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Monday January 28th, 2013
A white paper in all but name on global commerce. Free-trade agreements with Europe and with a raft of Asian nations.This is the year of decision for the Harper government, when either it succeeds or fails in its effort to rebalance trade from vertical to horizontal, from north-south to east-west. Parliament returns Monday to a legislative agenda that will largely be filled with housekeeping bills. The real agenda will be trade. Either as part of the budget, or as a stand-alone item, the Harper government will release what one official, speaking on background, described “as close to a white paper as the Harper government will get on trade.”
John Ibbitson
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January 2013
Monday January 28, 2013
Canada needs to boost trade with emerging markets and shed its “complacent” reliance on the United States if it is to grow in the decades ahead, the chief of Canada’s third-largest bank says. In a speech to the Toronto Board of Trade Monday night, Bank of Nova Scotia chief executive officer Rick Waugh said the country has a unique window of opportunity with a strong dollar and a sound financial system, at a time when other nations are facing adversity. However, such windows of opportunity “have a habit of closing,” Mr. Waugh warned.
Grant Robertson, Banking Reporter
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January 2013
Jan 22, 2013
Port efficiency concerns and trade agreement imbalances. Government bureaucracy and policy inadequacies. These are some of the major challenges facing local manufacturers, and that's on what new Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers' Association (TTMA) chief executive Ramesh Ramdeen plans to focus his energies.
By Carla Bridglal
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January 2013
TUESDAY, 22 JANUARY 2013 HAVANA, Cuba
The Foreign Ministers of Cuba and Venezuela, Bruno Rodriguez and Elias Jaua, respectively, agreed on the urge to consolidate the Community of Latin American and Caribbean Countries (CELAC) as space of regional sovereignty.
PRENSA LATINA
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January 2013
January 19, 2013 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados
Barbados and other CARICOM rum producing states as well as the Dominican Republic are in the midst of high-level talks with officials of the United States government so that there will be a level playing field for rum producers.
CARICOM NEWS.
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January 2013
Friday January 11, 2013, BRIDGETOWN, Barbados
Barbados and Sweden have signed a protocol to amend the Convention for Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income.
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January 2013
Thursday January 17, 2013 BASSETERRE, St Kitts
“A beam of sunshine” for the nation is how St Kitts and Nevis prime minister Dr Denzil Douglas has described the recent decision by the United States to upgrade the Eastern Caribbean island to a high income country.
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January 2013
Thursday January 17, 2013 , WASHINGTON D.C., United States
The World Bank has urged the Caribbean and other developing countries to safeguard their economic growth, warning that the “road ahead remain bumpy.”
In the Global Economic Prospects (GEP) report, released here on Wednesday, the Washington-based financial institution said four years after the onset of the global financial crisis, the world economy “remains fragile and growth in high-income countries is weak.”
January 2013
January 14 2013. ST. JOHN'S, Antigua and Barbuda
A new initiative is catching on in the Caribbean that aims to increase and sustain agricultural productivity by incorporating information about weather and climate into the farming process, all under the umbrella of climate-smart agriculture.
by Desmond Brown, Interpress Service
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January 2013
January 3rd 2013
A four-year plan is currently ongoing with the intention of improving the competitiveness and sustainability of Black Belly Sheep on the island.
(JH) Barbados Advocate
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January 2013
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Thursday January 3, 2013
As the world watched the United States draw back from the edge of its so-called ‘fiscal cliff’ at the nth hour once again, some small agreements reached could have big ramifications for Caribbean Forum (CARIFORUM) rum producers.
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January 2013
January 1, 2013 WASHINGTON D.C., United States
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) working paper says since growth in the current global economic environment is “virtually nonexistent,” significant fiscal consolidation is inevitable in the region.
CMC News
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January 2013
TUE, JANUARY 01, 2013
New Year’s Message from Lalu N. Vaswani, president of the Barbados Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI)
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January 2013
31st December 2012
As WASHINGTON frantically scrambles to prevent the United States from falling over the proverbial Fiscal Cliff, I am concerned to hear rumblings of a potential World Trade Organization (WTO) action by some of my Caribbean brethren that could rock our collective Caribbean economies.s
By Hon. Donna Christensen -US Virgin Islands Delegate to Congress
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January 2013
20 December 2012
Much more work still has to be done to ensure that a seamless, balanced CARICOM Single Market and Economy is in place.
Barbados Today
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January 2013
December 28 KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS)
Head of the European Union Delegation to Jamaica, Belize, The Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the Cayman Islands, Ambassador Paola Amadei, has dispelled misconceptions about the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA)
By Douglas McIntosh .
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January 2013
December 28th 2012, BASSETERRE, St Kitts
A number of Caribbean and other low-income countries will benefit from a two-year extension of the zero-interest rate charged on loans by the Washington-based International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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December 2012
Friday December 28, 2012 -WASHINGTON D.C., United States
President of the Inter-American Development Bank, Luis Alberto Moreno, says the economies of Latin America and the Caribbean have performed strongly in the face of a challenging external environment, but that the region needs to continue to pursue key reforms to ensure growth in the future.
CMC News
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December 2012
27th December 2012 LONDON, England
The curtain rolls down on 2012 with the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) institutionally weak and its 15 member governments doing little more than paying lip service to the process of economic integration.
By Sir Ronald Sanders
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December 2012
December 26th 2012, BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (BGIS)
Regional transportation remains a "critical necessity" if the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is to accomplish food security and to fully develop the agricultural trade sector.
By Shamkoe Pilé
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December 2012
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Thursday December 20, 2012
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Trade Ministers issued a statement on 11 December stating that “CARICOM countries continue to have serious concerns about the threat to the competitiveness of Caribbean rum in the United States market resulting from the massive subsidies provided by the Governments of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI) and Puerto Rico to multinational rum producers in those territories”.
By Sir Ronald Sanders
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December 2012
Friday December 14, 2012 - BRIDGETOWN, Barbados
On November 23, 2012 the Fair Trading Commission (FTC) announced the beginning of a consultation on a proposal of Barbados Light & Power (BL&P), to change the conditions under which small producers of renewable energy (solar/wind) could feed energy into the grid and be compensated for energy in excess of the needs of the producer/consumer. This so-called consultation is scheduled to end on December 14, 2012.
By Ralph Dungan
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December 2012
CASTRIES, St Lucia, Friday December 7, 2012
Key players in the construction sector throughout the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) have been urged to move towards the more cost effective approach of accessing wider markets through collaboration with other OECS Member States.
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December 2012
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Friday December 7, 2012
The European Union is to provide Euro 40 million (One Euro= US$1.29) in new financial grant assistance to Barbados for human resource development and renewable energy initiatives.
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December 2012
December 3rd 102 LONDON, England (CTO)
The Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) today on a framework of cooperation to optimise ICTs for development.
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December 2012
