as faithful Christians worship and observe the significance of Good Friday while preparing to celebrate the Resurrection, the people of Barbados in general will be particularly cognisant of a prevailing social and economic mood that reflects varying worrying concerns and negative messages in the media. The February 21 general elections came and went with the political…

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    Central Bank Governor outlines new strategies for sustained growth

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Central Bank Governor Dr. DeLisle Worrell Wednesday urged Barbados to seek ways of increasing foreign exchange earnings and called also on the government and the private sector to invest in “creating new high quality productive capacity, improving productivity, and maintaining and upgrading infrastructure”. Addressing the luncheon meeting of the Barbados Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI),…

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