NASSAU, The Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas has recorded a decrease in serious crimes since the start of the year.
This includes a 24 per cent decrease in the number of murders “despite the recent reports of murders that we have heard about.” There has also been a 16 per cent drop in Crimes Against Property.
Nottage said the downward trend in crimes for the first two months of 2013 follows a pattern of decreases in crimes – including Murder and Armed Robbery – to close out the year 2012.
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - THE CARIBBEAN’S PREOCCUPATION with “leisure, pleasure and nice time” is hampering its productivity and progression, says Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines Dr Ralph Gonsalves.
Addressing the Caribbean Export Development Agency’s Exporters’ Colloquium at Hilton Barbados on Wednesday, he said people in the region were limiting themselves by not working hard enough and smart enough.
He noted that problems of labour and management productivity existed across a range of sectors, including agriculture, manufacturing and tourism.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti's most prominent political party said yesterday it will try again to run candidates in upcoming legislative elections after being banned in the two most recent votes.
Maryse Narcisse, a spokeswoman for the political party of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, said in an interview on the privately run station Radio Kiskeya that the Lavalas Family party plans to run in the still-unscheduled vote.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Haiti’s President and CARICOM Chairman Michel Martelly says his country is open for business.
His declaration came on Thursday at a news briefing at the CARICOM Secretariat at Lilliendaal, East Coast Demerara.
Martelly said they were looking to bring jobs into the country for their people as the country worked to recover from its economic turmoil.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - As in all areas of crime-fighting and, indeed, law and order, successive T&T administrations have fallen short in combating, let alone suppressing, the traffic in illicit drugs. As the United States State Department's latest Narcotics Report reminds T&T, this country has been less than a fully fledged ally in the US-led war on drugs.
KINGSTON, Jamaica - People who view politicians with scepticism and a great deal of suspicion are likely to dismiss the People's National Party's (PNP's) desire to address public perception of corruption in politics.
Yet, it is a burning issue that the ruling party should be commended for confronting with the hope of correcting in this its 75th year of existence.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – A delegation from the China EXIM Bank has arrived here for talks with government as Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer said his administration had repaid the funds borrowed to purchase the power plant at Crabbes.
“We are delighted that we have been able to close this loan agreement with the China EXIM Bank that was entered into by the former administration some 15 years ago. Last month we made the final payment of 2.2 million RMB (One Chinese dollar = US$0.16 cents) on the loan,” said Prime Minister Spencer.
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – The St. Lucia government Wednesday expressed its “most sincere gratitude and appreciation” to civil servants who have defied strike action by their colleagues over demands for increased salaries and have turned out to work. In a statement, the Kenny Anthony administration said that their selfless actions have ensured that vital governmental services to the general public have not been compromised and that it was not also obligated to pay workers who stayed away from their jobs. “The Government of St.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Police Social and Welfare Association (PSWA) Wednesday said that Acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams had been ill advised when he refused to grant permission to police officers to take a candle light vigil to the police administration building.
The PSWA is staging a prayer and candle light procession later on Wednesday night to demonstrate its rejection of the bid by the Kamla Persad Bissessar administration to give police powers to members of the Defence Force.
NEW YORK, CMC - Jamaican-born legislator, Nick Perry, is calling for more support for illegal Caribbean youths in the United States.
Perry, a New York State Assemblyman, who represents the predominantly Caribbean 58th Assembly District in Brooklyn, New York, said that he is standing firmly behind the New York State Assembly’s “million dollar commitment” to fund the creation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Tuition Fund.