KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves Monday said he had instructed his lawyers to write a newspaper and a columnist seeking an apology over a story it ran regarding the charges laid against opposition senator report Vynnette Frederick.
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – More than 150 delegates are in Grenada attending the 19th Regional meeting on bird conservation for the Caribbean. Organised by the Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds (SCSCB), it is being held under the theme “ Bird Conservation in a Changing Climate”. SCSCB president Dr Howard Nelson President described the conference “as an invaluable opportunity share a growing body of knowledge that showed that climate change has broad far-reaching environmental impacts with both conservationists and the public at large.”
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC - Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony leaves here for Ecuador to attend the XII Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples’ Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP).
The meeting on Tuesday brings together heads of state or governments, with St. Lucia hoping to formalise its entry into the ALBA group in keeping with the announcement made by Governor General Dame Perlette Louisy earlier this year.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC - Jamaica will host the 8th Annual Caribbean Conference on Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM) in December, the executive director of the Barbados-based Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), Ronald Jackson, has said. More than 400 delegates are expected to attend the December 2-6 conference which will be held under the theme “CDM for Resilient Development: A Good Investment”. The annual conference is the Caribbean’s premier event on disaster risk management.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados government will table legislation next month to promote green energy, Finance and Economic Affairs Minister Chris Sinckler has said.
Sinckler said the Freundel Stuart government has devised practical ways to build out the alternative energy sector through policy, legislation and fiscal incentives, which will ensure that in terms both of supply and demand, there are reasonable and cost effective solutions available.
KINGSTON, Jamaica - The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) must quickly decide whether it is up to the job it is mandated to perform. If it is not, it must move over and let someone else get on with it. We especially refer to the agency's ability to determine Jamaica's future energy needs, the fuel mix that will meet those requirements at the cheapest cost, and to evaluate bids that will deliver power most economically. To be frank, this newspaper is not now sanguine of the OUR's capacity to deliver.
BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS, CMC – The Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C) says it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), formalising a collaborative relationship for addressing water priorities in the region. It said the MOU signifies a building block for change as there is undoubtedly a need for greater cooperation on water-related issues in the region.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - TAX BREAKS FOR businesses and individuals who produce and use alternative energy are among a wide range of concessions coming under long-awaited green legislation. The financing for the initiative has been also approved by the Central Bank.
LYON, France, CMC - The international police organization (INTERPOL), says it has launched a new tool enabling Caribbean countries to exchange information on fraudulent identity and travel documents. Known as Dial-Doc (Digital INTERPOL Alert Library Document), INTERPOL said that the technology, launched in collaboration with the Group of Eight of the world’s most industrialized powers (G8), “makes it easy for officials in any of INTERPOL’s 190 member-countries to check if a travel document is fake, through comparison with worldwide images of counterfeit documents.
Dajabón, Dominican Republic.- Haiti officials yesterday eased restrictions and allowed their compatriots to return with products bought in the market held Mondays and Fridays on the Dominican side of the border at Dajabón, despite the import ban in effect for some of them.
The surprising flexibility shown by Haitian officials prompted the Dajabón Merchants Association to meet and agreed to adopt a wait and see attitude, since the market appears to start returning to normal.