Barbados

  • August 5, 2013
    854

    Transhipment potential highlighted by Tourism Minister

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate – BARBADOS has potential to do more transhipment business from both ports of entry. Tourism Minister Richard Sealy says it is with this recognition that some changes will be needed to facilitate an around the clock operation. According to Sealy, “What we are saying is that there are some legislative adjustments and other things we would have…

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  • August 5, 2013
    874

    Wrong way

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nation News – BARBADIANS TOOK THEIR eyes off productivity in the last decade and this has led to the current economic woes, says CARICOM ambassador Robert “Bobby” Morris. Stating that Government started “pelting money at problems” once it got past the difficulties of the 1990s, Morris said such a system could never have been sustainable once salaries and…

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  • August 2, 2013
    987

    ST. KITTS-POLITICS-Opposition concerned over silence by regional leaders to political situation

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Aug 1, CMC – Opposition legislators say they are concerned at the continued silence of Caribbean leaders to the ongoing political situation in St. Kitts-Nevis and are warning of possible violence in the future. Leader of the main opposition People’s Action Movement (PAM), Shawn Richards, told the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) that to date, none of the regional…

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  • August 2, 2013
    1,071

    Reparation talk critical

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate – “In order to complete [the] circle of economic freedom and the quest for political and economic enfranchisement … as a government, we have to confront the issue of reparation … this issue, as you know, remains an elusive quest for justice.” This is the suggestion of Minister of Culture, Youth Family and Sport, Stephen Lashley, as…

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  • July 31, 2013
    851

    EDITORIAL: No solution in sight in Egypt

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – That the ouster of Egypt’s first democratically elected President Mohammad Morsi was a military coup should not be debatable. Subsequent developments however confirm the view that though the majority party governs, the army always rules. It is also testimony to the failure of the first phase of the tenuous nature of Egypt’s spontaneous revolution that coalesced around…

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  • July 31, 2013
    990

    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…

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  • July 31, 2013
    1,062

    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…

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  • July 31, 2013
    909

    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…

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  • July 31, 2013
    895

    Get more youth involved

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The world’s population is expected to reach nine billion by 2025. If for no other reason, this fact should place the issue of food and water security at the top of any national agenda. How will all of these people be fed? Will we be able to produce enough food? How will we engage in the type…

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  • July 31, 2013
    924

    Nicholls: Caribbean needs several engines

    BRIDGETOWN—Caribbean countries have been warned not to lose sight of the bigger goal of economic transformation and development even as they remain pre-occupied with overall economic growth. Former deputy director of the Central Bank of T&T Dr Shelton Nicholls said Caribbean countries “need to ensure that the strategies and that we are currently grappling with to rekindle economic growth do…

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