PM comments on Barbados’ downgrade

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - No country rejoices at being downgraded, says Prime Minister Freundel Stuart on last month’s International rating agency Moody’s downgrade of Barbados. “However, the downgrade has not altered any of the facilities to which Barbadians are entitled and to whic...
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Messages on “Insecure Haiti” Refuted

Port-au-Prince, (Prensa Latina) The Communications Ministry of Haiti leads today a campaign refuting a list the US and European media circulate placing Haiti among the most unsafe countries in the world, an allegation it declares false and to prove otherwise it quotes reports from different internat...
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Increased cases of dengue fever

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados has recorded a significant increase in dengue cases last year even as health authorities were reporting a decline in confirmed cases during a four week period leading up to mid-December last year. Official figures released here show that for the four-week ...
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Private sector group wants agreement honoured

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC –The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) on Monday called on government to honour the agreement reached with the Region Council that brought an end to the crisis in the mining town of Linden last year including the deaths of three people. “Moreover...
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Prof Sankat re-appointed principal

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Professor Clement Sankat has been re-appointed as pro vice-chancellor and principal of the St Augustine Campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) for a further four years, until his retirement on September 30, 2016. The announcement was made by Professor E Nigel Har...
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War of words between radio personality and PM’s attorney

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – A radio announcer has pointed an accusing finger at the attorney for Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit as being the source of secret and confidential information about the head of government being aired on a local radio station in December last year. The Integrity in Pu...
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Group wants de la Bastide to be President

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Michael de la Bastide is being nominated as a candidate to be T&T’s fifth President by the 851 members of a Facebook group. It was created by De La Bastide's brother, Peter. The electoral college will vote on the presidency on February 15 and many believe the...
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Reform urgent for head of state choice

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - High on the list of coming attractions with potential to fulfill or disappoint hopes for a bright and prosperous new year is constitution reform. Late last year, Legal Affairs Minister Prakash Ramadhar, who is also leader of the Congress of the People, described the process...
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