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  • June 6, 2013
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    EDITORIAL: Something amiss with our tourism

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – We often say that tourism is our business and that is true since it is a major foreign exchange earner for our vulnerable open economy which needs foreign exchange to ensure its stability. Recent developments have, however, caused us some concern and the latest statistics do not give us any comfort. A recent panel discussion held at…

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  • June 6, 2013
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    Caribbean islands say they are open for business

    NEW YORK, CMC – Senior Caribbean tourism officials are hoping for a turnaround in fortunes as the region Wednesday continued efforts to lure visitors to its shores. “We are truly convinced that high tide floats all boats and together by marketing the region … collectively is extremely important,” Chairperson of the Barbados-based Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) Beverly Nicholson-Doty told the…

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  • June 5, 2013
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    Guest Opinion: America can help fix the world by fixing itself

    ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Five years into the global financial crisis, the US and global economies remain mired in a weak-growth, low-inflation, high-unemployment environment. Debt busts such as 2008-09 are hard to exit from, and recoveries are long and painful. However, three complicating factors make the current environment even more challenging. First, economic growth models lie broken across developed and…

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  • June 5, 2013
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    Africa yet to tap full potential

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – LAST MONTH Africa’s 54 leaders celebrated the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) – it became the African Union (AU) in 2002 – which had its origins in the struggle for decolonization and against apartheid. It was founded in 1963 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the venue chosen to mark the anniversary.…

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  • June 5, 2013
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    Junior finance minister hospitalized

    BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – Junior Finance and Economic Development Minister Santiago Castillo Junior, has been hospitalised after he was seriously injured in a cycling incident. Castillo, affectionately known at Santino, is an avid cyclist who owns and manages his own cycling team and actively participates in cycling races as an elite rider.

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  • June 5, 2013
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    Government hints that Local Government elections will not be held this year

    GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana government has hinted that the long awaited Local Government elections may not take place this year and is blaming the opposition grouping, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) for deliberately delaying the process. The state-owned Chronicle newspaper Tuesday quoted Local Government Minister Ganga Persaud as saying that the work of the committee tasked with…

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  • June 5, 2013
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    Former speakers agree that opposition should not have involved the court in motion of no confidence

    BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC – The former speaker of the Grenada parliament George McGuire says opposition legislators in St. Kitts-Nevis “played right into the hands of the Prime Minister” when they filed court action to force the Parliament to debate a motion of no confidence. McGuire, speaking on Winn FM radio here, said that issues relating to the parliament should…

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  • June 5, 2013
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    Cristina Fernandez Announces Hospital Opening in Haiti

    Buenos Aires, (Prensa Latina) Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez, participated today via a video conference at the opening of a hospital in Haiti, and thanked them for appointing it Nestor Kirchner. “We are very excited and want to tell everyone that we are about to inaugurate a referral hospital in Haiti which is an initiative of that country with Venezuela, Cuba…

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  • June 5, 2013
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    Meetings with Chinese President ‘fruitful’

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has described as “very fruitful” the discussions he had last Sunday with the President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, in Port-of- Spain. President Xi was on an official visit to Trinidad and Tobago over the weekend, where he held bilateral meetings with the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community…

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  • June 5, 2013
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    Sir Edwin not concerned over US and China courtship of CARICOM

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Trinidad and Tobago to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) sees no reason for concern over the recent visits by leaders of the two most powerful countries of the world to this region. Concerns have been raised in some quarters over the recent visits of US Vice- President Joe Biden and China’s…

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