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‘Disappointing progress’ on new flight path for LIAT – CDB
The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has weighed in on the slow pace of restructuring of regional airline LIAT, which is owned by Barbados and three other Eastern Caribbean Governments. CDB President Warren Smith said he was “disappointed” with progress towards executing a plan the bank funded to stem losses, improve efficiency and reverse a sharp decline…
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A “Venezuelan owned” solution: too much to hope?
By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the United States and the Organisation of American States. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and Massey College in the University of Toronto. The views expressed are entirely his own) Commentators in western…
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More hunters sign up for iguana cull in Cayman Islands
More than 100 new iguana hunters have signed up to take part in the islandwide eradication effort following another appeal for more hunters from the Department of Environment. Head of the DOE’s terrestrial resources unit, Fred Burton said the weekly cull totals had dropped from around 30,000 each week in the early months of the…
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CDB President calls for resilience, transformation to drive Regional economic growth
Although grappling with challenges related to climate change; wide fiscal deficits and high public debt; as well as high unemployment, the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) today projected that the Region’s economy is expected to grow by 2 per cent in 2019. CDB President, Dr. Warren Smith shared the Bank’s forecast at its Annual News Conference, held…
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Former LIAT employee awarded US$1.55 million in age discrimination case
Virgin Islands Daily News – A former LIAT employee fired as a result of age discrimination was awarded $1.55 million in damages by a jury on St. Croix on Tuesday. “I think the message it sends is that there’s no place for age discrimination in the Virgin Islands, and LIAT fired a man who worked…
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New initiative to end political violence in Venezuela
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders have joined their counterparts from Mexico and Uruguay in formalising a plan to address the complex situation that relates to Venezuela, through an initiative called the Montevideo Mechanism. A statement issued by the Office of the Prime Minister in Trinidad and Tobago, noted that the initiative is a response to a…
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New oil discoveries in Guyana
Guyana Wednesday announced that the US-based oil giant ExxonMobil had made two additional discoveries of oil offshore Guyana building on the previously announced estimated recoverable resource of more than five billion oil-equivalent barrels on the Stabroek block. “This continues to be positive news for the people of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, but the real…
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Opposition protest, calls for general elections in Guyana
Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo, Tuesday led supporters of the main opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) in a demonstration near the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) calling for fresh general and regional elections, as the government made good on its plan to file an appeal against a High Court ruling that re-affirmed its downfall following a vote…
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Venezuela crisis: US sending aid ‘at Guaidó’s request’
The US says it is sending aid to crisis-hit Venezuela following a request from Juan Guaidó, the opposition leader who has declared himself interim president. Guaidó’s move last month won swift backing from the US and others but triggered a power struggle. Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro has accused him of mounting a coup and retains…
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Give Uruguay Meeting a chance to bring settlement to Venezuela crisis
By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Ambassador of Antigua and Barbuda to the United States and the Organisation of American States. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and at Massey College in the University of Toronto. The views expressed are entirely his own) The Heads…