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  • July 10, 2013
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    Barbados economy contracts during the first half of 2013

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados economy contracted during the first six months of the year with the main foreign exchange sectors also suffering a decline, according to figures released by the Central Bank of Barbados (CBB) on Tuesday. The CBB said that the local economy grew by just 0.6 per cent and among the priorities for the future will…

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  • July 10, 2013
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    Politicking T&T/CARICOM style

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – PRIME MINISTER Kamla Persad-Bissessar is undoubtedly relieved to have behind her the hosting of the 34th Caricom Summit so that she could be more fully focused in what she seems to relish so much—party politicking against ALL opposition comers—even within her United National Congress. This time around, for immediate attention on her UNC’s radar is…

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  • July 10, 2013
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    More CARICOM spin will get us nowhere fast

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – JUST before last week's 34th meeting of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Conference of Heads of Government in Port of Spain, we bemoaned in this space that CARICOM, some five years after the eruption of the global economic crisis, had still not formulated a regional response. The rationale for a regional response is two-fold. First, joint action with…

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  • July 10, 2013
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    Tornado Strikes

    JOHN’S, Antigua – Residents made several reports of tornadoes and watersspouts touching down on the island, as Tropical Storm Chantal passed to the south of Antigua yesterday afternoon. OBSERVER media newsroom received eyewitness reports of tornadoes forming in the Lightfoot community and causing damage to both the Camp Blizzard army base and the Jumby Bay Resort on offshore Long Island.…

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  • July 10, 2013
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    Storm brings showers to T&T

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – TROPICAL Storm Chantal, which churned its way through the Caribbean yesterday, brought  brief but heavy showers to Trinidad and Tobago. Both islands were relatively event-free on Monday night while yesterday morning the rains began as a drizzle which then turned into full-blown thundershowers around just after midday. There were no reports of flooding.

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  • July 10, 2013
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    Southern village hardest hit by storm’s passage

    ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC — Tropical Storm Chantal left Dominica with a trail of destruction in the southern part of this Windward island on Tuesday before churning out into the Caribbean Sea and setting its sights on Haiti and the Dominican Republic. By 5.00 pm (2100 GMT), a tropical storm warning was discontinued after a day of strong gusts left some…

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  • July 10, 2013
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    Dominica mopping up after passage of Tropical Storm Chantal

    ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Electricity was slowing being restored to several parts of Dominica on Wednesday as authorities began the task of counting the cost of the damage caused by Tropical Storm Chantal 24 hours earlier. Public Works and Infrastructural Development Minister Rayburn Blackmore, speaking on the state-owned DBS radio Wednesday, said the authorities will be assessing the damage “and…

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  • July 9, 2013
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    Freedom park to celebrate Mandela

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -The great South African leader and freedom fighter Nelson Mandela must be celebrated in life and in his ultimate departure of death. As such, Minister of Education, Science, Technology and Innovation, Ronald Jones, has asked that the Nelson Mandela Freedom Park, to be constructed at University Drive, Cave Hill, be a place of “spiritual reverence and peace”, so…

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  • July 9, 2013
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    Opposition leader dismisses statement from acting Police Commissioner regarding “emailgate” scandal

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC –Opposition Leader Dr. Keith Rowley Monday said he was “Curious” as to how Acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams reached a conclusion that e-mails which he read in Parliament purporting to show senior government ministers involved in a plot to undermine the judiciary, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the media were fakes.…

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  • July 9, 2013
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    Central Bank says local economy grew by nearly two per cent during first quarter of 2013

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago economy grew by nearly two per cent in the first three months of the year and Central bank Governor Jwala Rambarran urged local investors to get more involved in the economic future of the oil rich twin island republic. “I commend these business leaders for their vote of confidence in…

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