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  • January 8, 2013
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    Group wants de la Bastide to be President

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Michael de la Bastide is being nominated as a candidate to be T&T’s fifth President by the 851 members of a Facebook group. It was created by De La Bastide's brother, Peter. The electoral college will vote on the presidency on February 15 and many believe the former chief justice and former president of the…

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  • January 8, 2013
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    PM urges nationals to buy shares in local bank

    KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonslaves is urging nationals to purchase shares in the Bank of St. Vincent and the Grenadines that on Monday launched an initial public offering (IPO) hoping to raise expansion capital of more than EC$17 million (One EC dollar = US$0.37 cents). The former state-owned bank, is offering two million shares at…

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  • January 8, 2013
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    Prime Minister urges voters to return DLP to power in next general election

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Prime Minister Freundel Stuart, hinting at a general election “which is not too far away” is appealing to supporters ensure that the St. Andrew’s seat is won by his ruling Democratic Labour Party (DLP). The last general election was held in January 2008 and the main opposition Barbados Labour Party (BLP) has been calling on Prime…

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  • January 8, 2013
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    Increased cases of dengue fever

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados has recorded a significant increase in dengue cases last year even as health authorities were reporting a decline in confirmed cases during a four week period leading up to mid-December last year. Official figures released here show that for the four-week period leading up to December 15, last year, there were 43 confirmed cases of…

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  • January 8, 2013
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    Prime Minister warns of consequences in meeting increased salary demands of public servants

    CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – The St. Lucia government says while it is anxious to bring closure to the wage and salary negotiations involving public servants it is not going to endorse salaries that would further affect the economic situation in the country and force the island into the clutches of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In a nationwide radio…

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  • January 8, 2013
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    Official welcomes WHO draft on NCDs

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A senior Barbados health official has described as a “major achievement” the recent agreement by member countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) to draft a comprehensive global monitoring framework for the prevention and control of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD). Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Joy St. John, who is also the Chairperson of the WHO Executive Board,…

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  • January 8, 2013
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    Messages on “Insecure Haiti” Refuted

    Port-au-Prince, (Prensa Latina) The Communications Ministry of Haiti leads today a campaign refuting a list the US and European media circulate placing Haiti among the most unsafe countries in the world, an allegation it declares false and to prove otherwise it quotes reports from different international bodies. For instance, those sources remind that in Central America and the Caribbean, countries…

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  • January 8, 2013
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    EDITORIAL – Don’t leave the retreat until there is a plan

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – In a broadcast Sunday evening, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller provided her account of the stewardship of the Government in the year since its election. She followed up yesterday with newspaper advertisements in her role as president of the People's National Party. This newspaper welcomes these initiatives. Reporting to constituents is an important component of leadership. However,…

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  • January 8, 2013
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    PM comments on Barbados’ downgrade

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – No country rejoices at being downgraded, says Prime Minister Freundel Stuart on last month’s International rating agency Moody’s downgrade of Barbados. “However, the downgrade has not altered any of the facilities to which Barbadians are entitled and to which they have access. Life continues,” he stressed. “We have a comfortable foreign exchange position at the moment; we…

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  • January 8, 2013
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    EDITORIAL: Strengthening CARICOM/Cuba cooperation

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – n a pace-setting move the Guyana Parliament last week unanimously approved a motion to record for posterity the “special relationship” that country shares with Cuba. As Guyana’s Foreign Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, noted, the relationship with Cuba dates back to more than four decades when Guyana was still a British colony, and prior to the 1962 United States-imposed…

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