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CAL not in crisis, says chairman

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The Caribbean Airlines (CAL) board has directed that its acting chief executive Robert Corbie provide a report on why the company has to potentially write off $200 million in cargo revenue and credit card fraud. Chairman Rabindra Moonan, in a telephone interview yesterday, observed that those losses are the responsibility of the company’s management. He said that matter was top of the agenda at CAL’s marathon board meeting at the company’s head offices in Piarco yesterday.

Caribbean airline integration: A call to action

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - In his book, Re-engineering Management, James Champy states: The results are in: Re-engineering works—up to a point. The obstacle is management. The only way we’re going to deliver on the full promise of re-engineering is to start re-engineering management. The problem is, current Caribbean leaders will not acknowledge that leadership models across the Caribbean are badly broken, let alone that they are the one who need reengineered mindsets.

Regional transport ministers to discuss transport woes

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) ministers of transport will meet in St. Vincent and the Grenadines later this month and are likely to make recommendations that will go before regional leaders at their annual summit in Trinidad and Tobago in July on the vexing question of air and maritime transportation in the Caribbean.

Ban Ki-Moon’s warning not to be taken lightly!

KINGSTON, Jamaica - UNITED Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon issued a warning to the world's business community yesterday that, we believe, is most pertinent to Jamaica and indeed our sister Caribbean states. According to Mr Ban, economic losses linked to disasters are "out of control" and will continue to escalate unless disaster risk management becomes a core part of business investment strategies. The UN secretary general made the observation in his address at the launch of what was described as a groundbreaking new report from the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR).

EDITORIAL - Getting serious about CARICOM

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Until now, the debate about Jamaica's relationship with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has been emotive and huffing. The core of the issue is Jamaica's near US$1 billion trade deficit with the community, the bulk of which is with Trinidad and Tobago. Jamaica mostly place the blame for this state of affairs on claims that Port-of-Spain breaks regional trading rules by providing energy subsidies to its manufacturers, who in turn cheat on the rules of origin for their products.

Government announces investigation into destruction Maya archaeological site

BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – The Belize government says it has launched a “vigorous” investigation into the into the circumstances surrounding the near total destruction of the Maya archaeological site known as Noh Mul in northern Belize. Police are also investigating the matter and the Ministry of Tourism and Culture, the National Institute of Culture and History and the Belize Tourism Board have expressed outraged at the destruction of the Noh Mul archaeological site in the Orange Walk district.

Government to pay public servants salary increases

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – The St. Lucia government says it will pay a four per cent increase to all public servants even though members of the Civil Service Association (CSA) had voted last month to reject the government’s offer and settle for a wage freeze. Government said that the increase will be a one per cent in the first year followed by a 1.5 per cent hike for the remaining two years. Public Service Minister Dr. James Fletcher said CSA members still had the option of writing to their respective permanent secretaries informing of their wish not to receive the salary increases.

Former government ministers hint at forming new party

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC – Two former senior government ministers, including former deputy prime minister Sam Condor, have hinted at the possibility of forming a new political party that could likely contest the next general elections in St. Kitts-Nevis. Condor and former senior minister Dr. Timothy Harris said while they are still considering contesting the polls as independent candidates “we’ll probably form a party.

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