BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The fight against crime goes on. Varying reports suggest that countries within the region are facing escalating levels of crime – some unarguably more alarming than others. The crimes vary from drug trafficking to firearms, theft and bodily harm, as well as cyber-crimes. Three interdependent approaches to countering this scourge bear heavily on the mind. Firstly, it’s a fight of morality.
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PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Former president Jean Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier has been hospitalised, but his lawyer Reynold Georges has declined to name the medical institution where his client is receiving treatment.
Georges said that Duvalier, 61, was taken to hospital after he testified last week on human rights abuses and embezzlement associated with his 15-year rule.
His hospitalisation is the second occasion that Duvalier has sought medical treatment. In 2011, he checked into a hospital for unspecified chest pains.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Two weeks after being replaced as party leader following the Barbados Labour Party’s (BLP) February 21 defeat at the polls, Owen Arthur says he is not disturbed by no longer being at the helm. “The notion of not leading the BLP is not a problem for me . . . . I really have had a wonderful life in politics. I am not bitter at all,” Arthur told the media yesterday.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Two weeks after he failed in his bid to regain the position of prime minister of Barbados, Owen Arthur is now indicating that he intends writing his memoirs after having had a “wonderful life” in politics. "I will be writing my memoirs in three phases. One is called a country boy giving a perspective of what it was like growing up as a country boy in Barbados…and the one I like the most is my Jamaican days.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Prime Minister Freundel Stuart says he is anxiously awaiting the opening of a new session of Parliament and he is excited about the programme the Government has in place for the next five years. The Prime Minister made these comments recently, as he addressed members of the media, concerning the way forward for his Cabinet and the country. A new session of Parliament will be ushered in this week, as Governor General, Sir Elliott Belgrave delivers the Throne Speech in the Senate Chamber this Wednesday, March 6, beginning at 4_00 p.m.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – President Donald Ramotar has accused the opposition parties of using their one seat majority in the National Assembly to derail legislative democracy as the ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP) hinted at the possibility of calling a snap general election in Guyana.
WASHINGTON, CMC – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is heaping praise on a project in Jamaica that is providing new ways the transfer of cash to poor families in exchange for meeting certain conditions such as sending their children to school. The IDB said for more than two decades, several Latin American and Caribbean countries have transferred cash to poor families under the programme that has mproved the lives of millions of poor families.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Nurses in the Caribbean will sit the Regional Nursing Entrance Examinations (RENR) in October after the regional governing body agreed to a proposal by the Barbados-based Caribbean Examination Council (CXC). The proposal was discussed at the just concluded 41st joint meeting of the Executive and Education Committees and 10th Practice Committee of the Regional Nursing Body (RBN) held here.
UNITED NATIONS, CMC – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Monday said there is urgent need for stronger legislative measures to deal with the issue of violence against women and other obstacles to gender equality and women empowerment.
WASHINGTON, DC, USA (CMC) — A new World Bank study says a rise in sea levels by a metre from climate change could destroy more than 60 per cent of the Caribbean and the developing world's coastal wetlands currently found at one metre or less elevation.
The study says this could lead to economic losses of about US$630 million annually.
The World Bank analysis considered a variety of types of coastal wetlands at risk in 76 countries and territories, using a number of databases and satellite maps.