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Former prime minister dismisses reports of a return to active politics

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Former prime minister Oliver Serpahin has rubbished reports that he is making a comeback into local politics.
“I have been resident abroad for the most part of the past six years and wish to state categorically that I have  at no time expressed a desire or demonstrated intent to form any other political organization for the forthcoming general elections in Dominica,” said Seraphin, who served as head of an interim government here between 1979-80.

Guyanese attorney declines post of DPP citing internet attack on integrity

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Guyanese-born attorney Kurt De Freitas, who was due to take up the post of Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) here next month, is no longer accepting the post, Attorney General Levi Peter announced Wednesday.
Peter told a news conference that he had received a letter from De Freitas citing unsubstantiated statements about him on the internet as a reason for declining the job.
In his letter, De Freitas said that his decision to withdraw was not one he took lightly.

CLICO progress

BRIDGETOWN,  Barbados - CLICO HOLDINGS BARBADOS Limited has been placed in receivership with immediate effect, thereby speeding up the likelihood of repayment for CLICO International Life’s (CIL) 25 000-plus policyholders.
Two years after being appointed judicial manager of CIL insurance company, Deloitte Consulting Inc. yesterday placed CLICO Holdings under receivership, stating that its decision was in keeping with the basis of its appointment to act in the interest of CIL’s policyholders

National Security Minister resigns

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – National Security Minister Charles Savarin has resigned paving the way for his nomination as a government candidate for the post of President of Dominica.
Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, speaking on the state-owned DBS radio on Thursday morning, said that Savarin’s name would be forwarded to the parliament ahead of the election of a new head of state on September 30.
He said the earlier nominee, Jennifer Wallace La Fond, had withdrawn her nomination for “personal reasons”.

Parliamentarians debate decriminalisation of marijuana

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The need for clarity on the difference between the decriminalisation and legalization of marijuana was highlighted by Parliamentarians at a recent sitting of the House of Representatives.
On Tuesday, Damion Crawford, of the ruling People’s National Party (PNP), in his contribution to the ongoing debate surrounding marijuana, argued that persons should not have a police record because of  an offense related to the use of the drug.

Orange day

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - On Wednesday, July 25, 2012, UNiTE, the UN Secretary General’s campaign to end violence against women proclaimed that the twenty-fifth day of every month would be dubbed Orange Day and it would be used to bring attention to preventing and ending what has been dubbed ‘the Global scourge’ ‒ violence against women and girls. The UNiTE campaign felt that once a year was not sufficient to highlight this growing problem and its Global Youth Network initiates activities such as encouraging the wearing of the colour orange.

Climate change has economic benefits — Pickersgill

KINGSTON, Jamaica - ENVIRONMENT and climate change minister Robert Pickersgill yesterday challenged engineers to take advantage of the economic opportunities presented by climate change even as they seek to manage the risks associated with the phenomenon.
Addressing the second day of the Jamaica Institution of Engineers (JIE) Engineer's Week Conference, billed 'Engineers Embracing Change', at the Knutsford Court Hotel, the minister said that adaptation to climate change was awash with opportunities to develop new, innovative infrastructure systems and services

United States provides funds to Trinidad and Tobago under CBSI

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The United States is providing Trinidad and Tobago with TT$11.3 million (One TT dollar = US$0.16 cents) for security assistance programmes through the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI).
The agreement increases cooperative opportunities between the two governments to develop programmes aimed at increasing citizen security in the areas of juvenile justice, youth development, counter-narcotics, military and police capacity, drug demand reduction, and financial crimes investigations. 

IMF shifts strategy on Caribbean economies

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - In an apparent shift of emphasis, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is advocating that economic growth be placed at the centre of the recovery of Caribbean islands, many of which have been battered by the impact of the global financial crisis.

PM urges UN to ratify arms treaty

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The death of T&T scholarship winner Ravindra Ramrattan during the recent terrorist attack at a mall in Kenya was another example of the consequences of the illicit arms flow across borders, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar told the United Nations General Assembly yesterday. Persad-Bissessar spoke about Ramrattan’s death as she urged world leaders to ratify the UN’s small arms treaty during her address to leaders at the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

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