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  • January 9, 2013
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    Flights to Antigua on the increase, says Maginley

    ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Two international airlines have committed scheduled flights to Antigua, increasing total airlift to the country, Tourism Minister John Maginley reported. German airline Condor and Italian airline Blue Panorama both have scheduled flights to Antigua for the current winter season. Maginley, speaking during the Budget debate in Parliament yesterday, was responding to charges by the opposition that…

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  • January 9, 2013
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    Opposition outlines plans for revitalising economy

    ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The main opposition Antigua Labour Party (ALP) has unveiled a “rescue plan” for the island that it says will generate an additional EC$100 million (One EC dollar = US$0.37 cents) annually. Opposition Leader Gaston Browne responding to the 2012-13 tax free national budget presented to Parliament last month by Finance Minister Harold Lovell, said the…

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  • January 9, 2013
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    Residents raise health concerns as government develops geothermal project

    ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – The Dominica government has confirmed that experts are being brought into the country as it seeks to allay the health concerns of the residents in the Roseau Valley where most of the geothermal projects are being undertaken. Minister for Employment, Trade, Industry and Diaspora Affairs Dr. Collin McIntyre, who is also the parliamentary representative for the…

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  • January 9, 2013
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    PNP, JLP rap US newspaper editorial

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – AN editorial in the Chicago Tribune — one of the largest and most respected newspapers in the United States — which described the Jamaican economy as being in worse shape than that of Greece and an example of what could happen to countries that continue to pile up debt, has been viewed as inaccurate from representatives of…

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  • January 9, 2013
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    Is Jamaica the Greece of the Western Hemisphere?

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – YESTERDAY the Chicago Tribune (President Obama's major hometown newspaper and one of the top five newspapers in the US) wrote an editorial with the title “Jamaica's Debt Hurricane”, subtitled “The Greece of the Western Hemisphere”. The editorial argued that Jamaica, like Greece, “illustrates the catastrophic effects of borrowing way too much, and the painful choices that follow”.…

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  • January 9, 2013
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    EDITORIAL – Jamaica’s fiscal cliff

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – Judging from last Sunday evening's hunky-dory speech by Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, our Government may not have noticed that Jamaica is hanging precariously over, according to the American coinage, a fiscal cliff. Or, the PM has deliberately chosen to ignore the reality and sell Jamaicans a false sense of security. In the absence of ignorance of…

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  • January 9, 2013
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    Unions mum following talks with Prime Minister Anthony

    CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Trade union officials were keeping mum on Tuesday, one day after Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony indicated that while his government is anxious to bring closure to the wage and salary negotiations involving public servants it is not going to endorse salaries that would force the island into the clutches of the International Monetary Fund…

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  • January 9, 2013
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    Union threatens island-wide strike

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados Workers Union (BWU) is threatening a nationwide strike if the telecommunications company, Cable and Wireless (Barbados) Limited, does not retract dismissal letters sent to nearly 100 workers last week. The BWU has also given the telecommunication company until Wednesday to rescind the letters. Last week, Cable and Wireless (Barbados) Limited, which operates here under…

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  • January 9, 2013
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    LIME knocks BWU

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbados’ largest telecommunications company, LIME, has taken the Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU) to task for threatening to call a national strike over job redundancies at that company. The union on Monday called on LIME to withdraw the 97 letters of termination issued to workers by today or face industrial action. On January 2 LIME announced the laying off…

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  • January 9, 2013
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    T&T, Guyana in move to boost food security

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Devant Maharaj, Minister of Food Production, told the T&T Guardian that a draft Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is being prepared to bolster relations between Guyana and T&T with respect to food security. He was speaking at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the opening of the car park for the Norris Deonarine Wholesale Market, Macoya. He added:…

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