Oil clean-up still a messy issue

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nation News - GOVERNMENT MAY eventually have to cough up $64 million dollars for the clean-up of the former Mobil Oil Refinery site at Needham’s Point. But the legal team representing the Canadian company originally hired to clean up the site believe Government’s c...
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Lagging behind

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Stabroek News - Guyana’s dismal record on maternal mortality would have contributed to the near-fail the region received on this target when the 2013 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) report was released on Monday in Geneva, Switzerland. While Latin America and the Carib...
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UWI’s Open Campus to be first accredited

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - History will be created in Barbados when the Barbados Accreditation Council (BAC) grants institutional accreditation status to one of the island’s tertiary educational providers – the University of the West Indies Open Campus (UWIOC). The Open Campus wi...
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Sinckler: Cut could have been deeper

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - HAD Government’s Medium Term Fiscal Strategy (MTFS) not been implemented, the fiscal adjustment which now has to be made of four per cent or close to $400 million, would be times higher. This assertion from Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, Chris Sinc...
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Healthier options

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - In an effort to curb the growing level of obesity in this island, the Ministry of Health has started talks with several fast food restaurants with the intent of having healthier foods placed on their menus. Senior Medical Health Officer (CNCDs), Dr. Kenneth George,...
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UNITED STATES- MIGRATION -US Coast Guard repatriates Cuban migrants

MIAMI, Florida, CMC – The United States Coast Guard says it has repatriated 37 Cuban migrants to Bahia de Cabañas, Cuba. On Wedneday, the Coast Guard said crewmembers aboard the cutter Margaret Norvell repatriated the Cubans the day before “as a result of four separate interdicti...
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Visitor arrivals up by nine per cent

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Gleaner - Despite a 3.1 per cent decrease in visitor arrivals this past winter, Jamaica is already reporting a rebound of nine per cent in one of its most important source markets - Canada. This has been bolstered by an unprecedented growth of 10 per cent in the United Kingdom (U...
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