BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - LOCAL FARMERS ARE tired of hearing the same thing over and over on praedial larceny.
Tempers flared as farmers and others involved in agriculture vented their frustration yesterday at their continuous losses from crop and animal theft and what they said was the inability of the police and the court to do anything about the problem.
“I am tired, sick, fed up,” dairy farmer Annette Beckett told the packed Flamboyant North room at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre. “Can’t tek nuh mo’ of these types of meetings.”
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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - A broadband fibre optic network called C@ribNET has been launched to connect tertiary institutions, schools, hospitals and other educational establishments to knowledge development and research platforms, paving the way for enhanced interconnectivity and collaboration among Caribbean states.
The historic launch took place at the National Academy for the Performing Arts Centre (NAPA), Port-of-Spain, on February 26 under the theme, Collaboration, Co-operation, Community.
If you wanted to get large numbers of people actively engaged in helping to solve global warming, how might you go about it? For years, the main approach in the environmental movement has been to sound the alarm bell and implore people to consume less, switch to green products, recycle, and speak up to companies and politicians. It hasn’t always been an easy sell. However, if the approach of a promising Oakland-based start-up takes hold, there may be another line of action that could become available to ordinary people_ directly financing renewable energy.
CARACAS -- President Hugo Chávez won an additional six-year term in October but was never sworn in. When he died Tuesday, after an 18-month battle with cancer, it revived questions about exactly who should be in charge of this oil-rich nation until new elections can be held. The constitution says that if a president dies before taking office, then the head of the National Assembly, in this case, Diosdado Cabello, should take charge and oversee elections within 30 days.
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua - This week much of our region is grieving. Flags across the Caribbean and Latin America are being flown at half-mast. Several countries have declared three days of official mourning. In many more, heads are bowed in sorrow and silent reflection. In Antigua & Barbuda and beyond, thousands are swathed in a wave of sadness as we come to terms with the loss of one of history’s most vibrant, vocal and vociferous leaders. Around the world, reactions to the news of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s death at 58 have been slightly more diverse.
St. John’s Antigua- The country is to observe three days of mourning for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez who died after a two-year battle with cancer on Tuesday. Flags across the nation will also be flown at half-mast in tribute to the flamboyant leftist leader, described by the Prime Minister as a “positive symbol of hope” for the region. PM Baldwin Spencer, in making the announcement last night, said the Caribbean owed Venezuela a “debt of gratitude” in return for Chavez’s generous fiscal policies which pumped money into several struggling nations.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Like others in this hemisphere and around the world, people in Trinidad and Tobago were naturally drawn to the larger-than-life figure of drama and colour projected by the late president Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.
His geopolitical influence and ambitions thrust way beyond the boundaries of the republic he dominated for 14 years, reaching even intimately into the English-speaking Caribbean. Somehow, however, T&T remained relatively untouched by more than the engaging theatrics that characterised "Chavismo".
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves Wednesday joined his Caribbean Community (CARICOM) colleagues in acknowledging that the death of Venezuela’s president Hugo Chavez has left a void and many of his tasks unfinished.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's death on Tuesday is unlikely to have any impact on trade between that country and Trinidad and Tobago, Trade Minister Vasant Bharath said yesterday.
In a telephone interview with the Express, Bharath said he met with new Venezuelan Ambassador Coromoto Godoy Calderon last week to discuss the possibility of a T&T trade mission to Venezuela to facilitate an improved trade relationship.
He said he was looking at some time in June or July for the mission to take place.
KINGSTON, Jamaica - Venezuela's oil production is poised to reverse a dramatic decline that has seen exports fall by nearly half during Hugo Chávez's time as president. Following Chávez's death Tuesday, Venezuela, which is a member of OPEC and sits on the world's second-largest oil reserves, faces near-term political uncertainty that could bring further turmoil to its oil industry. And even under the best circumstances it would take years to increase production and exports, analysts say. But any new government would have a powerful economic incentive to make that a top priority.