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Better in the Bahamas? Not if you’re Haitian

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - His home in flames last Monday night, top priority for 74-year-old Lucien Janise was to snatch up his passport. “Everything burn, everything gone… The only thing I could save was my documents, that’s it. No clothes, no nothing.” Perhaps 50 mainly wooden houses burnt down on one night in a Haitian shanty town in the Bahamian capital, Nassau. At least 121 people from the 400-strong ghetto community on Joe Farrington Road were left homeless, maybe more. Some residents suspect an arson attack, aimed at clearing the property.

T&T and Venezuela hold energy talks

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The Second Meeting of the Joint Steering Committee (JSC) for the Unitisation of Cross Border Hydrocarbon Reservoirs between T&T and Venezuela was held at the offices of the Ministry of Energy and Energy Affairs in Port of Spain on July 23 and 24. The meeting involved delegations led by the co-chairperson from Venezuela, Angel González Saltrόn, Vice Minister of Hydrocarbons, People’s Ministry for Energy and Petroleum and his counterpart and co-chairman from T&T, Selwyn Lashley, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Energy.

Haiti fighting against deadly health menace

Cholera is likely to be a public health problem in Haiti for many years to come. Cholera spreads via contaminated food, water and fecal matter. One of the essential parts of the government's 2.2-billion-dollar National Plan for the Elimination of Cholera in Haiti is financing for sanitation systems nationwide. - See more at:

Cost of living rises in June

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -The latest data from the Central Statistical Office indicates that headline inflation in Trinidad and Tobago accelerated in June even though core inflation remained low and stable, the Central Bank said yesterday. Headline inflation rose to 6.8 per cent in June compared to 5.6 per cent in May. Core inflation, which excludes food prices, slowed to 2.2 per cent in June from 2.4 per cent in May.

Not the time!

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Public servants in Barbados can breathe a bit easier. For now. Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler has promised that if the struggling economy does reach the stage where Barbadians are to be put on the breadline, trade unions and the population will be consulted first. “I can’t say from this distance we are looking to lay people off,” Sinckler added in response to a caller on Starcom Network’s Brass Tacks call-in programme yesterday.

Finance Minister confident of economic growth

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica says it is confident the island will start to see economic growth as it implements the multi-million Economic Reform Programme (ERP) with assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Finance Minister Dr. Peter Phillips is urging citizens to support the ERP, which aims to reduce the country’s debt, and set a platform for growth.

EDITORIAL: Worthy push for Landship recognition

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - In the midst of a raging debate on the economy and the observance of Crop Over Festival, which is easily our greatest manifestation of our cultural heritage, there comes news that steps are being taken to have the indigenous Barbados Landship Association recognized by the UNESCO.
This revelation has come from no less an authoritative source than Dr Marcia Burrowes, who is a member of the association’s 150th anniversary planning committee.

Government and opposition disagree on boundaries

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Denzil Douglas has defended the decision to revisit the constituency boundaries even as opposition legislators claim he is seeking to gerrymander the electoral process.
Prime Minister Douglas said that the Constitution of St. Kitts-Nevis provides for the revisiting of the boundaries every three to five years.
He told radio listeners that the main opposition People’s Action Movement (PAM) had revisited the boundaries in 1983 for the elections in 1984 and then again in 1988 for the elections the following year.

Ministers sue former colleague

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Local Government Minister Surij Rambachan has said he is taking legal action former national security minister Austin “Jack” Warner as the campaign winds down for Monday’s by-election in Trinidad and Tobago.
Rambachan said that Warner, who, according to the only published opinion poll here, is leading in the Changuanas West constituency, has been motivated by “personal spite and or ill will” in his attacks on him.

LIAT hires more crew to fly Dash-8 planes

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Chief Executive Officer of LIAT, Ian Brunton, has confirmed the regional carrier has enlisted “contract crews” to replace former Dash-8 pilots who are now flying new ATR aircraft.
The “new” hires will fly the older planes in LIAT’s fleet, but Brunton has told the travelling public that it will be another “two to three weeks” before they’re pressed into service as they have to “satisfy the regulatory system.”
“It was not an overnight thing,” the CEO, who was a guest on the Voice of Barbados call in programme yesterday, said.

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