Barbados

  • January 23, 2013
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    Terrorism spreads to Algeria

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – ON SUNDAY, United States President Barack Obama was sworn in for his second term in office. He will have to shoulder the power and burden of the presidency in an increasingly turbulent world darkened by domestic discord and crises abroad. Obama has already said that he would root his second term in the crusade to build a…

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  • January 22, 2013
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    Prime Minister hints at naming date for general election soon

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has hinted that he is likely to name the date for the next general elections within a few weeks time. But he says he will only announce the date after he meets with the Governor General Elliott Belgrave. “Let there be no mistake that the (opposition) Barbados Labour Party has been calling…

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  • January 21, 2013
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    Remembering men of influence

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – TODAY WE REFLECT on the life and times of the Right Excellent Errol Walton Barrow, one of this island’s most important and influential leaders of the last century. Now a National Hero, Barrow will be remembered for many things – as Premier and Prime Minister and the man who led much of the social engineering that transformed…

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  • January 21, 2013
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    EDITORIAL: A search for compromise

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – All Barbadians will breathe a huge sigh of relief now that there has been a settlement in the LIME dispute, and all parties at the negotiating table should be commended for their willingness to sit down and calmly, if perhaps a little belatedly, look at the issues and search for compromise. Our Prime Minister deserves kudos for…

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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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    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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    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 18, 2013
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    Cave Hill Campus celebrating Golden Jubilee

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Yesterday, the institution launched their year-long activities under the theme “Path to Prosperity”. Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Pro-Vice Chancellor and Principal, recalled that the Campus came into being first as a College of Arts and Science in 1963 with a mere 118 students…

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  • January 18, 2013
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    Barbados Assumes Chair of OAS Inter-American Council for Integral Development

    The Permanent Representative of Barbados to the Organization of American States (OAS), John E. Beale today assumed the Chair of the Inter- American Council for Integral Development (CIDI), the main body of the hemispheric organization with decision making power in matters of partnership for integral development. The Chair of the CIDI was received from the Permanent Representative of Antigua and…

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  • January 18, 2013
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    PM promises fight

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Prime Minister Freundel Stuart is not happy about the recent large subsidies given to the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico in relation to rum production, which has left Barbados and other Caribbean islands at a serious disadvantage. But he says the Government is fighting back and will take this grievance to the highest international world trade…

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