BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - For disaster management personnel, the challenge of preparing Caribbean communities is a great one. That is according to the outgoing Executive Director of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), Jeremy Collymore. His comments came during an interview with the media yesterday afternoon following a media conference and luncheon in his honour at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Dave Cameron unseated Julian Hunte as West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) president yesterday and immediately promised lofty goals aimed at restoring the regional team to the top of world cricket. In a closely fought ballot at the regional governing body’s annual general meeting, the 42-year-old Cameron polled seven votes to Hunte’s five – a result that suggested there was a split of votes in at least one of the six territorial boards.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) (The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) Standby Facility represents a new paradigm for collaboration between Caribbean Forum of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (CARIFORUM) States and the European Union (EU), as does the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Single Market and Economy (CSME) Standby Facility with respect to collaboration between CARICOM States and the EU.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Claiming to be bemused by the 2013 Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure, economist Ryan Straughn says the Government is not willing to take advice and has failed to take the necessary measures to take Barbados on a growth path.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - IF ever there is a puzzle between Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago, it has to do with the exceptionally long delay for the two countries to conclude a fishing agreement. Is it likely therefore that that there will ever be one? Last week the Prime Minister Freundel Stuart spoke on the matter which has been ongoing for well over 20 years.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) wrapped up the Barbados leg of the Shanique Myrie case here during the past week and in the process completed a major demonstration of why this institution has become a critical part of our regional jurisprudence.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Throughout the ages, man has held water as the most precious natural resource on earth; and rightfully so, since water is the source of all life on this planet and, coincidentally, it is only on earth that one can find this liquid. For such a simple chemical structure, water has led to many complicated challenges with regard to its accessibility. There have been many a battle, conquests and political and social manoeuvrings in an effort to obtain water and ensure its continued availability.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - THE Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) is charting the way forward in establishing and maintaining a well co-ordinated system of Tourism Satellite Accounts (TSAs) in the Caribbean.
The objective of the TSAs is to help strengthen the capacities of the governments to assess the impact of tourism on the Caribbean economies through accurate and timely provision of information, revealed Marisko Russell, Team Leader of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB).
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The Estimates debate has taken pride of place during this week as the Lower House has debated the economy against the backdrop of the Minister of Finance’s presentation to the House. Perhaps the most important development has been the announcement by the Finance Minister that a stimulus of $600 million will be adopted as part of the Government’s plan to get the economy jump started.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - ECONOMIC MADNESS!
That’s how economics Professor Michael Howard has described Government’s proposed $600 million economic stimulus, warning that the country simply cannot afford it.
And he has suggested that given the “weakness of our productive sectors, our large fiscal deficit, our sluggish tax receipts and our downgrade to junk status”, a policy of austerity and expenditure reduction was the better option.