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Government launches investigation into latest oil spill
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas government says it has launched an investigation into an oil spill incident over the weekend even as Environment Minister Kenred Dorsett said that the spill had been contained. Dorsett said that more than 200 gallons of fuel had been released into the sea at the Freeport Harbour due to an incident involving an overflow…
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‘TCL can’t keep raising prices’
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Trinidad Cement Ltd (TCL) cannot just keep raising prices every year, ANSA McAL's chief operating officer Gerry Brooks has said. Brooks told reporters on Friday at the ANSA Coatings Award ceremony, Hyatt Regency (Trinidad) hotel, Port of Spain that what the company needs is a restructuring plan with a clear business plan. Brooks said the…
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Cadiz in Bahamas for regional airlift talks
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Minister of Tourism Stephen Cadiz is in the Bahamas for the Caribbean Travel Marketplace and to convene with the Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) Aviation Committee and discuss opportunities for increase of airlift to the region. The minister, upon landing at the Lyndon Pindling International Airport, headed directly to a meeting of the Council of Tourism…
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Regional leaders urged to convene summit on tourism
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – Regional tourism officials are calling on Caribbean heads of government to convene a regional summit on tourism within the next six months to discuss key issues affecting the industry. In a resolution approved by the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association's (CHTA) board of directors on Sunday, the Caribbean leaders are being urged to consider with industry…
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Crime could cripple regional tourism, says Bahamas PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica- Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie has issued a warning that there is no bigger threat to the future viability of tourism in the region than crime. Addressing delegates at the opening ceremony of the Caribbean Travel Marketplace at the Atlantis on Paradise Island in The Bahamas, Christie took time out to speak on the escalation in criminal violence,…
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Trinidad PM comments on significance of President Obama’s inauguration
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government Monday described as “ironic” the inauguration of President Barack Obama on the day the United States observe a public holiday marking the birthday of slain civil rights leader, Martin Luther King. “The inauguration of Barack Obama as the President of the United States realizes the dream of equality expressed…
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Obama hope – Jamaican diaspora holds high expectations for immigration reform
KINGSTON, Jamaica – The next four years are being touted as the “grand legacy phase” for United States (US) President Barack Obama and some influential Jamaicans in the diaspora are suggesting that the signposts already erected by the country's 44th commander-in-chief augur well for their countrymen living in America. As Obama prepared to deliver his second inaugural address, one expert…
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Region depends on Obama’s economy fix
KINGSTON, Jamaica – HEAD OF the Economics Division at the University of Technology (UTech), Sharon Nelson, says United States President Barack Obama's feverish push for positive economic growth in his second term in office could provide a glimmer of hope for Caribbean economies. Nelson reasoned that as president of the world's largest economy, Obama's policies are designed to improve the…
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Of pledges and reality on aid for Haiti
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – BOTH THE President of Haiti Michel Martelly, and Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Albert Ramdin, have separately lamented the continuing defaults in aid pledges for the reconstruction of earthquake devastated Haiti. Their interventions to lament this sad reality coincided with the third anniversary of the unprecedented wreckage of a country and single…
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EU continues to fund Caribbean projects
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Despite the economic difficulties in the Eurozone area, the European Union (EU) will continue to fund projects in the Caribbean, Christian Leffler, Director of Latin America Section in the European External Action Service said yesterday. “We will continue to co-operate with all our partners throughout the Caribbean and the African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) world.…
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