ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Grenada says it is willing to be a partner in the development and success of the regional airline, LIAT, only if the cash-strapped airline shows itself to be serious and cost effective. Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell said has made recommendations on improving the airline to the just concluded summit of leaders of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) in Antigua this week.
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Grenada says it is willing to be a partner in the development and success of the regional airline, LIAT, only if the cash-strapped airline shows itself to be serious and cost effective. Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell said has made recommendations on improving the airline to the just concluded summit of leaders of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) in Antigua this week.
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves is travelling to Venezuela Friday to attend a meeting of the Bolivarian Alliance for Our Americas (ALBA) Bank. “I have to be on a plane around 12 o’clock,” he told Parliament Thursday night. “There is a ministerial meeting of the ALBA Bank and I looked at the agenda and it has some great interest to me. That meeting is at 3 o’clock in Caracas in Venezuela so I will like to leave here at midday,” he said before announcing a resumption of Parliament on Friday morning at 9.a.m (local time).
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Haiti has imposed a ban on the importation and sale of meat products as well as poultry, eggs and live animals from the Dominican Republic following reports of a resurgence of the Avian Flu (HINI virus) in that country.
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC –The Antigua and Barbuda government says it is encouraged by talks with United States Vice President Joe Biden about the prospects in the cross border gaming dispute between the two countries. A government statement is quoting Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer as saying that the matter had been raised during Biden’s recent visit to Trinidad and Tobago for talks with Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders.
NEW YORK, CMC – Grenada’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Business, Nickolas Steele, claims the new Keith Mitchell administration has accomplished more in its first 100 days in office compared to what was accomplished by the former administration of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), led by Tillman Thomas . “In my opinion, we have achieved more that what the NDC achieved in 4 ½ years,” Steele told the Caribbean Media Corporation in an interview on Wednesday.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - RENEWABLE ENERGY will be the centrepiece of Government’s economic programme outlined by Governor General Sir Elliott Belgrave in the Throne Speech yesterday.
In the speech, a feature of the opening of a new parliamentary term, the Government committed itself to not only reducing the island’s overall $1 billion fuel bill by $150 million by 2018, but also to using hybrid and electric buses for public transportation.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - he Caribbean has earned an unenviable reputation as one of the most natural disaster-prone and high debt regions in the world, Central Bank Governor Jwala Rambarran said when he addressed the International Conference for Science and Technology for Economic Diversification at the Hilton Hotel.
KINGSTON, Jamaica - In recent weeks, sharply contrasting views on how the United States should respond to the madness in Syria have emerged from two of America's most prominent voices. Republican Senator John McCain is convinced that US intervention is the only solution to the deadly conflict, while Mr Zbigniew Brzezinski, who served as national security advisor from 1977 to 1981, believes that intervention would only worsen the situation.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - THE Ministry of the Environment remains committed to Barbados’ goal of becoming the greenest economy in the Caribbean and Latin America. Minister Dr Denis Lowe made the pledge yesterday at The Crane Residential Resort, St Philip, where he toured a showcase under the theme Think, Eat, Save as the hotel commemorated World Environment Day. Lowe said the journey to a green economy would be determined by how the island’s environment was treated “because we believe that we can have a sustainable economy without compromising the virtues of our environment”.