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CARICOM Finance Ministers tackle growth and development
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Finance Ministers of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) reviewed a range of economic and financial issues at the Fifteenth Meeting of CARICOM’s Council for Finance and Planning (COFAP) at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Trinidad and Tobago on Wednesday. The Council paid particular attention to the state of regional economies and addressed implementation issues relating…
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CARICOM Change Team pleased with Guyana Consultations
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Change Facilitation Team based at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat has expressed satisfaction at the response by participants at the Guyana national consultations on a Five-year Strategic Plan for the Community. The Strategic Plan is a critical part of the Reform process within CARICOM, which has been initiated by the Conference of Heads…
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Couva Hospital on quake zone
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Guardian – Construction of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s prized $1.5 billion Couva Children’s Hospital is in jeopardy as seismic and structural experts have called for all work there to be aborted. This is because the hospital and multi-training facility is being built near the Central Range earthquake fault line, which experts say is in danger of…
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T&T gov’t seeking advice on deferring local gov’t polls
(Trinidad Express) Government is seeking legal advice on the possibility of postponing the local government elections, sources said yesterday. If the government moves for a postponement this would be a complete reversal of the Prime Minister’s earlier pledges of her People’s Partnership Government to hold elections when they are constitutionally due by October 26. The fundamental rethink has come in…
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TRINIDAD-ENVIRONMENT-Meeting between PM and environmental group ends on a sour note
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Aug 9, CMC – A meeting late Thursday between Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar and an environment group opposed to a section of the multi-billion dollar highway south of here, ended with both parties giving contrasting viewpoints on its outcome. The Highway Re-route Movement (HRM), led by environmentalist Dr. Wayne Kublalsingh had requested the meeting in…
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ST. LUCIA-POLITICS-Chile wants enhanced relationship with OECS
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Chile’s Ambassador to the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), Eduardo Bonilla has affirmed his country’s support for an enhanced relationship with the regional grouping. Bonilla, the first Ambassador of Chile to the OECS, expressed confidence in the ability of both sides to realize a last a fruitful cooperation agenda which could include areas such…
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Digicel to abolish US, Caricom roaming charges
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Observer -Digicel will eliminate roaming charges for clients travelling within the US and Caricom, effective October 1, 2013. Phillip Paulwell, Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) president, announced the agreement with the mobile telecoms giant throughout the region on Wednesday at the opening ceremony of the joint CTU, International Telecommunications Caribbean Ministerial Forum on ICT in Port of Spain, Trinidad.…
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Organised communities can stop farm thieves
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Observer – NOT for the first time, the annual Denbigh show was held in the long shadow cast by that scourge of modern Jamaican agriculture, farm theft, stylishly referred to as praedial larceny. Farmers have to deal with droughts, floods, extreme price fluctuations, and the high cost of inputs. But talk to any producer of food crops and…
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JAMAICA-POLITICS-Opposition wins by-election
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has won Thursday’s by-election in the Cassia Park Division of the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC) – the municipal body which runs the affairs of the capital city. The JLP's Beverly Prince defeated and Sheryn Bromfield of the People's National Party's (PNP). With just over ten thousand registered voters…
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