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Thompson and Jagdeo challenge business leaders |
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008 |
GEORGETOWN – Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson has challenged
Caribbean business operators to rethink their strategies and techniques
in light of the current global financial turmoil, a call that was
echoed by Guyana’s President Bharrat Jagdeo.
Thompson issued the challenge while making a presentation on financing
development in the region at the Guyana Manufacturing Association’s
annual dinner and awards ceremony here Friday evening.
He said production in the Caribbean has been far from optimum levels
and expressed the view that there was need to change the region’s
business culture.
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PM wages war against sex offenders, child abuse |
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Sunday, 02 November 2008 |
With new light being shed on the problem of sexual offenses against
women and children in Jamaica, the government is attempting to address
the issue with the Sex Offences Bill, which Prime Minister Bruce
Golding said they are working to make law by yearend.
Unlike in the US, where sex offenders have to be registered, and are
prohibited from living or just being within a certain distance of
schools and parks, sex offenders in Jamaica are placed back into
society after serving their time, without such restrictions.
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St. Kitts opposition gearing up |
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Sunday, 02 November 2008 |
BASSETERRE – Opposition leader Lindsay Grant says the People’s Action
Movement (PAM) is gearing up for elections by the first quarter of next
year and remains very confident that the people will elect for change.
Speaking with the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) as the ruling St.
Kitts and Nevis Labor Party (SKLP) of Prime Minister Denzil Douglas
marked the fourth year of its third term in office, Grant suggested
there was currently no reason for the country to celebrate and that the
current government was in a state of quandary.
“We expect elections in the first quarter of next year…in fact we were
preparing for a November election so we are in gear; all our candidates
have been chosen and we just await such time,” he said.
The PAM leader also pointed to the so-called ‘winds of political
change’ that have been blowing strongly across the Caribbean over the
past two years and have been responsible for sweeping several
governments from office.
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Sunday, 02 November 2008 |
CASTRIES - Preparatory work has begun for the construction of a
multibillion-dollar oil refinery here by the global energy company,
Hess Corporation, Communications and Works Minister Guy Joseph has
announced.
"Quite a substantial amount of money has been committed to the
feasibility studies and the studies undertaken so far conclude that
there will be no problems putting in the refinery," Joseph told the
Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC).
"From all indications things look very good because I don't think Hess
would spend this kind of money in feasibility studies and all that for
nothing."
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U.N. to give $10 M package to Haiti |
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Sunday, 02 November 2008 |
ROME, Italy – Two United Nations food agencies are setting up a $10.2 million aid package for to aid small farmers in Haiti and boost agricultural production in the impoverished and storm-ravaged country.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) about 240,000 farmers in Haiti will receive seeds and plants over the next 15 months under an agreement with the Haitian government.
The $10M package will come from the International Fund for Agricultural Development, which works to help small farmers and is based in Rome along with the FAO.
Haiti recently suffered four tragic hurricanes recently which have destroyed about 60 percent of that country’s harvest. Haiti, which has for years been plagued by social, economic and political turmoil earlier this year, had deadly food riots because of the debilitating food crisis.
As more hunger looms over the impoverished nation, developed and developing countries have been coming to Haiti, to stem the tide of hunger and unrest.
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