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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    New strategic plan for 2013-2020

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Guardian – The reality is clear and the future yet grim. Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, Christopher Sinckler, has said that the Government’s approach to the new Growth and Development Strategy (BGDS) 2013- 2020 will be more aggressive than its predecessor, the Medium-Term Fiscal Strategy. In outlining its recommendations in the House of Assembly yesterday, where he…

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    Rescue mission

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Guardian – FINANCE and Economic Affairs Minister, Christopher Sinckler yesterday announced a 19-month rescue mission for the Barbados economy that he said would see a lower fiscal deficit and improved activity. In what amounted to some very tough actions to deal with a ballooning deficit and a declining economy, the Minister used his fourth Budget to announce a…

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