EDITORIAL: Africa’s stifled growth potential

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Last week African business and government leaders met in Cape Town at the World Economic Forum on Africa to assess the impact of its growing wealth on alleviating poverty and to address the issue of transparency. It is well known that Africa’s impressive growth is not sh...
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OAS urging helps focus on T&T party funding

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Trinidad and Tobago should not need the Secretary General of the Organisation of American States (OAS) to admonish this country about the dangers to good government and to democracy posed by political funding. Miguel Insulza has been the latest high official to mount a bull...
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Government pumping millions into ICT sector

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica government is pumping an estimated US$20 million in the development of the information communication technology (ICT) sector, Science, Technology, Energy and Mining Minister Phillip Paulwell has said. “Jamaica is on a growth trajectory once more. W...
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DON’T BLAME ME

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Former controversial Caribbean Airlines (CAL) chairman George Nicholas says he’s not to blame for the company’s present financial state. The six-year-old airline, of which Nicholas was the chairman for 16 months, has been in the red for the past three years and...
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Chairman defends board, blames ex-workers

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - CAL chairman Rabindra Moonan yesterday defended his board’s decisions in the midst of financial challenges. The six-year-old state company has found itself managing a billion-dollar debt and having to write off millions in losses owing to mismanagement of the company&...
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CARICOM HEADS VEX OVER CAL

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Shareholder governments of the regional airline LIAT say the T&T Government’s subsidy to State-owned Caribbean Airlines (CAL) is a violation of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas that governs CARICOM. Dr Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenad...
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Government to disclose financial position of Caribbean Airlines

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Finance Minister Larry Howai is expected to detail the financial position of the state-owned Caribbean Airlines (CAL) on Tuesday amid media reports that the airline has had to write off millions of dollars in losses owing to mismanagement and credit card fraud. H...
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Linking the sightless with the blind

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua - The aviation industry in the English-speaking Caribbean has always been one that meddling West Indian politicians find irresistible. Our leaders seem to stumble over each other in their eagerness to be identified with what is generally regarded as a glamourous business. I...
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