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  • January 21, 2013
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    Chen gives CXC thumbs up for entrepreneurship

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – Wayne Chen, president of the Jamaica Employers' Federation (JEF), has welcomed the Caribbean Examinations Council's (CXC) plans to introduce subjects related to entrepreneurship as part of efforts to boost the economies of the region. Speaking with The Gleaner yesterday, Chen said it was an initiative for which he had been lobbying for some time. “In fact, just…

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  • January 21, 2013
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    CXC to beef up security BRIDGETOWN

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -THE CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL (CXC) is taking steps to reduce incidents of fraud. Speaking to the DAILY NATION after a service to mark the organisation’s 40th anniversary at St Matthias Anglican Church yesterday evening, senior assistant registrar for examinations and security Susan Giles reported that they were introducing an audit system. “The school-based assessments, we are auditing them.…

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  • January 21, 2013
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    ALP leader to Vere Bird III: ‘Not on my ticket’

    ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Political Leader of the Antigua Labour Party (ALP) Gaston Browne has stoutly rejected the request by Attorney Vere Bird III to contest the next general elections on the ALP ticket. Browne, in a brief conversation with OBSERVER Media, said, “Not on my ticket,” when questioned about Bird’s interest. Bird made his interest known during a branch…

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  • January 21, 2013
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    Opposition leader called on to apologise to Speaker of the House

    CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC-Attorney’s representing Speaker of the House of Assembly, Peter Foster, have demanded an apology from Opposition Leader Stephenson King over remarks in which he accused Foster of conflict of interest surrounding the inquiry into the St. Lucia Fire Service. In a statement last week King claimed that Foster’s law firm had been hired as Counsel to the…

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  • January 21, 2013
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    Toward greater energy self-sufficiency

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – ONE of the things that we would like to wish for Barbados in 2013 is that the energy policy that is being put in place should start to bring substantial benefits for the island and its people. Energy is one of those commodities that stand to build or break a country depending on what place the country…

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  • January 21, 2013
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    Salvage company says roughly 1,000 gallons of oil spills into ocean in northern Bahamas

    NASSAU, Bahamas – Crews are trying to contain roughly 1,000 gallons (3,785 litres) of oil that spilled into the Atlantic off the northernmost island in the Bahamas, according to the owner of a salvage company in the archipelago. Raymond Darville of Overseas Marine Group Ltd. said the spill occurred early Sunday near an oil and gas storage facility in Freeport…

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  • January 21, 2013
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    Some CARICOM countries trying to block Guyanese goods – Ramsammy

    GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Agriculture Minister Dr. Leslie Ramsammy says some CARICOM nations have been operating less than neighbourly by putting up non-tariff barriers to Guyanese products. At a conference for stakeholders in the coconut industry last week he told those gathered that it was an issue the government has to tackle aggressively. “They study us more than we study (ourselves);…

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  • January 21, 2013
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    CARICOM rum producers in talks with US officials

    BRIDGETOWN—Caribbean Community (Caricom) rum producing countries are holding high-level talks with the United States on resolving issues surrounding the rum industry in the region, Prime Minister Freundel Stuart announced. A government statement said that Prime Minister Stuart made the announcement as he addressed a ceremony unveiling a commemorative plaque for Mount Gay Distilleries’ New Aging Bond earlier this week. Stuart…

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  • January 21, 2013
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    Ruling party denies rift as Bahamians get ready to vote in a national referendum

    NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – Chairman of the ruling Progressive Liberal party (PLP) Bradley Roberts is denying suggestions of a rift within the administration regarding the January 28 referendum on the regulation and taxation of web shop gaming and the establishment of a national lottery. “It is well documented that I support a yes vote in the upcoming referendum and I…

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  • January 21, 2013
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    Election climate heats up in Grenada, Barbados, St Kitts

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – INSTEAD of possibly two changes in government shortly within the 15-member Caribbean Community, as originally assessed, there could well be a third later in the year. Changes forecast, and based on public opinion polls, point to expected termination of current first-term administrations with two first-time prime ministers in Barbados and Grenada. But currently, amid growing political challenges…

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