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  • September 4, 2013
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    LEAD – BARBADOS-EMPLOYMENT-PM meets with senior public servants to discuss employment issues

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC –Prime Minister Freundel Stuart Tuesday held talks with senior public servants amid ongoing reports of retrenchment within the public service as the government comes to grip with a worsening economic climate. At the end of the 90-minute discussion with the head of the Civil Service, Chief Personnel Officer, permanent secretary in the Ministry of the Civil Service…

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  • September 4, 2013
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    ANTIGUA-EDUCATION-CXC to launch Digital Media subject in Antigua

    ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) will on Thursday launch a Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) level subject in Digital Media, Telecommunications, Science and Technology Minister Dr. Edmond Mansoor has announced. “Following on the successful promotion of the Notesmaster training for teachers in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, on this occasion the collaboration is…

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  • September 4, 2013
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    SURINAME-CRIME-President Desi Bouterse breaks silence on arrest of his son

    PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC – President Desi Bouterse Tuesday hinted that the arrest of his 41-year-old son in Panama last week may have been part of a wider plan to disrupt progress within the Union of American States (UNASUR). Dino Bouterse  was held on drugs and gun related charges last Thursday at the request of US authorities, just as South American…

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  • September 4, 2013
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    CARIBBEAN-POLITICS-Caribbean countries urged to adopt united position on Syria

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A leading regional academic Tuesday called on Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries to adopt a common position as it regards the ongoing situation in Syria. Professor of Social and Political Change at the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies, Brian Meeks, told the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) that his advice to regional governments is…

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  • September 4, 2013
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    CARIBBEAN-AVIATION-LIAT denies newspaper article regarding CPL

    ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The Antigua-based regional airline, Tuesday denied a regional newspaper that the founder of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) lost millions of dollars as a result of the operations of the airline during the competition last month. The Barbados Sunday Sun newspaper quoted businessman Ajmal Khan as describing the airline service as a “travesty” and that…

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    CARIBBEAN-LABOUR-Barbados to host regional workshop on gender equality

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Caribbean judicial officials, including judges, will meet here from September 9 to strengthen judicial capacity to apply international labour law in resolving national gender inequality labour disputes. The five-day workshop on “Gender Equality at Work”, will be attended by delegates from the 13-member Caribbean countries of the International Labour Organization (ILO). It is being organised by…

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  • September 3, 2013
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    Lesson for our legislators in that UK vote on Syria

    KINGSTON, Jamaica, Observer – BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron is fighting for his political life and the legitimacy of his Tory party after Conservative members crossed the dreaded political divide and joined with the Opposition Labour party in voting no to Cameron's plan of participating with the United States in a military strike on Syria. The planned military action is…

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  • September 3, 2013
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    As Obama pushes to punish Syria, lawmakers fear deep US involvement

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s efforts to persuade the US Congress to back his plan to attack Syria met with skepticism yesterday from lawmakers in his own Democratic Party who expressed concern the United States would be dragged into a new Middle East conflict. “There is a lot of skepticism,” said Representative Jim Moran after taking part in a…

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  • September 3, 2013
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    School of marijuana – Research facility to be established

    (Jamaica Gleaner) – A new research facility to study the scientific benefits of marijuana is to be established jointly in Jamaica by two local universities. Paul Chang, chairman of the Ganja Law Reform Coalition made the disclosure at a Gleaner Editors’ Forum last Wednesday. Chang said the new research centre, which is to be called the Jamaica Cannabis Institute, will…

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  • September 3, 2013
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    Consultant: Govt losing oil-tax $

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Express – The revenues that Trinidad and Tobago collects from energy taxes could be significantly higher than what it is currently but companies under-report revenue and sometimes, government doesn’t even collect the taxes, local energy consultant Anthony Paul claimed yesterday. “We are not managing our resources. For starts, we are not giving contracts well. We are…

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