Universities facing dilemma?

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Have student support services become more complex? Or, has society, in its effort to remove the elitism of tertiary education, thrown out the reverence and thought which was formerly given to chosing a path of higher learning, leaving behind institutions which have become attr...
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Barbados to raise unfair trading practice before COTED

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados says it will raise with the Caribbean Community Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) a situation involving the production of beers in the sub-regional Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). Industry, International Business, Commerce ...
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Get on board

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - THE report that LIAT has acquired the first ATR 72-600 aircraft as part of a programme to upgrade its fleet is good news for the island-hopping airline. But as the Caribbean air carrier embarks on this project, which is costly but necessary, now is the time for other islands w...
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Questions for CARICOM after Biden, Xi visits

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - NOW THAT United States Vice-president Joseph Biden and China’s President Xi Linping have completed their respective missions to engage Caribbean Community (CARICOM) partner states – via separate meetings in Port of Spain, Trinidad – it is of relevance to rais...
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Regional petition seeking support for cervical cancer screening

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC - The Healthy Caribbean Coalition (HCC) has launched a regional petition aimed at getting Caribbean governments to increase women’s access to affordable cervical cancer screening. The HCC said nearly 100 per cent of all cervical cancer cases can be prevented if people...
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Downside

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - BARBADOS’ TOURISM SECTOR is going in the same direction as the poorly-performing sugar industry that was once a major foreign exchange earner. And while the Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA) and other private sector bodies have repeatedly identified the issue...
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Caribbean looks to China to develop agricultural sector

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Caribbean countries are looking to China to help develop their agricultural sector and are seeking to take advantage of a US$50 million fund established by Beijing. Caribbean agriculture ministers joined their counterparts from Latin America and China for two days o...
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Not up to mark!

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - A row may be brewing between Barbados and the Caribbean’s executive director at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). And the quarrel revolves around the “management of the Caribbean constituency office”, which represents the interest of The Bahamas, Ba...
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