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  • August 14, 2013
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    Time for action on the MSME policy

    KINGSTON, Jamaica, Observer – WE hope that the Green Paper on the draft Micro Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) and Entrepreneurial Policy, which was tabled in Parliament in May, has not been left to gather cobwebs like other documents now before the legislature. Even if he does not show it, we know that Minister Anthony Hylton, in whose Ministry of…

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  • August 14, 2013
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    Brazilian Benefits – Jamaica Ready To Boost Tourism With Links From South American Nation

    KINGSTON, Jamaica, Gleaner – FOLLOWING THE establishment of an embassy in Brazil last year, the Jamaican Government is indicating that it is moving post-haste to ensure that the country is able to capitalise on tourism and investment opportunities served up by the South American nation. Alison Stone Roofe, Jamaica's ambassador to Brazil, has noted that Brazil continues to experience real…

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  • August 14, 2013
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    Don’t Take World Champs Success For Granted – Wilson

    Moscow, Russia: Bob Marley hits blaring throughout the Luzhniki Stadium; Russians walking around in the black, green, and gold of the Jamaican flag; every Jamaican in Moscow an instant hit, the centre of attention. These are the inroads that Jamaica's early three-medal performance at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics have made on the conservative Russian public, and while happy…

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  • August 14, 2013
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    JTB Hosts Jamaica House In Moscow

    KINGSTON, Jamaica, Gleaner – Jamaica has been seeking to capitalise on the buzz being created by its athletes in Russia with the hosting of what it has dubbed Jamaica House Moscow. The initiative follows a similar effort mounted at the 2012 Olympics in London and seeks to boost tourist arrivals from Russia and Eastern Europe. Jamaica Tourist Board says Jamaica…

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  • August 14, 2013
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    Region 2 again tops country in CSEC results… – Zimeena Rasheed creates history with 20 subjects

    GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Chronicle – FOR the second consecutive year, a student from the Essequibo Coast in Region 2(Pomeroon/Supenaam) has topped the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) Examinations, this time with a regional record of twenty subjects. Sixteen-year-old Zimeena Rasheed of Anna Regina Secondary School obtained 18 grade ones and 2 grade twos, making the Essequibo region – as well as…

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  • August 14, 2013
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    A call to swift action

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nation News – GOVERNMENT SEEMS TO have woken up to the realization of the need to act and to do so with some measure of urgency in an effort to stop the economic morass which has stymied or eliminated growth in recent years. This call to action was evident, given some of the measures outlined last evening by…

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  • August 14, 2013
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    Mottley blasts Sinckler’s Budget

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nation News – A THROW-YOUR-HANDS-up-in-the-air Budget! That was how Opposition Leader Mia Mottley described yesterday’s Financial Statement and Budgetary Proposals delivered by Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler. “It is a cut-and-paste Budget with no clear concept as to where we are going or what we will achieve. Bajans will feel pain but, unlike the past, you will not know…

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  • August 14, 2013
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    Tough cuts

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nation News – BARBADIANS WILL BE FORCED TO ENDURE 19 months of pain, restraint, public sector hiring freezes and possible job cuts. These measures will be instituted while Government tries to spur the key foreign exchange-earning sectors with incentives for growth to turn around the struggling economy. Burdened by nearly six years of little to no growth in…

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  • August 14, 2013
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    No more ‘free’ university education

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Guardian – THERE has been a major shift in financing the education of Barbadians attending the University of the West Indies (UWI). Finance and Economic Affairs Minister, Christopher Sinckler, made the announcement yesterday that from September next year Barbadians will be called on to pay tuition fees at the UWI. Delivering his Budgetary proposals against the background of…

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  • August 14, 2013
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    Freeze in hiring

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Guardian – FINANCE and Economic Affairs Minister, Christopher Sinckler, has announced a freeze in hiring within the public service. There will be a “total freeze on all new hiring in the central public service and across all statutory entities”. This was the word coming from the Minister as he presented his Budget and Financial Measures in the House…

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