ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC - Health Minister Julius Timothy, 61, has returned to Dominica less than a week after he was flown to the neighbouring French island of Martinique for medical treatment.
The state-owned DBS radio confirmed Timothy’s return, but gave no details about his ailment.
Last week, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said Timothy, who had collapsed at his office, had complained of numbness in certain parts of his body and had urged nationals to pray for his recovery.
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CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – The European Union is providing EC$37 million (One EC dollar = US$0.37 cents) over a five year period to St. Lucia under the Banana Accompanying Measures (BAM) to finance the government’s Agricultural Transformation Programme (ATP).
“Today marks another milestone on our journey towards the restructuring of our agricultural sector. This we hope to achieve through specific interventions in a bid to make it more sustainable and competitive for the future,” said Prime Minister and Minister and Finance, Dr. Kenny Anthony.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Vice-chairman of Caribbean Airlines Ltd (CAL) Mohan Jaikaran is proving the state enterprise is not cash-strapped, as he has requested 19 complimentary airline tickets for a Mother’s Day concert scheduled for New York City and Toronto this weekend, of which he is a co-promoter. The directive caused raised eyebrows among management, as two weeks ago there were reports that the national carrier had once again turned to the Government for funding, to the tune of $100 million.
KINGSTON, Jamaica - A high-level team from Trinidad and Tobago is to arrive in the island in a few weeks to hammer out an arrangement with the Jamaican Government over recent actions relating to Caribbean Airlines (CAL), including the carrier's plan to drastically reduce flights to Jamaica.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Some visitors to Barbados have been giving the Grantley Adams International Airport (GAIA) negative reviews on various websites. And they are especially critical about the attitude of customs and immigration officers. Discerning travellers are going on websites such as Britishexpats.com, TripAdvisor.com and Barbados.airport-authority.com, to name a few, to write their experiences for the world to see. “A special kind of hell” was how one British visitor writing on TripAdvisor.com last September described the GAIA.
KINGSTON, Jamaica - JAMAICA is among 30 trading partners of the United States of America placed on a 2013 Intellectual Property Watch List, described as "meriting bilateral attention to address underlying Intellectual Property Rights problems". It joins Barbados, Belarus, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, Greece, Guatemala, Israel, Italy, Kuwait, Lebanon, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, the Philippines, Romania, Tajikistan, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Last Friday, Malay Mishra, India’s High Commissioner to T&T, arrived from Grenada on Liat flight 727. No immigration forms were issued on the flight, and everyone, flight crew included, had to fill out the required forms on entry at the Piarco Terminal. What happened after Mr Mishra entered the building remains almost perfectly inexplicable. The diplomat went to the appropriate queue reserved for such officials, the first indicator that he was not a casual passenger on the flight.
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – Prime Minister Perry Christie is in the United States for talks with potential investors as well as to attend the “christening of Norwegian Cruise Lines new cruise ship “Breakaway”, according to a government statement issued here.
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Grenada said Tuesday it is prepared to take its concerns to a “higher body” if Trinidad and Tobago does not live up to its commitment to resolve the restriction imposed on the import of honey from t6he neighbouring Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country. The issue was discussed at the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) meeting in Guyana last week where Grenada made a submission under the heading “Confiscation of Honey exported to Trinidad and Tobago”. According to Dr.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Farmers operating out of Norris Deonarine Wholesale Market in Macoya have complained that too much space is being inhabited by those selling produce from outside the country. Terrence Haywood, head of the National Foodcrop Farmers Association (NFFA), said yesterday goods bought on the open CARICOM market are flooding the Macoya facility and local farmers are now competing for limited space, as well as having to match the prices of the regional goods.