BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC – The St. Kitts-Nevis police have denied permission to the main opposition People’s Action Movement (PAM) to stage a protest march in Wednesday and warned persons they would be prosecuted if they participate in any illegal march.
PAM has already described the decision of the police “as a deliberate effort to frustrate the wishes of the people and their rights to free expression and to demonstrate.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - SOMETIMES WE JUST do not want to accept some of the unsavoury things happening in our society. We would rather pretend that the situation does not exist. Unfortunately, ignoring the problems will not make the problem disappear.
Such is the case with the apparent growing incidence of violent confrontation among some of our secondary school children.
ATLANTA, Georgia, CMC – The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia has voted unanimously in appointing a Guyanese academic as the ninth president of Fort Valley State University.
Dr. Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith, provost and senior vice president at York College of the City University of New York, will assume his new post on July 22, 2013.
University System of Georgia (USG) Chancellor Hank Huckaby said the Board of Regents has made “an outstanding selection” for the next president of Fort Valley State University.
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has dismissed suggestions that his administration has not engaged in public consultations ahead of the presentation of the 2013-14 national budget.
General Secretary of the Dominica Public service Union (DPSU), Thomas Letang, spoke of the lack of consultation with the union but Skerrit, speaking on the state-owned DBS radio, said that consultations are ongoing with stakeholders.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - Air Traffic Controllers who took industrial action on Saturday, were ordered to return to work following the granting of a court injunction obtained by the Ministry of Labour on Sunday afternoon. The over forty air traffic controllers at the two international airports, the Norman Manley International in Kingston and the Sangster International in the western city of Montego Bay took industrial action in the form of a sick out to express dissatisfaction with salary negotiations.
KINGSTON, Jamaica - JAMAICA and the United States last Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that will see greater co-operation between both countries on matters related to climate change and environmental best practices. The agreement will see the ministries of water, land, environment and climate change and science, technology, energy and mining collaborating with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to develop and promote environmental best practices
MIAMI, CMC – A high-ranking United States military official claims that Haitian family members in South Florida are possibly behind a “dangerous new trend” in the smuggling of undocumented Haitian immigrants from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico.
“The new thing that’s happening is in the Mona Passage between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, and it’s being fueled, we think, by money from relatives probably, almost assuredly, up here in South Florida,” Rear Admiral William D. Baumgartner, commander of the Seventh US Coast Guard District in Miami, told reporters here.
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC - The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched a project to boost farmer incomes and promote local organizations in northern Haiti.
USAID said the five-year “Feed the Future North (FTFN)” project, is supported by “Feed the Future”, the US government’s global hunger and food security initiative.
It said the new FTFN is an innovative project to spur economic growth in promising agricultural areas in northern Haiti while, at the same time, developing local firms to be direct USAID partners.
More than most countries, Haiti seems to be defined by its statistics: 80% of the population living below the poverty line; the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere; 316,000 killed in the 2010 earthquake; 52.9% literacy rate; the average Haitian earns $1,300 per year. We could go on. On numbers alone, one is tempted to think of Haiti as a lost cause — a hopeless monolith of misery not worth our time or concern. That's where a lot of people begin and end on Haiti.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - China has recently pledged significant support to the Caribbean, especially in the area of agriculture, with the first China-Latin America and the Caribbean Agricultural Ministers' Forum being held in Beijing on June 8-9.