10
Feb
Caribbean Headliners/News
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Turks and Caicos
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 ST JOHN’S, Antigua: Political leader of the opposition Antigua Labour Party (ALP), Lester Bird, said that his party disdains violence in any form, and called on everyone to do the same. Bird cleared the air on his earlier comments on telecommunications. He said he was misconstrued. read more…
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 ST JOHN’S, Antigua: Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Baldwin Spencer, who is also the leader of the governing United Progressive Party (UPP), announced at a party rally on Sunday evening that parliament would be dissolved on Monday. The dissolution of parliament takes the country close to elections. read more…
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 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Former Barbados Prime Minister Owen Arthur has accused the government of posturing instead of stating the facts as it relates to CLICO Holdings Barbados Limited. Arthur told a packed hall in Speightstown, St Peter, on Sunday that the Barbados-based CLICO Holdings could not be well. read more…
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (BGIS): Government should soon know those persons who have controlling interests in monopolies in Barbados. Minister of Economic Affairs and Empowerment, Innovation, Trade, Industry and Commerce, David Estwick, has announced efforts to stamp out this practice. read more…
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HAVANA, Cuba (ACN): Cuba and Venezuela are developing more than ten collaboration projects in the geology and mining sectors as part of a comprehensive cooperation agreement between the two nations. Another objective is to train the needed human resources to make Venezuela a mining power. read more…
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HOLGUIN, Cuba (ACN): Cuban biotechnology has taken its scientific results to some 58 countries of the world, said the director of the Molecular Immunology Center, Doctor Agustin Lage in a key lecture in this eastern province. The expansion of the sector reveals the potential of the Cuban scientific community. read more…
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 GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA): The traditional sectors (sugar, rice and bauxite) provide a very large proportion of Guyana’s export earnings and provide employment for thousands of Guyanese. Modernization of these sectors will be a part of the government’s agenda for 2009. read more…
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KINGSTON, Jamaica (Reuters): Alumina Partners of Jamaica and its workers’ union implemented an agreement on Monday that avoids further layoffs but reduces the work week for the next four months. The agreement guarantees that some 600 workers would be employed for at least three days a week. read more…
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 LONDON, England (JIS): Cabinet has approved a submission to set up a statutory body to focus on the development of a financial centre in Jamaica, Senator Don Wehby said. A board will be announced shortly and a special consultant appointed to fast-track the necessary legislation. read more…
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KINGSTON, Jamaica(JIS): Jamaica could become the business and industrial hub of the Caribbean and the Americas, thanks to the opportunities presented under the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), signed recently between CARIFORUM States and the European Union (EU). read more…
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 KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS): Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett, has confirmed a 3.4 per cent growth in visitor arrivals for January, compared with the same period last year. He said this would be “the largest number of visitors to have ever come to Jamaica in the month of January, in any year.” read more…
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| Montserrat | |
 LITTLE BAY, Montserrat: DanceExcell, with its motto Dancing with Excellence, staged a spectacular show at Montserrat’s Cultural Centre at the end of January. The show was entitled “The Journey, Step by Step” reflecting the journey which DanceExcell has taken since its founding in 2004. read more…
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico: US Coast Guard, Puerto Rico Police and Puerto Rico Emergency Management Agency rescue crews are searching for possible survivors of a Cessna 206 single-engine aircraft that went down on Sunday in waters located approximately half a mile off the coast of Quebradillas, Puerto Rico. read more…
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 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico: In what many Puerto Rican attorneys have described as the most important trial in the island’s history, former Gov. Aníbal Acevedo Vilá pleaded not guilty to campaign finance charges that could send him to prison for 20 years, on Monday at the federal courthouse in San Juan. read more…
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BASSETERRE, St Kitts: Four Seasons has extended the closure of its resort on Nevis. Director of Public Relations Tara MacIntyre said the resort will remain closed until October 31, 2009, to undergo a renovation resulting from Hurricane Omar, which passed through the islands of St Kitts and Nevis in October 2008. read more…
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NEW YORK, USA (Reuters): Engineering and construction group Fluor Corp said it and partner McDermott International Inc have started gas production at an offshore platform built for BG Group’s Trinidad and Tobago unit. The project was the largest ever offshore platform built in Trinidad and Tobago. read more…
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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (AFP): After spending 25 days swimming across the Atlantic, it took Jennifer Figge a while to get back her land legs after landing inTrinidad. “It’s a new experience to hit land and put on my tennis shoes”, the 56-year-old said as she claimed the title of being the first woman to swim the Atlantic. read more…
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ST CROIX, USVI: Inspectors from the USVI Department of Licensing and Consumer Affairs issued fines against the operators of seventeen gasoline service stations on St Croix Monday after it was discovered that they increased prices on gasoline products in anticipation of a planned increase. read more…
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 CARACAS, Venezuela (Bloomberg): NuStar Energy LP said Venezuela canceled four shipments of crude oil after trimming output to comply with reduced quotas from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Venezuela said it has cut daily output by 364,000 barrels since September. read more…
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CARACAS, Venezuela (Bloomberg): Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said the global economic crisis hasn’t touched “even a hair” of the Venezuelan economy, even as the plunge in oil prices slashes export revenue for the OPEC member country. Venezuela’s savings helped it prepare for the drop in oil prices, Chavez said. read more…
source: caribbeannetnews.com
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PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands: On Monday afternoon, Arthur Robinson, an elected Member of Parliament, chased and caught four armed robbers who were fleeing in a vehicle after robbing his gas station in Blue Hills, Providenciales, in the Turks and Caicos Islands. 
POINTE-A-PITRE, Guadeloupe (AFP): Thousands of people demonstrated on Monday in Guadeloupe, denouncing the return to Paris of the Secretary of State to the Overseas Territories, Yves Jégo, at a time of crisis. Protest marches also paralysed Fort-de-France in Martinique. A meeting of ministers is planned for Tuesday. 
NASSAU, Bahamas (BIS): The Minister of National Security, Tommy Turnquest, led a delegation of government officials from the Bahamas to Jamaica recently to observe the government of Jamaica’s Electronic Monitoring of Offenders Pilot Project. Turnquest made a courtesy call on Senator Arthur Williams. 
ROAD TOWN, BVI: The government of the British Virgin islands is reporting a slowdown in the growth of new incorporations in the financial services sector but there is optimism about the future. Premier Ralph O’Neal made the disclosure as he responded to to a question posed by the Leader of the Opposition. 
HAVANA, Cuba (Bloomberg): Cuba’s government will begin licensing private cab drivers to operate in cities for the first time since 1999 in the latest effort by President Raul Castro to liberalize the communist island-nation’s economy. Urban cab drivers will be allowed to negotiate rates with passengers. 
ROSEAU, Dominica: Taxi operators showed their concerns last week over what they called ‘unfair treatment’ given to taxi drivers in Dominica. Protests were held after some of the drivers registered under the Combined Taxi Association claimed that drivers with ‘organized tours’ are given preferential treatment. 
GEORGETOWN, Guyana: President Bharrat Jagdeo has held his first round of cooperation talks with Libyan leader Muammar El-Qaddafi while on an official visit to that country. The Libyan leader and Jagdeo met and discussed a cooperative relationship between the two unions of Africa and Latin America. 
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA): The Ministry of Agriculture has dispatched 12 teams to various regions affected by heavy rainfall to conduct a verification exercise to assess the extent of losses suffered by farmers. Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud said that the verification process is still ongoing. 
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA): Two new acting magistrates have been inducted to serve in the judicial system following a process of selection by the Judicial Services Commission (JSC). Magistrates Dale Kingston and Judy Latchman were officially sworn in at the Office of the Prime Minister. 
KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS): Jamaica’s Minister of State with responsibility of Local Government Robert Montague, has said that the effectiveness of local governance depends greatly on the ability of individuals and institutions to be fully aware of their responsibilities and to be enabled to perform them. 
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico: Labor Department Secretary designate Miguel Romero called on Governor Luis Fortuño to carefully analyze the suggestions made by the Fiscal and Economic Reconstruction Advisory Board regarding firing 11,000 public workers and freezing all collective bargaining agreements. 
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Opposition leader Basdeo Panday is not in favour of certain clauses in the new draft Constitution, which was laid in Parliament last Friday by Prime Minister Patrick Manning. Panday told the Newsday newspaper in an interview that the proposal of a Ministry of Justice would politicise the judiciary. 