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Jamaica to host PANCAP meetings

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, (CMC) — The Regional Coordinating Mechanism for Global Fund Projects will meet in Jamaica today. The three-day gathering coincides with the 20th meeting of the executive board of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) taking place under the chairmanship of Jamaica's Health Minister Dr Fenton Ferguson. The executive board has responsibility for providing policy guidance on the effective management and operation of the partnership and will review the issues and recommendations of importance to the grouping.

Singapore and Barbados sign open skies deal

Singapore has inked an open skies deal with Barbados that gives carriers full rights to operate as many flights as they want between the two nations. Without strong demand for air services between the two points, it is unlikely the agreement will lead to actual flights, industry analysts said. Still, the deal sealed on Wednesday between Transport Minister Lui Tuck Yew and Ms Maxine McClean, Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister of Barbados, signifies Singapore's commitment to liberal skies, said the analysts.

STANDING OUR GROUND- A&B sets stage to collect WTO remedy

ST JOHN’S, Antigua- After 10 years of stalemate negotiations and estimated billions of dollars lost when United States legislation decimated the local gaming industry, government has moved towards collecting on World Trade Organisation (WTO) approved sanctions.
Government yesterday announced the establishment of a seven-member WTO Remedies Implementation Committee (RIC), to implement the sanctioning process.

CAL cuts Air Jamaica flights

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Cash-strapped Caribbean Airlines (CAL) has cut the number of flights of its Air Jamaica subsidiary by 50 per cent in a bid to stem multi-million-dollar losses at the national airline. CAL has reduced the flight frequencies of Air Jamaica’s core schedule services from Kingston and Montego Bay, Jamaica, to North American destinations including Toronto, Canada and South Florida stops by as much as 50 per cent, but has not eliminated any flights altogether, airline sources confirmed yesterday. The changes went into effect on April 16.

Democratise diplomatic process

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Diplomacy, stripped bare, is conversation taking place between global leaders behind closed doors. As with everything else, it is being impacted by global trends which keep emerging more rapidly than before. The IT age has seen a world, formerly home to a select few some ten to 20 years ago, now become the playground for everyday people.

After Egypt: uneasy now lies the head that wears a (democratic) crown

KINGSTON, Jamaica - The Egyptian military coup that removed the democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi was justified as an act to save democracy and preserve law and order by preventing the country from sinking into further chaos and violence.
The military claimed that it was prompted not only by social disorder but by the publicly expressed demands of the majority of people. The military moved quickly to put in key positions people of their choosing so as not to be ruling on a day-to-day basis.

Democratise diplomatic process

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Diplomacy, stripped bare, is conversation taking place between global leaders behind closed doors. As with everything else, it is being impacted by global trends which keep emerging more rapidly than before. The IT age has seen a world, formerly home to a select few some ten to 20 years ago, now become the playground for everyday people. The speed at which conversation takes place, as well as the increasing numbers of sources adding to that conversation, has seen closed-door fora now become open arenas for discussion.

EDITORIAL: Security bureaucracy out of control

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - It makes perfect sense why the United States is desperate to get its hands on Edward Snowden. Perhaps because he is likely to spill even more beans about the United States National Security Agency’s (NSA) clandestine activities.
This is exactly what he is doing though being holed up in Russia where he is desperately seeking asylum. A report leaked by Snowden to the German paper Der Spiegel cites a 2010 official document alleging that the NSA had been involved in spying on European Union (EU) offices in the United States.

Developing countries outperform rich nations in FDIs

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Value-added trade contributes nearly 30 per cent to developing countries' gross domestic product, on average, compared with 18 per cent in developed countries, according to the recently released World Investment Report 2013.
The report also revealed that last year, for the first time ever, developing economies absorbed more foreign direct investment than developed countries.

Government defends integrity of local doping commission

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has defended the integrity of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) after five local athletes, including former world champion Asafa Powell and Olympic medallist Sherone Simpson, tested positive for a banned substance.
Speaking in Parliament on Tuesday, Simpson Miller said all five athletes have now been informed of the adverse test results, however only two have responded to information sent to them by JADCO.

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