KINGSTON, Jamaica - Those who are wont to decry - and there are many - the quality and efficacy of anything formulated and executed in the Caribbean might give thought to the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC).
The CXC is an institution of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). It sets secondary-school examinations, primarily for students in this region, assuming a place of primacy formerly occupied by the English examination bodies, Cambridge and London universities.
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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Despite the economic difficulties in the Eurozone area, the European Union (EU) will continue to fund projects in the Caribbean, Christian Leffler, Director of Latin America Section in the European External Action Service said yesterday.
CHARLESTOWN, Nevis, CMC – A four member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) electoral observer mission arrived here one day ahead of the Nevis Island Assembly elections to monitor the conduct of the poll.
The team is led by Jamaican electoral official Pauline Welsh, the Director of Legal Affairs, Development and Research at the Electoral Office of Jamaica.
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – The newly formed National United Front (NUF) says it will contest three of the 15 seats in the February 19 general elections and dismissed suggestions that it should be regarded as a breakaway faction of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC).
The party, which held its first convention on Sunday and elected Glynnis Roberts as its leader, said that while it is not yet in a position to govern the country, the intention is to be represented in the parliament.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has hinted that he is likely to name the date for the next general elections within a few weeks time.
But he says he will only announce the date after he meets with the Governor General Elliott Belgrave.
“Let there be no mistake that the (opposition) Barbados Labour Party has been calling for an election, and that election is coming. I am not going to tell them when it is before I tell the Governor General, he has to know first.
CHARLESTOWN, Nevis, CMC – Premier Joseph Parry says his ruling Nevis Reformation Party (NRP) will win four of the five seats at stake in Tuesday’s Nevis Island Administration( NIA) even as his challenger, the Concerned Citizens Movement, (CCM) said it too was confident of taking control of the legislative body.
“We are satisfied that we have taken the national debate to the nation and there are five seats being contested and I expect to take four seats comfortably,” Parry told the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC).
SCARBOROUGH, Tobago, CMC – The main opposition People’s National Movement (PNM) has won a landslide victory in the Tobago House of Assembly (THA), with preliminary results showing that the party has won all 12 seats.
Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar, who, along with senior members of her coalition People’s Partnership government, had campaigned heavily in support of the Tobago Organisation of the People, (TOP), one of the four partners of the coalition, conceded defeat.
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua - Colonialism and its concomitant result, slavery, has been perhaps the worst episode in human history that demonstrates the inhumanity of man to man. Whereas slavery existed for thousands of years on this earth, the European scramble for Africa produced chattel slavery. One of the by-products of this system was the listing of human beings as slaves in the estate balance sheets in plantations of the New World. This placed them in the same category as horses, cattle, dogs and donkeys.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday that he's optimistic that Hugo Chavez will soon return to Venezuela following cancer-related surgery in Cuba. Maduro said that he and other government officials "are always optimistic that we are going to have the president here with us sooner rather than later," but he did not
Cuban authorities are scrambling to contain a cholera outbreak that has sickened dozens of people in Havana, the capital city of 2.2 million residents and a popular tourism destination. In a brief communiqué issued on Tuesday, the Health Ministry said the outbreak was first detected on Jan. 6, and was being contained. "Fifty-one cases have been confirmed to date," the statement read, without mentioning fatalities.