Term Slug
news

Pilots association denies members planning strike action

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC - The Leeward Islands Airline Pilots Association (LIALPA) says its members are not involved in any industrial action as the Antigua-based airline, LIAT, deals with a number of problems including flight cancellations in recent days. LIALPA said it had also taken objection to remarks made by the airline’s chief executive. Brunton had indicated that the cash-strapped company would not have had to further deepen its cash flow problems by, “pulling in contract crews which we may not need, if everybody puts their pedal to the wheel.”

Barbados records increase in syphilis cases

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados health authorities say they are monitoring what seems to be an increase in the number of syphilis cases on the island.
The Ministry of Health said that recent studies have revealed that a growing number of persons were testing positive for the sexually transmitted infection (STI). It gave no figures.
They authorities say they are now in the process of enhancing their monitoring systems for syphilis and other STIs, as well as gathering data for more detailed analyses that would allow them to determine those who were most at risk.

Economy ‘hurt’ by exodus of non-nationals

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The exodus of a number of non-nationals from Barbados in recent times has affected the economy in a negative way. Mia Mottley, leader of the Opposition Barbados Labour Party stated this as she addressed a meeting of the St Vincent and Grenadines Association at the Clement Payne Centre on Monday night. “I am not going to be divisive but I think that the experience of having persons leave our shores has now proven itself to be one that you might want to revisit . . . because the depletion of spending power has . . .

Rescue plan

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The Barbados Private Sector Association (BPSA) has its own plan to save the Barbados economy. The first two areas on its to-do list are for Government to reduce the country’s national debt by selling off non-strategic, non-core Government assets such as Hilton Barbados to pay down on debt, and sell strategic assets to credit unions, pension funds or even the public by way of share offerings.

After Warner’s triumph

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - JACK WARNER’S convincing victory in Monday’s by-election for the Chaguanas West constituency can be subjected to varying political interpretations. These will undoubtedly be coming in the days ahead from political scientists and other media commentators.

The UNC’s options in Chaguanas West

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - In their concession speeches on Monday night, both the defeated United National Congress candidate Khadijah Ameen and her leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar promised to continue the “work” in Chaguanas West.
This being politics, however, the services provided by the Government to that rebel constituency will most likely be determined by whichever strategy the ruling UNC decides best serves its electoral prospects.

‘By-election won’t affect investors’

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - It is still too early to determine what sort of impact Jack Warner’s victory in Monday’s Chaguanas West by-election will have on investor confidence in Trinidad and Tobago, president of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) Hugh Howard said yesterday. In a brief telephone interview, Howard said businessmen and investors were not going to be influenced by a by-election, but rather how the governance of the party engenders confidence.

FALLOUT

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Jack Warner’s victory in Chaguanas West has laid bare some uncertainties within the People’s Partnership coalition. The People’s Partnership, which won 29 seats in May 2010, started out with a 21/6/2 equation—21 United National Congress (UNC) members, six from the Congress of the People (COP) and two from the Tobago Organisation of the People (TOP). By yesterday, with the resignation of St Joseph MP Herbert Volney from the UNC and the electoral success of the Independent Liberal Party (ILP) leader Warner, the UNC numbers were reduced to 19.

Warner’s ILP will decide on membership in People’s Partnership gov

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Interim leader of the Independent Liberal Party (ILP), Austin Jack” Warner Tuesday said it would be “premature” to say whether or not his party would seek membership of the People’s Partnership government following his convincing victory in the Chaguanas West by-election here on Monday night.
Speaking on a television programme, Warner, who trounced the People’s Partnership candidate Khadijah Ameen by a two to one margin, said that his party would be meeting later this week to discuss the issue.

Volney resigns from ruling United National Congress

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former justice minister Herbert Volney Tuesday resigned from the ruling United National Congress (UNC), less than a day after the party suffered a humiliating defeat in its stronghold of Chaguanas West in southern Trinidad.
In a letter sent to the party’s general secretary, Dave Tancoo, the former High Court judge said a statement made by Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar on television following the UNC defeat showed that she “has no interest in keeping me in the fold of her government”.

Subscribe to News