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Internet host the snag

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The immigration officer who interviewed Shanique Myrie when the Jamaican came to Barbados in 2011 became suspicious because the visitor was travelling here for the first time, and had also met the person who planned to host her on the Internet.
This was revealed to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) yesterday by Grade 3 Immigration Officer Alicia Young, on the second day of testimony in Myrie’s discrimination suit against the Barbados Government.

PM ready to work with which ever government emerges in Grenada, Barbados

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – One of the Caribbean’s longest serving head of government says he is ready to work with whichever leader the electorates in Grenada and Barbados select in general elections on Tuesday and Thursday respectively. “First of all, I make no comment about any of the elections. So, I am not agreeing with your thesis because I don’t want anybody to say that I am supporting,” Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, the second longest serving government leader within the 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping, told reporters.

$600m plan

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - THE OPPOSITION PROMISED an economic stimulus package but it is the re-elected Freundel Stuart administration that is about to deliver one. Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler revealed yesterday in the House of Assembly during the first day of debate on the 2013-2014 Estimates of Income and Expenditure that a $600 million stimulus package was on to generate more economic activity in the country

Food imports too high

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Barbados’ food import bill has reached unsustainable levels for a small island developing state.
This was pointed out by the Permanent Secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Tourism and International Transport, Shelley Carrington, while addressing the opening of the Ministries of Tourism and Agriculture sponsored workshop, “Mainstreaming Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) in the Restaurant Sub-sector,” held at the Dinning Club conference centre, Newton Industrial Estate Christ Church yesterday.

Camera systems come under scrutiny as CCJ continues hearing testimony in case against Barbados

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Cameras installed at the Grantley Adams International Airport have been functioning since they were put in place as part of the security arrangements for the 2007 International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) was told on Monday.
The Trinidad-based CCJ is hearing testimony in the case in which a Jamaican national has sued Barbados claiming that she was assaulted by an immigration officer in 2011.

CARICOM’s silence on UN’s rejection of Haitian claims

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - IT’S ALMOST a month since United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon informed Haiti’s President Michel Martelly of the quite shocking decision to invoke “legal immunity” for rejecting compensation claims by some 5 000 Haitian cholera victims.
That tragic decision was conveyed via telephone within two days following the conclusion of a CARICOM Heads of Government Conference in Haiti presided over by President Martelly, current chairman of the 15-member Community.

Path set for economic growth

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - ON the eve of tonight’s discussion on a strategy for growing the Barbados economy, it is necessary to refer to a paper which the Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados, Dr. Delisle Worrell, penned last year.
In the paper published in Washington D.C. by the Group of 30, Dr. Worrell reiterated that economic expansion in this country and, similarly, small economies, must be led by the foreign exchange-earning sectors of the economy.

CDB, CCRIF host donor meeting

Bridgetown—The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) recently hosted a strategic donor meeting at the offices of the CDB in Barbados to discuss ways to support CCRIF’s new excess rainfall product and to coordinate with donors’ disaster risk management initiatives in the region.

CCJ hearing of Shanique Myrie case heads to Barbados

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC - All is in place for Monday’s sitting of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in Barbados to hear evidence in the case of Shanique Myrie, the Jamaican woman who took the Government of Barbados to court on allegations that she was assaulted by an immigration officer in 2011.
The CCJ will hear from Immigration department officials who came into contact with  Myrie when she landed at the Grantley Adams International Airport in March 2011.

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