Barbados
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May 14, 2013904
Threats to traditional knowledge outlined
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Consultations conducted within the Caribbean region have revealed that there are numerous threats to traditional knowledge (TK). Regional Consultant with the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), Mary Ann Richards says that there is a lack of knowledge about the contribution that TK has made in the past and can make in the future to development. She made…
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May 14, 2013927
Dr. Brathwaite: Country has no control
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbados should be conscious of its food supply, as the ability to withstand external shocks such as a nuclear accident, major terrorist attack, natural disaster or any international event that disrupts the movement of food to Barbados or leads to international food price increases, could leave us very vulnerable indeed. According to Dr. Chelston Brathwaite, an agriculture…
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May 14, 2013975
Climate adaptation measures not expensive, says UWI lecturer
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbados may have few excuses as to why it is falling behind in implementing certain climate adaptation measures, but money cannot be one of them. Speaking at a seminar last Thursday which examined “Water Management, Health and Climate Change Adaptation”, presenter Dr. Adrian Cashman, Senior Lecturer in Water Resources Management at the University of the West Indies…
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May 13, 2013856
Revenue dip . . . But Govt spending to jump to $3.87 billion
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The challenges confronting the just re-elected Freundel Stuart administration are already showing up in the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure laid in Parliament yesterday. Government is projecting that total revenue coming into state coffers for the 2013-2014 financial year will fall to $2.59 billion from the $2.62 billion approved for 2012 -2013. The administration estimates that it…
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May 13, 2013900
OAS urges strengthening of transparency in political financing
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Jose Miguel Inzulsa,has called for greater equity and transparency in the systems of political financing in the Caribbean. Addressing the regional forum, “Strengthening Regulation of Political Parties and Political Financing Systems in the Caribbean,” the OAS chief said these are necessary “not only for the consolidation of…
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May 13, 2013942
A wait-and-see situation
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – EVERYONE will wait to see what comes out of the meeting which the LIAT shareholder governments said they want to have with the Government of Trinidad and Tobago. It is a meeting that could determine the way forward for the region’s airlines which are facing challenges in relation to operational costs. The subject of the discussions is…
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May 13, 2013935
Agro vision
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – FORMER DIRECTOR GENERAL of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, Dr. Chelston Brathwaite, has called for a new focus on local agriculture that will bring benefits including a reduction in the food import bill. He said the new vision for agriculture should have a focus on making it an integral part of driving agro-related sectors of…
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May 13, 2013981
EDITORIAL: Make it clear for Canadians
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The news that our offshore sector was recently severely criticized in the Canadian parliament is one more inconvenient truth that the Barbados economic policymakers will have to face. In a report earlier this month, the Standing Committee on Finance of that country’s parliament made recommendations to its government on a number of proposals to come down hard…
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May 13, 2013941OAS CSEP Project Host Workshop on Energy Efficiency Designs for Office and Public Buildings in Tropical Climates
The Organisation of Amercan States (OAS) Secretariat through the Caribbean Sustainable Energy Program (CSEP) and the Energy Efficiency Working Group of the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA), hosted a workshop on energy efficiency designs for office and public buildings in tropical climates. The event took place at the Bay Gardens Inn in Rodney Bay from February 28th…
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May 10, 2013858
EDITORIAL: Need to reflect on our history
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – One of the inescapable incidents of man’s inhumanity to man is the need for reflection on events which some of us would rather forget. Slavery, in our case, and the Holocaust, in the case of the Jews, are two examples of such atrocities, but modern-day ethnic cleansing and the whole colonial experience also come to mind. Two…
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