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Dominica PM praises ALBA and PetroCaribe

Hon. Roosevelt Skerrit, Prime Minister of Dominica

Hon. Roosevelt Skerrit, Prime Minister of Dominica

ROSEAU, Dominica, 10 April 2013 (CMC) – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has stoutly defended the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) and PetroCaribe saying they underscored a determination of a people to write their own script for their future socio-economic development.

The two Venezuela initiatives had been at the forefront of efforts by the late President Hugo Chavez as he sought to build an alliance among Central and Caribbean countries. But the moves had been criticised by countries like the United States that regarded them as plans by Chavez to spread his “revolution” across the hemisphere. Continue reading →

Pope’s last day at work

Pope Benedict XVI blesses the crowd at the end of his last general audience. Picture: Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters

Pope Benedict XVI blesses the crowd at the end of his last general audience. Picture: Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters

ROME, 28 February 2013 – Benedict XVI has left the Vatican for the last time as pope, flying by helicopter to the Vatican’s vacation retreat hours before becoming the first pontiff to resign in 600 years.

As his closest aide wept by his side, Benedict bade farewell to Vatican officials gathered in the San Damaso courtyard of the Apostolic Palace, a corps of Swiss Guards standing by at attention. Continue reading →

Wreath-laying Ceremony to Mark National Heroes Day in St. Kitts and Nevis

The Right Excellent Sir Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw

The Right Excellent Sir Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, 16 September 2012 (CUOPM) – St. Kitts and Nevis commemorates National Heroes Day (today Sunday) with the day being observed on Monday 17th – a public holiday – with the Governor General His Excellency Dr. Sir Cuthbert Sebastian and Prime Minister Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas among dignitaries laying wreaths at the monument in honour of the Father of Independence and First National Hero, the Right Excellent Sir Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw.

Learn more about Right Excellent Sir Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw in our biography section.

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Labour Government Keeps Manifesto Promise To Civil Servants

St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Rt. Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas

Rt. Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS (CUOPM) – The St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party Administration of Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Dr. Denzil l. Douglas has delivered on its manifesto promise made to public servants.

Prime Minister Douglas on Tuesday announced major improvements to the insurance coverage provided to all Government employees under the Group Medical Insurance Scheme managed by the National Caribbean Insurance Company Ltd. Continue reading →

LIAT Estimates Losses at 35 Million EC Dollars

LIAT

LIAT

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – The regional airline LIAT on Thursday put preliminary estimates of its losses from Sunday’s fire at EC$35 million (US$12.9 million) said.

According to a statement issued by LIAT spokesman Desmond Brown, the figure amounted to insured losses. The estimate comes two days after loss adjusters visited the site of the fire at the airline’s Antigua headquarters. Continue reading →

Illegal Move – Former AGs and Rowley Criticise Plan to Abolish Criminal Appeals to Privy Council

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) – Unlawful, unworkable, impractical.

These were some of the terms used yesterday to describe the decision of the Government to withdraw on a phased basis from the Privy Council. Weighing-in on the issue were former attorneys general Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj and John Jeremie, former foreign affairs minister Paula Gopee-Scoon and Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley. Continue reading →

Gonsalves Released From Hospital

Dr. The Hon. Ralph E. Gonsalves

Dr. The Hon. Ralph E. Gonsalves

(KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC) – Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves has been released from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Barbados where he spent the weekend receiving treatment for an abscess, Foreign Affairs Minister Dr. Douglas Slater has announced.

He said that Gonsalves was released on Monday night.

Gonsalves, who fell ill last Wednesday as he prepared for official visits to Kuwait and Qatar, was forced to seek medical attention in Barbados, after his condition deteriorated. Continue reading →