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Barbados economy contracts during the first half of 2013

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados economy contracted during the first six months of the year with the main foreign exchange sectors also suffering a decline, according to figures released by the Central Bank of Barbados (CBB) on Tuesday.
The CBB said that the local economy grew by just 0.6 per cent and among the priorities for the future will be to reduce spending “in the economy so as to balance the inflows and outflows of foreign exchange “and also “to revive economic growth led by tourism, international business, agro processing and alternative energy”.

CDF to provide funds to Dominica; signs headquarters agreement with Barbados

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados-based CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) will soon sign a US$7.1 million agreement with Dominica.
CDF executive officer Ambassador Lorne McDonnough said that the organisation will continue to assist disadvantaged countries, regions and sectors within the Caribbean Community as they participate in the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME).
The CDF has since 2011 provided US$35.5 million in financial assistance to Belize, Dominica, St .Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

More CARICOM spin will get us nowhere fast

KINGSTON, Jamaica - JUST before last week's 34th meeting of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Conference of Heads of Government in Port of Spain, we bemoaned in this space that CARICOM, some five years after the eruption of the global economic crisis, had still not formulated a regional response.

Politicking T&T/CARICOM style

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - PRIME MINISTER Kamla Persad-Bissessar is undoubtedly relieved to have behind her the hosting of the 34th Caricom Summit so that she could be more fully focused in what she seems to relish so much—party politicking against ALL opposition comers—even within her United National Congress.
This time around, for immediate attention on her UNC’s radar is Jack Warner—until recently, long-held bosom “comrade”, now a major foreboding political threat in a fierce battle for the Chaguanas West by-election.

Tornado Strikes

JOHN’S, Antigua – Residents made several reports of tornadoes and watersspouts touching down on the island, as Tropical Storm Chantal passed to the south of Antigua yesterday afternoon.
OBSERVER media newsroom received eyewitness reports of tornadoes forming in the Lightfoot community and causing damage to both the Camp Blizzard army base and the Jumby Bay Resort on offshore Long Island.

Storm brings showers to T&T

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - TROPICAL Storm Chantal, which churned its way through the Caribbean yesterday, brought  brief but heavy showers to Trinidad and Tobago.
Both islands were relatively event-free on Monday night while yesterday morning the rains began as a drizzle which then turned into full-blown thundershowers around just after midday.
There were no reports of flooding.

Southern village hardest hit by storm’s passage

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC -- Tropical Storm Chantal left Dominica with a trail of destruction in the southern part of this Windward island on Tuesday before churning out into the Caribbean Sea and setting its sights on Haiti and the Dominican Republic. By 5.00 pm (2100 GMT), a tropical storm warning was discontinued after a day of strong gusts left some homes without roofs, forcing occupants to seek shelter from relatives.

Dominica mopping up after passage of Tropical Storm Chantal

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Electricity was slowing being restored to several parts of Dominica on Wednesday as authorities began the task of counting the cost of the damage caused by Tropical Storm Chantal 24 hours earlier. Public Works and Infrastructural Development Minister Rayburn Blackmore, speaking on the state-owned DBS radio Wednesday, said the authorities will be assessing the damage “and at the end of the day we should have a better report”.

Opposition leader dismisses statement from acting Police Commissioner regarding “emailgate” scandal

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC –Opposition Leader Dr. Keith Rowley Monday said he was "Curious" as to how Acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams reached a conclusion that e-mails which he read in Parliament purporting to show senior government ministers involved in a plot to undermine the judiciary, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the media were fakes. Rowley was responding to a front-page article in the Trinidad Express newspaper that quoted Williams as saying the 31 emails were not authentic. “Those documents are purporting to be e-mails but they are not.

Freedom park to celebrate Mandela

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -The great South African leader and freedom fighter Nelson Mandela must be celebrated in life and in his ultimate departure of death. As such, Minister of Education, Science, Technology and Innovation, Ronald Jones, has asked that the Nelson Mandela Freedom Park, to be constructed at University Drive, Cave Hill, be a place of “spiritual reverence and peace”, so all those who visit the Park can celebrate his legacy and what he stood for.

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