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Look to Canada for energy solution - diaspora member

KINGSTON, Jamaica - A member of the diaspora in Canada has said that it is time Jamaica engage Canada in the discussions aimed at eking out an alternative energy solution to solve the local energy crisis.
Addressing a Gleaner Editors' Forum at the newspaper's North Street, Central Kingston offices yesterday, Howard Shearer who is the chairman of Hitachi Canada, said he recognised that one of the greatest issues with the business continuity in Jamaica "is the energy question".

Government to introduce renewable energy legislation

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados government says it will soon introduce legislation to facilitate renewable energy generation on the island.
“We expect, within the next few months, to have the legislation passed for independent power producers,” said Energy Minister Darcy Boyce, adding “we’ve done this in consultation with the Barbados Light and Power (BL&P) because we do have to maintain the [standard] of the grid in this country”.

Govt taps $833m from Chinese

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Trinidad and Tobago is already beginning to put some $833 million of the US$3 billion in concessional loans from China to use. Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced yesterday this country will be able to immediately access $833 million of these funds to accelerate the development of Business/Commercial and Industrial Parks throughout Trinidad and Tobago. “We will be building seven such parks on 592.1 acres of land representing an investment of $833 million. The leasable space on the estates would be 355.7 acres.

Finance Minister leads delegation to Europe for talks

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Finance Minister Dr. Peter Phillips is leading a delegation to Europe for talks with officials from a financial institutions, according to an official statement released here.
It said that the talks are intended to apprise agents in the international capital markets of developments on the government’s economic reform programme and the growth agenda.
Information Minister Sandrea Falconer said the meetings will involve, primarily, representatives from investment banks, pension funds and insurance companies.

UN condemns forced eviction of families

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC - A senior United Nations official has expressed concern about ongoing illegal forced evictions and human rights abuses of families displaced by the 2010 earthquake. The Office of the Humanitarian Coordinator for Haiti said that earlier this month, the United Nations was informed that 120 to 150 families displaced by the earthquake and residing in Camp Bristou B1 were victims of illegal forced eviction. In a statement, it said a tractor was used to destroy tents starting leaving about 50 shelters after the demolition.

Sino-Caribbean relations: Priorities and tradeoffs

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The visit to the Caribbean earlier this month by Chinese Leader Xi Jinping and the simultaneous announcement that the region would be the beneficiary of yet another huge tranche of financial aid from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) lends a predictable continuity to Beijing’s pursuit of the use of economic diplomacy as a tool with which to deepen its influence in the region. This is not the Cold War era.

Not up to mark!

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - A row may be brewing between Barbados and the Caribbean’s executive director at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
And the quarrel revolves around the “management of the Caribbean constituency office”, which represents the interest of The Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica at the IDB. The office is headed by an executive director and an alternate appointed by the various countries on a rotating basis.

Countries slow to ratify Cariforum/EU EPA

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Political will is needed for all the countries in Cariforum and the European Community to ratify the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), British High Commissioner to T&T Arthur Snell said yesterday.

JMA to AJ Nicholson: ‘Step aside, minister’

KINGSTON, Jamaica - THE Jamaica Manufacturers' Association (JMA) yesterday told Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister AJ Nicholson to step aside or start singing a different tune on the trade dispute between Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago.

The ongoing trade deficit problem for T&T and Jamaica

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - THE RECURRING challenges of a widening trade deficit for Jamaica with Trinidad and Tobago featured again in the Jamaican senate last Friday but climaxed with an understanding to pursue a non-confrontational strategy for reversal of this lingering negative trend.
For all their often feisty political quarrels, both government and opposition senators joined forces to echo dissatisfaction over the very significant trade balance, which currently stands at some BDS$2 billion in Trinidad and Tobago’s favour.

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