Commercial banks should support small businesses - P M
Prime Minister Bruce Golding yesterday hurled criticism at commercial banks for their lack of support for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). "The commercial banking sector has not yet recognised its obligation to provide a customer-friendly door...
'Fiesta hotel jobs going to outsiders' - Parish council claims Hanoverians seeking work are being bypassed
LUCEA, Hanover: THE HANOVER Parish Council has decided to write to the minister of labour to complain about what it says is the bypassing of many Hanoverians in the job recruitment process at the 1,600-room Fiesta hotel in Lucea....
'Make Fern Gully, Seville properties major income earners'
St Ann, Ocho Rios: Kiwanians want the Government to develop Fern Gully and Seville properties so that these places can become major income-earning attractions.The Kiwanians want both ies to be developed into national parks in which their historical and cultural significance...
Destroying crime by developing people -Mia Mottley on food crisis, press freedom and Caribbean unity
Regionally and internationally, over the last six months, food prices have steadily gone through the roof. The factors causing this include a fallout from the US/Iraq war, steep rises in oil and grain prices and the recession in the United States. How is Barbados handling this crisis?...
TT Gov't signs new railway deal
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, (CMC): Government has signed a TT$190 million (US$30 million) deal with a foreign consortium known as Trinitrain for carrying through the first phase of a rail system here.Speaking during Friday's signing ceremony at the Hilton...
High-level meeting of CARICOM leaders to tackle banana impasse
ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC):Agriculture Minister Matthew Walter says he is confident that a high level meeting of three Caribbean leaders this week will bring a resolution to the banana impasse in the Windward Islands. Dominica's Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit...
Grenada's minimum wage under review
ST GEORGE'S, Grenada (CMC): The Government has established a committee to review the minimum wage against the background of an increase in the cost of living facing workers, Labour Minister Claris Charles has disclosed. "Government has a duty towards...
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