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Airport construction costs increases significantly

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – The chief executive officer of the International Airport Development Company (IADC), Dr. Rudy Mathias, says the cost of constructing the Argyle international airport has increased by nearly EC$200 million dollars (One EC dollar = US$0.37 cents) since construction nearly a decade ago. Speaking on the state-owned NBC radio, Mathias said in 2004 when the first estimate had been presented, the detailed designers for the project was not available.

Universities facing dilemma?

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Have student support services become more complex? Or, has society, in its effort to remove the elitism of tertiary education, thrown out the reverence and thought which was formerly given to chosing a path of higher learning, leaving behind institutions which have become attractors of high debt and procrastinators?

Pilots to undergo training for new LIAT aircraft

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of LIAT Ian Brunton revealed at least three months of training would be required for LIAT pilots to begin flying new ATR aircraft acquired by the airline.
Brunton said training is to begin with a “long three-month process, starting with the ground school” run by the manufacturer in France.
“Pilots have to go across to the training center for ground school and then for both ground and flight simulation,” Brunton said.

Haiti reports first suspected H1N1 death in 2013

Haiti reported on Monday its first suspected death this year from H1N1 virus, reports reaching here said. The victim was from the small community of Nan Bannann in the southern city of Belle-Ansecity, 110 km southwest of the capital Port-au-Prince, the reports said. As local government said, the victim died at a hospital in Thiotte, 65 km east of the capital.

Dominican, Haiti governments square off on poultry ban

Santo Domingo.- The Dominican government Monday night called Haiti’s proposal to continue banning Dominican poultry products and allow only meats, "totally unacceptable," after a four hour  meeting of officials from both countries failed to solve the one-week standoff.
After the meeting, Foreign minister Carlos Morales said president Danilo Medina was told "in a very clear, very transparent and quite frankly, that they didn’t see much interest on the Haitian side."

In Bahamas, Arthur warns of threats to nation building

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - FORMER Barbados Prime Minister Owen Arthur is warning of social disintegration within the Caribbean if new lifestyles and consumption patterns promoted through globalisation, are allowed to go unchecked.
Arthur gave the warning in an address at the 40th anniversary celebration of the Independence of The Bahamas, saying that it could also affect nation building in the region.

Maintain EC currency, advises OECS official

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Despite recent suggestions from an international investment agency that Caribbean territories devalue the Eastern Caribbean currency, a top OECS official is advising otherwise.
Senior Director at the OECS Secretariat Randy Cato said programmes and policies should be implemented to ensure the EC value is maintained as it is “very important for economic decision-making.
“We need to maintain the strength and the value of the EC Caribbean dollar as a currency in which there is significant confidence,” Cato told OBSERVER media yesterday.

Our success story

ST JOHN’S, Antigua - Today, the nine countries, comprising the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, will reflect on how far they have come since that red letter day of June 18, 1981, when the Treaty of Basseterre was signed, bringing the organisation into being. Many years later, on that same date in 2010, the revised treaty came into being with its focus being economic union and having a single space.

OECS observers 32nd anniversary on Tuesday

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) observes its 32nd anniversary on Tuesday with officials pointing to a number of achievements including the establishment of the Economic Union over the past three decades.
OECS Chairman and Prime Minister of Antigua, Baldwin Spencer, will deliver an address to mark the occasion.

EDITORIAL - Mr Obama should be careful in Syria

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Barack Obama, the American president, is a history buff who likes to bone up on the policies and strategies of his predecessors.
As he moves to concretise his decision to provide arms to Syrian rebels, Mr Obama should probably reflect on a country called Afghanistan, where he is now attempting to end a war involving the United States.
He should consider how the Afghan mess was created, beyond the proximate issue of Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda terrorists, who the Americans went to dislodge after their 9/11 attacks on the United States (US).

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