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PM Gonsalves warns of increase in non-communicable diseases
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC - Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves has lauded the primary and secondary health care system in St. Vincent and the Grenadines but said “developed countries diseases” continue to be a challenge.
“These are hypertension, diabetes, cardiac problems and, of course, accidents and criminal violence,” he said Monday on the Grenadine island of Bequia, where a new health centre was opened.
He said the number of citizens affected with diabetes and hypertension is “just too high.
Conference examining impact of ozone depleting substances
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC - A conference examining the impact of ozone depleting substances (ODS) on the environment began here Monday with Prime Minister Dr. Denzil Douglas urging regional countries to adequately educate their populations on the issue.
Former judge sworn in as Trinidad and Tobago’s fifth head of state
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - Former High Court judge, Anthony Carmona, 60, was sworn in as Trinidad and Tobago’s fifth head of state on Monday at a public ceremony held at the Hasley Crawford Stadium, on the outskirts of the capital.
In a ceremony carried live on radio and television, Carmona, a graduate of the University of the West Indies (UWI) and the Hugh Wooding Law School, succeeds educator George Maxwell Richards, who ended a 10 year term in the ceremonial post on Sunday.
CCJ makes landmark evidence ruling today
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - THE CARIBBEAN Court of Justice's (CCJ) trip to Barbados will be highlighted by a landmark evidentiary ruling today.
The CCJ's decision, expected this morning, is one that could set a precedent on statements of evidence, what documents are fit for evidence and how their admissibility will be treated.
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.
The South can create its own development
KINGSTON, Jamaica - For the last 200 years, the North — more specifically North America and Western Europe — dominated the world economy and was the engine of growth.
The Russian Revolution and its colonisation of Eastern Europe created the tripartite world of First (North), Second (Communist) and the South (colonies and poor independent developing countries).
That formation lasted until the Soviet Union imploded and Eastern Europe regained its independence, and thus the world reverted to North (developed countries) and South (developing or underdeveloped
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.