11 May 2013
Editorial - The theme for World Press Freedom Day (WFPD) which was observed last week on Friday, May 3, was “Safe to Speak: Securing freedom of expression in all media.” Of the many thoughts and ideas that jumped out from this, the obvious to many in these parts, was the fear that generally exists in [...]
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10 May 2013
Written by Sourced Information (Caricom News Network) PORT OF SPAIN – Former Member of Parliament for Chaguanas West Jack Warner would face expulsion from the United National Congress (UNC) if he contests the by-election as an independent candidate. Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday said the party’s constitution does have certain sanctions and provisions that prevent [...]
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10 May 2013
Kevin McCoy, USA TODAY Opening a new front in the U.S. crackdown on offshore tax evasion, federal investigators late Monday won court approval for a summons that will force a Caribbean bank to turn over account data for wealthy American clients. Investigators planned to serve the summons on Wells Fargo, the San Francisco-based bank that [...]
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10 May 2013
The Royal Montserrat Police Service (RMPS) announced on May 8, 2013, the official launch their independent website. In a release the RMPS says that “The purpose of this internet portal is to maximize communication between the communities and the police thus improving efficiency and effective service delivery to the populace of Montserrat.” The release stated: [...]
10 May 2013
Written by Sourced Information (Caribbean News Now) ANTIGUA — An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission led by Geoffrey Bannister visited Antigua and Barbuda during April 29–May 3, to undertake the tenth and final review under the stand-by arrangement (SBA) approved by the Fund’s executive board on June 7, 2010. The mission held meetings with Minister [...]
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10 May 2013
Miss Linda Dias of Lookout is one of only two British Overseas Territories (BOT) citizens to be awarded a prestigious Chevening scholarship. The other has gone to a candidate from the British Virgin Islands. Government House made the announcement through a release which says, “The Chevening scholarship for the 2013 / 14 academic year. Chevening [...]
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10 May 2013
(CMC) CASTRIES, St. Lucia –An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.1 jolted St. Lucia late on Tuesday night (May 7), the Trinidad-based Seismic Research Centre (SRC) of the University of the West Indies (UWI) reported Wednesday. It said that the quake occurred at 11.45 pm (local time) and was located at 14.02° degrees north, and 60.61 [...]
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10 May 2013
by Nicole Best ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, Tuesday May 7, 2013 – The first ever female Governor General of Grenada was sworn into office on Tuesday with Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell saying that her inauguration serves as a “beacon of hope that can inspire a whole nation”. Former head of the Public Service Commission, Dr. [...]
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10 May 2013
After just the weekend since DFID suspended funding to the A1 Road Improvements project, stunning many agreeable observers, DFID’s local representative issued another release this time announcing the suspension of further funding for the Restructuring of Public Works Mechanical Workshop Project. The A1 Road project was suspended last Friday, May 3, 2013 and on Tuesday [...]
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10 May 2013
The Montserrat Diabetes Association held a special meeting on Wednesday afternoon, May 8, 2013, during which NAGICO insurances and Judith Greer & Associates presented to the association a 32-inch television and DVD. Mrs. Greer on making the presentation described how pleased she was, being a member of the Association, but especially representing NAGICO Insurance. “I [...]
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09 May 2013
The Washington Post By Associated Press TELESCOPE, Grenada — The old coastal road in this fishing village at the eastern edge of Grenada sits under a couple of feet of murky saltwater, which regularly surges past a hastily-erected breakwater of truck tires and bundles of driftwood intended to hold back the Atlantic Ocean. For Desmond [...]
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09 May 2013
Boston.com by JUDY FITZPATRICK Associated Press / PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten (AP) — A judge in St. Maarten convicted three men and issued prison sentences Wednesday, May 08, 2013 in the killing of a South Carolina couple in the Caribbean country. Lead defendant Meyshane Johnson was found guilty of all six charges against him, including two counts [...]
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08 May 2013
CaribbeanNewsNow ST JOHN’S, Antigua — The West Indies Cricket Board has announced Dwayne Bravo as West Indies One Day International captain. The Selection Panel recommended to the Board of Directors that Bravo be appointed captain of the West Indies One Day International Cricket Team and the Board of Directors approved the recommendation. The Selection Panel [...]
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07 May 2013
CaricomNewsNetwork – Written by Calvin G. Brown Kingston: Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna Friday, May 3 met with representatives of several students associations to discuss the Ministry’s budget for the 2013-2014 financial year, the priority programmes of the Ministry and issues of concern to the students’ associations. The youth who participated in [...]
06 May 2013
by Caricom News Network PORT OF SPAIN , Trinidad – If former National Security Minister, the colourful and enigmatic Jack Warner wants to once again represent his constituents of Chaguanas West as Member of Parliament, he will have to run as an independent candidate in his bid to be re-elected as his United National Congress [...]
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05 May 2013
By Claude Gerald (Howell’s long standing friend) How do I certify a tribute to a man who is now dead who normally certifies what I write? Some 6 years ago this month Howell requested that I do his funeral tribute after he certified one I did for a departed loved one. I deflected the request [...]
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05 May 2013
Interesting for both, men, women 4 Best Foods for Women…4 Best Foods for Men Women and men need different foods. Reason: They have very different brains. We did a study of 46,000 brain scans involving about 26,000 patients. Using a brain-imaging test called SPECT (single photon emission computed tomography), we found clear differences between male [...]
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03 May 2013
All over the world today is being celebrated as World Press Freedom Day (WPFD) and the International Federation of Journalists is marking it by focusing on the issue of ‘Journalist Safety and Journalists Imprisoned Around the World’. The theme is: WPFD theme: “Safe to Speak: Securing Freedom of Expression in All Media.” WPFD celebrates its [...]
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03 May 2013
In response (or in addition) to our Tribute – the professional life of Howell R. Bramble, Montserrat born Andrew Skerritt, Assistant Professor of Journalism, Florida A&M University, sends in the following, remembering Howell Bramble. I just wanted to add my voice in tribute to Howell Bramble. I owe my journalism career to Howell. He gave [...]
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03 May 2013
Customers Can Win Tickets To Alicia Keys’ Concert in Prague On April 26, 2013, LIME launched the new BlackBerry® Z10 smartphone powered by BlackBerry® 10, and announced that three lucky customers from across the region will be jetting off to see Alicia Keys’ SET THE WORLD ON FIRE concert in Prague, Czech Republic. LIME debuted [...]
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03 May 2013
A number of Turks and Caicos news media outlets have apparently fallen by the wayside, with others seen as precariously placed, apparently as a result of the sharp economic decline of recent years. The weblog TCI Post has disappeared, along with what seemed to be a companion website, the TCI Grapevine. The TCI Post, which [...]
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03 May 2013
by Man from Baker Hill If you were to apply simple arithmetic to arrive at the progress that Montserrat should have derived from the economic aid through DFID, economically Montserrat seems to have retrogressed to Zero. There is an old Montserrat proverb that says, ‘always add to legacy received, do not waste it’. But it [...]
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03 May 2013
Residents are now getting an ease in their pockets as the price of an essential commodity has decreased. As of Monday, April 29, 2013, the price of a 100 pound cylinder of Liquid Propane Gas (LPG) was $198.00. This amounts to a saving of $35 dollars on the previous cost, announced on April 9. A [...]
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03 May 2013
Jus wonderin if is true the PIU we hear about means ‘People I Use’ and the great MDC means ‘More Direct Contracts.’ Jus wonderin if when they say In England, The Reporter Is a Home Town Paper they say the same now: “I must say all the way from England my husband and I enjoy [...]
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03 May 2013
In solidarity with those journalists and reporters who must endure the violence and abuse as thrust upon them and against them, we publish the following, conscious that while, we may be too miniscule to suffer the same fate, we suffer nonetheless, albeit not to the same degree. Trying to dehumanize, humiliate and starve a profession [...]
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03 May 2013
GIU – Montserrat has joined other British Overseas Territories who are working to comply with the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) which both the United Kingdom and the United States are enacting to combat tax evasion and fraud. Head of the Inland Revenue Division Violet Silcott says the FATCAs with both nations will be [...]
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26 April 2013
The family led by older brother Austin Bramble held a Celebration of Life funeral service for Howell Richard Bramble, who died on April 13, 2013. The service was conducted by Seventh Day Adventist Pastor Hastings at the New Carmel SDA Church in Salem. Howell died in Nevis, which has been referred to as his adopted [...]
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26 April 2013
Editorial – April 26, 2013 On Friday last week the reported that as a result of his trip to Dubai where he met with potential investors in the Little Bay Development and Carrs Bay port plans in Montserrat. He said the trip was a follow-up to possible investor interest, specifically in the hotel and villa [...]
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26 April 2013
The Head of the Local Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Agency Office, Mrs. Claudette Weeks visited the Montserrat Secondary School (MSS) at the school’s morning assembly on Monday, April 22, 2013. The occasion was to present a winning prize and certificate to Miss Nadia Browne and a certificate and commendable prize to Miss Sharese Allen. see: [...]
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26 April 2013
A report out of the USA states, “One in eight older Americans has Alzheimer’s “disease. It is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States of America. Over 15 million Americans provide unpaid care for a person with Alzheimer’s or other dementias. Payments for cares are estimated to be $200 billion in 2012.” [...]
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26 April 2013
Long before he became ill, and his passing on April 13, 2013, Howell Bramble had been an outspoken advocate for public causes in a distinguished Montserrat tradition—the writing, editing and publishing of newspapers. Howell returned from England, where he studied Journalism, in the early 1960s. He soon became editor of the Montserrat Mirror, news and [...]
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26 April 2013
Under the Mango Tree was performed by children on March 16, 2013 as part of the St. Patrick’s week of celebrations. The show was staged late afternoon in a double header at the old Salem primary school and has been talked about ever since. Sian Wynne provides below a run-down of the organisers and the [...]
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26 April 2013
Jus wonderin wha mek twin otter need two hours notice fu land de John Osborne airport. Jus wonderin after hearing the Press Briefing last night and the promise of a continuation next week. Is there likely to be a beach on Montserrat which will be closed to the Roaches and Meades as our potential visitors [...]
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26 April 2013
Barbados — Kenroy Peters and Devon Smith shared the Man-of-the-Match award as they led the Windward Islands to a superb victory over Combined Campuses & Colleges in the Grand Final of the Regional Super 50 on Sunday night. Peters, the experienced left-arm seamer, took three wickets in an early spell which ripped the heart out [...]
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26 April 2013
You might think that super-masculine features—strong jaw, bulging biceps, hairy chest—are the kinds of physical traits women typically find most attractive in men. After all, such manly features suggest that a guy has lots of testosterone and so could outcompete lesser males in life (and in love). But according to a new study, what really [...]
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26 April 2013
CaribbeanNewsNow ST THOMAS, USVI — Governor John de Jongh has requested the US Department of Health and Human Services provide additional assistance to US Virgin Islanders struggling to pay their electricity bills.In a recent letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the governor petitioned for favorable consideration of another $1 million in Low [...]
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26 April 2013
TCI SUN News Trinidad – The Turks and Caicos Islands is still considering political independence from Britain, Premier Dr. Rufus Ewing has said. Ewing told the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) that “independence remains a major issue” three years after Britain suspended the island’s constitution and set up a one-man commission to probe the government of [...]
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26 April 2013
CaribbeanNewsNow CASTRIES, Saint Lucia — Saint Lucia launched its 2013 sports tourism initiatives to a large turnout of UK media, specialist sports tour operators and Premier League footballers past and present at a reception hosted by the High Commission for Saint Lucia and the Saint Lucia Tourist Board. In an address that saw Saint Lucia [...]
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26 April 2013
April is National Child Abuse Awareness Month. It’s a great opportunity for us to look at what we are doing and acknowledge our challenges here. In this stressful economy it is important to recognize that the national increase in child maltreatment paired with budget cuts across the board are a dangerous combination for our children. [...]
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26 April 2013
Former FIFA vice president Jack Warner has resigned as Trinidad and Tobago’s national security minister, two days after an investigation accused him of “fraudulent” management of the CONCACAF soccer confederation. Mr. Warner stepped down as CONCACAF president in 2011 after a “cash-for-votes” scandal. He was accused on Friday at a congress of soccer officials in [...]
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26 April 2013
The Guardian Chris Gayle has set a new record for the fastest century in the history of professional cricket with an astonishing ton off 30 balls for the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League, and then went on to make the highest score ever seen in Twenty20, ending unbeaten with 175 off 66 [...]
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26 April 2013
US officials have brought charges against Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzohkhar Tsarnaev while he lay in his hospital bed, a federal court official said. “There has been a sealed complaint filed,” said Gary Wente, circuit executive for the US Courts for the First Circuit, who said that a magistrate judge was present when Tsarnaev was charged at [...]
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22 April 2013
By Philip Reed, Senior Consumer Advice Editor (Follow-up to Tips on Saving Gas) http://www.themontserratreporter.com/tips-on-pumping-gas/ With gas prices so high, the media is awash with lists of gas-saving tips. Well how’s this for a tip? If you listen to us, you can see hybrid-type savings without having to buy a new car. By changing your driving [...]
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22 April 2013
Nadia Browne is a fifth form student at the Montserrat Secondary School MSS captured first place with her ‘Fruit ‘N Fit’ idea, a snackette and gym combination, targeting the youth the sub-regional competition, put on by Eastern Caribbean Currency Union’s ECCU Business Innovation Contest. Her submission emerged the top amongst a pool of 157 entries [...]
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22 April 2013
by Cathy Buffonge A most captivating children’s musical drama performance, ‘Under the Mango Tree’, took place during St Patrick’s Week, conceived by drama teacher Alys Jenkins and music teacher Rebecca Chalmers. The show was the result of a weekly music and drama workshop for around thirty children, held by Alys and Rebecca at the Hilltop [...]
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22 April 2013
Adair Arlen’s US novel “The Devil Yawned” is now officially a part of Montserrat public library and the world. The book was as announced officially launched at the Montserrat Public Library in Brades on Thursday, April 11, 2013 in the presence of ardent book readers, who shared a moment the author who said, “what a [...]
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22 April 2013
But based on performance, then goes to Dubai and EU in Brussels to seek investors and financing Premier and Minister of Finance, the Hon. Reuben T. Meade has on at least two occasions, publicly guaranteed that while civil servants are unlikely to receive a salary increase in the immediate future, there is a good chance [...]
22 April 2013
As one reporter puts it the sounds of various musical instruments filled the room at the old Salem primary school on Thursday as children in the Easter Music workshop showcased their new found abilities. Nearly twice last year’s number, 38 children took part in the musical workshop organized by the division of culture in conjunction [...]
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20 April 2013
Editorial – April 12, 2013 It must be indisputable that Montserrat’s economy is one of the smallest there is in the world, but not having access to an economist, since we are unable to pay for one, we can present very little professional argument one way or the other. So here is a call for [...]
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20 April 2013
by Edgar Nkosi White The death of Margaret Thatcher may be the passing of an age but not the end of an attitude. Thatcherism is a way of viewing the world and a stubborn refusal to negotiate on Conservative Tory principles regardless of harm or sacrifice of country. What effect did Margret Thatcher’s leadership have [...]
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20 April 2013
Bridgetown (Barbados): April 17, 2013 By Indo-Asian News Service Telecommunications major Digicel will sponsor the inaugural Caribbean Premier League (CPL) to be played in July-August. The CPL in a statement stated that the sponsorship will be a multi-year deal of a significant investment from Digicel, reports CMC. “We are thrilled to have Digicel as our [...]
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20 April 2013
Two explosions ripped through the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. The euphoria of crossing the finish line turned into bloody chaos as two blasts rocked the end of the 26.2-mile trek. A third incident, a fire at JFK Library, was also reported, though was later considered to be unconnected to [...]
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20 April 2013
The Bank of Montserrat Ltd. on April 8, 2013 announced the launch of an Additional Public Offer (APO) of shares. The Bank said that an “additional public offer of 4,234,520 ordinary shares will be made available to existing shareholders and members of the public.” It said in a release that existing shareholders can double their [...]
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19 April 2013
By Eugene Otuonye, Q.C. Director, TCI Integrity Commission 1. Section 25 of the Integrity Commission Ordinance 2008 as amended (the Ordinance) requires all persons in public life, to file with the Integrity Commission (the Commission) declarations of their incomes, assets and liabilities (Sec.25 Declarations) once every two years on or before the 30 June of [...]
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14 April 2013
Everyone including the doctors through one spokesperson of the Police, Fire, Nurses, Doctors, Red Cross, and representative from Overseas, Anguilla, thanked the organisers and sponsor, the Governor’s Office, praised facilitators and lecturers. RMFS Chief Mr. Andre West who was presented as the person who persisted to stage the course in Montserrat made special mention of [...]
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13 April 2013
Jus wonderin how an officer in the police or fire service after 14 years, top the interview, top the exams, act in the position for a top post be cast aside for a colleague with only half the years of service. Jus wonderin if a report of ‘aggressive’ behaviour, unsupported by events, can derail that [...]
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13 April 2013
Editorial – April 12, 2013 Prior to writing our editorial of last issue, we had learned the reason why the feedback flowing to us after the budget and the ensuing Legislative Assembly debate, was somewhat low-key and questionable. We had known that something was not all right, but could not confirm until after the budget [...]
13 April 2013
by Man from Baker Hill Almost every press release or communication given by DFID contains the word ‘COMPLIANCE’. What is the reason for this? The compliance word seems to be in every announcement made by politicians too. What is the connotation of compliance or non-compliance? The majority of Montserratians comply with every regulation or law, [...]
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12 April 2013
On February 19, this year the Hon Minister of Education, Colin Riley told graduating students successful at the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) examination, “Their accomplishments must be seen as part of a team building exercise.” He continued, ”your individual accomplishments are not to supersede your willingness capability and also your interest in being on the [...]
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12 April 2013
The Montserrat Animal Protection Society (MAPS) conducted a groundbreaking ceremony for a new animal shelter in Salem. Several members of the Society gathered on location to witness the turning of the soil on April 5, 2013. The area is located above the Montserrat Community College campus on the way to Duck Pond. After a site [...]
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12 April 2013
St Lucia — The final report of the Saint Lucia Constitutional Reform Commission has been tabled in Parliament by Prime Minister Dr Kenny Anthony. When the House of Assembly met on Tuesday April 2, 2013, the document was laid by the prime minister and copies were made available to each member of the House of [...]
12 April 2013
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada — The New National Party (NNP) government of Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell is again considering the possibility of the construction of a state of the art cruise ship facility in the north of Grenada in St Patrick. The idea was touted in 2006/ 2007, while Mitchell was in charge. The project [...]
12 April 2013
By Dr Isaac Newton It is time to grieve, mourn, and bravely accept the rigor mortis of the Caribbean Community’s death. The signs of our grave are in regional conferences, declarations, and summits. These are rarely backed by evidence-based deliverables. We cover up strategic blunders in gut feelings and anecdotes. With too shallow a notion [...]
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12 April 2013
by Bennette Roach The overseeing experts at the geothermal drill rig site in the Cork Hill/Weekes’ area are reporting progress in Montserrat’s quest to find geothermal energy that is hoped will be the ‘gold’ that will give the island the trust to get it out of the pits of economic disasters. “It’s starting to look [...]
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12 April 2013
This April 3, 2013 photo provided by the Greeley Police shows the text message University of Northern Colorado student Alexander Heit was typing to an unidentified person when police say he lost control of his car and ran off the road. He was taken to North Colorado Medical Center where he later died. Now his [...]
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12 April 2013
The new Carr’s Bay Gallery located at the front of Romeo’s hardware store, is proud to announce its second fine arts exhibition which opens to the public on Sunday, April 14 12 noon – 6 pm and continues weekdays from 10 am to 3pm untill the end of April, 2013 On exhibit will be fine art, [...]
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12 April 2013
The news brought serious concerns and discussions from the man on the street and otherwise with leader of the opposition Hon. Donaldson Romeo weighing in. by Bennette Roach On Tuesday, April 6, 2013, Delta Petroleum Ltd. issued a revised price for LPG (liquid propane gas) cooking gas, which reflects a significant increase, perhaps the largest [...]
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08 April 2013
SENIOR SOCIAL WORKER The Government of Montserrat is seeking to recruit a Senior Social Services Worker to support the Social Services Director in the development and implementation an integrated framework for social care. The Senior Social Worker will be expected to assist with the implementation of a safeguarding and fostering/adoption framework for children, including disabled [...]
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07 April 2013
Barbados – Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) in partnership with the International Trade Centre at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and the Organisation of American States (OAS) announced today that the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce will complete its four-part Small Business Development Centre (SBDC) Counsellor and Director Certificate Training [...]
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06 April 2013
MSS ladies make new record in Easter Monday Relay 42:38. Top 3 girl teams came in before the previous time of 44.36 Male Winners new time: 50:20 Conscious Vybz. previous record. 51:15 Mss boys in second place – 52:25 The Montserrat Secondary Scholl (MSS) girls and boys stole the spotlight at the annual Easter Monday [...]
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05 April 2013
He was undoubtedly the youngest known visitor to Montserrat, only weeks old when he arrived here with his parents in December, 2011 for the Christmas holidays. Now at 18 months-old, Felix Reuben Louis Davis, grandson of Governor Davis and his wife Sujue, was back in Montserrat for a second visit. Felix crawled into Montserrat’s history [...]
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05 April 2013
His Excellency Governor Davis, yesterday, Thursday, April 4, issued a release regarding circumstances surrounding Commissioner of Police (COP) Steve Foster, when the Governor told him: “a complaint has been made against you alleging certain conduct which may amount to criminal behaviour.” This was in last week in October 2012. See: http://www.themontserratreporter.com/cop-foster-on-leave-for-allegations-of-inappropriate-conduct/ The release reads: “The [...]
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05 April 2013
The Montserrat Secondary School was not to be outdone by the Primary School sports Day as parents and friends all turned out to support their students and the house teams. March Past WINNING HOUSE – ORANGE Record: Blue 2009, 2010 & 2012 CHAMPION BOYS CLASS V Veron Duberry Red & Keijounia Thomas Blue 9 [...]
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05 April 2013
The school sports continue to attract large crowds at Little Bay as parents, guardians, friends all turn out to see the children compete. Following are the results of the 2013 Joint Primary Sports held on March 20, 2013 March Pass – Brades Primary The overall winning school – Brades Primary – 141, followed by Lookout [...]
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05 April 2013
Pulling teeth Patient: How much to have this tooth pulled? Dentist: $100.00. Patient: $100.00 for just a few minutes work? Dentist: Well, I can extract it very slowly if you like. The lantern Deep In the back woods of Tennessee, a hillbilly’s wife went into labor in the middle of the night, and the doctor [...]
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05 April 2013
By Ian Francis Ian Francis To many of our Caribbean Commonwealth governments, the success of diplomatic relations is often equated with quantity rather quality. Unfortunately, the foreign ministries in many of these nations continue to hope and pray that, by opening up arms to certain Middle Eastern nations, bags full of bilateral aid will arrive [...]
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05 April 2013
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A top U.S. State Department official says the Caribbean will likely see a surge in drug trafficking activity by 2015 as opera tions shift to the tropics due to a crackdown in much of Latin America. William Brownfield says he believes drug traffickers squeezed out of Mexico, Central America [...]
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05 April 2013
Our readers may have seen some of this as we published similar information before, but a reminder is always useful. If it is new to you, then it is worth noting. But, you can skip reading this and see below: - I don’t know what you guys are paying for gasoline…. but here in California [...]
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05 April 2013
By Claude Gerald : Is it really the nature of politics or that of politicians to engage in waffling language designed to mislead and misguide? Is it that when you have nothing to say, you insist on attempting because if you say it attractively and often that you are deemed credible and on top of [...]
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05 April 2013
By Man from Baker Hill : Marse Sir’s land is not my own. Massuh’s land belongs to his children and their off springs. My forefathers never fought the French or killed the Arawacks to gain possession of Montserrat; but Massah did. So Marse Sir’s properties could never belong to me the descendant of a slave. [...]
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05 April 2013
Editorial – April 5, 2013 : If it had not been that we have come to accept much of the things coming from government as shrouded with suspicion, we would not be so puzzled by the number of persons who have sought to express their concerns and doubts with the budget presentation by Premier and [...]
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04 April 2013
By Jacqueline Charles [email protected] In the Dominican Republic, discounts on Venezuelan oil imports keep the lights on. In Jamaica, they are helping a limping economy stay afloat, and in Haiti, a young and inexperienced leadership is using them to achieve quick results. But despite financial benefits of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s Petrocaribe oil [...]
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31 March 2013
By Adair Arlen Well! “The Devil Yawned” is a new book by published novel author who carries the name Adair Arlen, who is described as having, “met her English husband in romantic New Orleans where they spent many happy and eventful years. They now reside with their West Highland White terrier, Glennie, on the ruggedly [...]
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31 March 2013
Bank of Montserrat Celebrates 25 years of Service to the Community and People of Montserrat. This year the Bank of Montserrat celebrates 25 years of service to the community and people of Montserrat. The Theme for the May 2013 celebrations is “Rebuilding our Country” A full programme of events has been developed to mark this [...]
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31 March 2013
VACANCY – EDUCATION AND OUTREACH COORDINATOR Montserrat Volcano Observatory is the agency responsible for monitoring the Soufriere Hills Volcano on Montserrat. MVO advises the authorities on the volcanic activity and its associated hazards and risks. MVO has a diverse education and outreach programme working with government, media organisations, schools and the general public. The Education [...]
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31 March 2013
Editorial – March 29, 2013 It was heartening to hear the Hon Minister of Education, Health and Social Services, refer to “we are building a country”. This was amidst the thumping of breasts that seemed to have been the order of the day during the debate of the 2013/14 budget. Indeed like was said last [...]
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31 March 2013
The Montserrat Tourist Board on March 25, 2013 in a release confirmed as follows: On Thursday March 14th 2013, the Rude Boyz String Band launched their first album, Revival, at Gary Moore’s Wide Awake Bar in Salem. The event was part of the St. Patrick’s Festival Rhythm Night. The album launch was recognised by the [...]
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31 March 2013
The police is investigating a serious assault, where it is alleged that an accelerant was used to set a man on fire. According to the Royal Montserrat Police Service (RMPS) the incident occurred in the Salem area near a popular bar last weekend. Sources in Salem say that the man who was asleep on a [...]
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31 March 2013
and going well according to drilling experts by Bennette Roach : This report comes nine days after Director of Public Works, Ron Beardsley announced that drilling to prove geothermal resource on Montserrat began. That commencement was delayed and postponed when the engine failed to function. Roger Almond confirmed, “The engine was the problem, everything’s running [...]
30 March 2013
By Bennette Roach It is the fourth since 2009. Course #4 of the Royal Montserrat Police Services (RMPS) commenced training from September 10, 2012 with five recruits. On Friday, March 15, 2013 four of the five finished and graduated in a Passing Out Parade where they showed off their new found precision drill skills, entertaining [...]
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30 March 2013
Carrs Bay and its environs gear up to be a hub of activity in the not too distant future as plans for the new town centre, the Little Bay development and port development, creep on. Located in the area is the newly opened Art Gallery in the Romeo Wayside Store compound. The Carrs Bay Art [...]
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30 March 2013
The two former Delta Petroleum Ltd. employees Yolanda Royer and Daunelle Hussey who eventually pleaded guilty to theft and money laundering, received sentences on March 14, 2013 ranging from restitution, suspended sentences, and fines. The two were initially arrested in November, 2011 faced 69 counts of theft totaling $150,605.55, in respect of Royer, while Hussey [...]
30 March 2013
Guardian in Waltham Forest By Daniel Binns A man from Leytonstone who fled the Caribbean island of Montserrat when it was hit by a devastating volcanic eruptions in the 1990s is preparing to return to help rebuild his homeland. Lemarle Lewis, 28, fled the tropical paradise with his family following the disaster in 1995 which [...]
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30 March 2013
by Man from Baker Hill : There is no doubt in my mind that there is Silver in the Hill; or else they would not have called it Silver Hills. And where there is silver, there could be gold. Since we have hills of silver on Montserrat, our future not only looks good and golden; [...]
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29 March 2013
The Honourable Minister of Education Colin Riley on Wednesday, March 13, 2013, expressed thanks to Alex Hourani and Cool N Smooth Antigua for their continued support of Montserrat’s athletics and other community initiatives. Hourani visited the island this time, to make a donation of five trophies, 100 T-shirts, 60 medals, 10 cases of water and [...]
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22 March 2013
Capt. John As I understand it, the Geothermal drillers have finally got all their eggs lined up, and started this past weekend the 16th or 17th. without any fanfare. It would have been nice, if they had told us about this historical event, so that at least the Press and Radio could have been there [...]
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22 March 2013
by Dr. Eddie Donoghue: Caribbean American Repertory Theatre Inc. in collaboration with the Queens Library, is pleased to present a staged-reading of the hilarious farcical comedy from St. Thomas, — Half Married by Dr. Eddie Donoghue. The staged reading will be on Saturday March 30, 2013, at the Queens Library on 89-11, Merrick Boulevard near [...]
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22 March 2013
with beautiful weather by Bennette Roach : The music of West Africa did fill the air with sounds and action over the St. Patrick’s Day weekend in two free shows at the Salem Park. All of the activities took place outdoors except for the St. Patrick’s Day dinner, Emerald Community Singers and the youth jamboree. [...]
22 March 2013
of an island nation or an expensive outpost by Man from Baker Hill Montserrat! Is it a sustainable island nation or just an expensive outpost? The answer comes with the question; but while you consider the matter, I will try to inspire. Shortly after the volcano erupted, The Montserrat Reporter of November 1995 published an [...]
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22 March 2013
by Vernon “AUK” Jeffers Come April, Montserratians who fled to Britain to escape the ravages of an unforgiving volcano would have to decide between heating and eating. To me, it is like moving from the frying pan into the fire. What bother me most however, is the seemingly lack of concern expressed by Premier Meade [...]
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22 March 2013
by Bennette Roach : Following is an article published in The Montserrat Reporter several years ago. Jog your memory, your knowledge and tell us when it was published. There are easy ways to find out. You may call, write or email your response. Then, you may also give us your comment as to where you [...]
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22 March 2013
It is time to change the mind-set of the island. That idea began to change since April 1996, and certified 1997-98. 1997 when people lost their lives to the volcano and later when St. Patrick’s was wiped away completely, after the Galway’s wall disappeared exposing the belly of the volcano. The one big problem however, [...]
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22 March 2013
(GIU) – The Ministry of Health this week is hosting Dr. Lanval Joe Daly an Obstetrician/Gynaecologist, who will be conducting clinics for clients as well as teaching medical staff. Dr. Daly is a native of Montserrat and has 30-40 years of experience in medicine. This week he is attending to numerous women who have been [...]
22 March 2013
Members of first responder teams including the police and fire service, doctors and nurses are participating in a new series of courses to bring the islands emergency practitioners up to international standards. The course design was spearheaded by the Montserrat Fire Service through its Chief Fire Officer Andre West. Funding for the course is through [...]
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22 March 2013
The Naval Support Ship RFA WAVE KNIGHT will arrive off the jetty at Little Bay port on March 24 for a three-day visit during her deployment to the region on Atlantic Patrol Tasking North (APT(N)). “This,” it is said in a Government House press release, “is a year round commitment to the region in support [...]
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22 March 2013
GIU – The Policy and Planning Division in the Cabinet Secretariat has now released the final versions of three reports which look at Montserrat’s living conditions. The three reports are: The Government of Montserrat and the Caribbean Development Bank Final Report Country Poverty Assessment Volume 2. Supplementary Material July 2012; Montserrat Survey of Living Conditions [...]
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19 March 2013
Earth Hour is a symbolic 60 minute period during which participants turn off all non-essential lights to raise awareness about the effects of climate change. It will be celebrated this year on Saturday, 23rd March 2013 from 8:30PM to 9:30PM local time. Earth Hour is an annual event which began in Sydney, Australia in 2007 [...]
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16 March 2013
By Man from Baker Hill Last month, a news report on ZJB radio announced that the authorities found cocaine worth more than $5 million in the south of Montserrat. Probably I will never hear anything further on the matter; …, probably. So speculation must be in order. Is Montserrat a transhipment point for illegal drugs? [...]
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15 March 2013
International Women’s Day (Friday, March 8, 2013, was not lost this year in Montserrat as several events took place marking its observation. The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) local branch joined its other branches globally in celebrating women all over the world, observing International Women’s day, as they have for several years. This year RBC [...]
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15 March 2013
Red Cross Patron in Montserrat Mrs. Sujue Davis has reported on the activities emanating from the AED Project which she initiated earlier this year. She reports that following some, “further contributions, the total amount of money we have raised from the events on 24 November and 12 January is $34,669.” She said further that they [...]
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15 March 2013
GIU – The students at the Montserrat Secondary School on Monday presented their annual celebrations for Commonwealth Day. The highlight of this was in keeping with the theme “Opportunity Through Enterprise,” where the Student Leadership Team launched their new business initiative called MSS DigPro. MSS DigiPro is a student managed media house that aims to [...]
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15 March 2013
By Caribbean News Now contributor LONDON, England — In a strongly worded letter on Tuesday, Britain’s Foreign Secretary William Hague described Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) Premier Dr Rufus Ewing’s speech last month to Caribbean Community (CARICOM) heads of government as a substantial misrepresentation to the people of the TCI and to the leaders [...]
15 March 2013
Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina elected pope, takes name Pope Francis From sources ‘Fruitful mission’ The election of a new Pope was signaled by white smoke from the Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday evening. About an hour later, the name of the new Pope was read out. He began his address to the [...]
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15 March 2013
Editorial – March 15, 2013 : Last week’s Editorial headline, “Failure to get the Integrity Act in motion is an act of corruption”, drew reaction from some persons willing to express their thoughts about it, if only in a limited way. Generally, they felt the article was directed entirely at the politicians. The hope was [...]
15 March 2013
Following the arrests in November, 2011of two former Delta Petroleum Limited, female employees who were charged with theft totaling together over ECC$239,000, the case appeared before High Court last week. At the time of arrest, Royer faced 69 counts of theft totaling $150,605.55, while Hussey was charged with 42 counts of theft totaling $88,692.99. They [...]
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15 March 2013
CaribbeanNewsNow Dominica — The Fish Aggregating Device (FAD) is a relatively new technology in the region which allows fishers to capture more fish with less effort, but in order to reduce the risk of overfishing, sound monitoring and management measures must be put in place. This is why the Secretariat of the Caribbean Regional Fisheries [...]
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14 March 2013
The St. Patrick’s Day festivities celebrated with a week of activities began in earnest in a commercial way nearly or more than 40 years ago. It is not clear however that its commercialisation has benefited Montserrat in a way that supports the claim of positive growth, linked to the success of the 50th anniversary celebrations [...]
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14 March 2013
Following is a release by the Montserrat Tourist Board- Culture Division in collaboration with the Rude Boyz String Band announcing the release of their first Album ‘Revival’, launched officially on Thursday, 14th March 2013, 8:30 PM at Gary Moore Wide Awake Bar in Salem, as part of Rhythm Night on the St. Patrick’s Festival Calendar. [...]
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09 March 2013
Children at Montserrat Primary schools finally received toys that were to be in their hands at Christmas just passed. The Montserrat Red Cross early in February presented toys to children in the island’s primary schools On February 8, it was the Catholic St. Augustine school’s turn to receive. Eloise Irish, treasurer, Director Pauline Everett and [...]
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09 March 2013
Montserrat is preparing to host a two-day air accident investigation workshop on March 14-15, according to the Governor’s Office, at the March monthly press conference on the 6th. Head of the Governor’s Office, Mark Turner confirmed Wednesday that about 30 members of fire, police senior government officials, as well as representatives from SVG Air, Fly [...]
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09 March 2013
St. Kitts and Nevis (WINN): Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Sir K Dwight Venner is calling on the private sector in the sub-region to form a body to have their interests represented on the governmental level. Sir Dwight speaking recently at the St. Kitts Nevis chapter of the Caribbean Growth Forum, noted that the [...]
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08 March 2013
CaribbeanNewsNow Barbados — Performance in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) January 2013 sitting has improved over that January of 2012. This year 49 percent of the entries achieved Grades I – III, the acceptable grades at CSEC, compared with 45 percent last year. Of the 13 subjects offered at the January sitting, performance improved [...]
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08 March 2013
LONDON, England — Daniel Hodge, the prime minister of Curacao is set to address Defence IQ’s Caribbean Basin Coastal Surveillance and Maritime Security Summit (CABSEC) on the 12 – 14 March 2013 in Curacao. The participants, including ambassadors, defence ministers, senior government officials, chiefs of navies, defence staff and coast guards involved in regional and [...]
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08 March 2013
Written to CaribbeanNewsNow By Rev. Buddy Larrier Dear Sir: Freeing our minds is an appeal for African peoples to pay particular attention to unprecedented world events taking place at such a rapid pace. The Mayans, our indigenous ancestors of the Caribbean, had informed us that December 2012 would usher in a new dispensation (era), during [...]
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08 March 2013
Connects TCI premier, Dr Rufus Ewing By Caribbean News Now contributor NASSAU, Bahamas — Canadian authorities on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for the managing director of the Cancer Centre in The Bahamas, Dr. Arthur Porter, and four other men, according to Quebec’s anti-corruption unit press liaison Anne-Frédérick Laurence. Last year, Bahamas Minister of Health [...]
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08 March 2013
By Vivian Tyson, Senior SUN Editor Robberies in the Turks & Caicos Islands have tumbled by a whopping 61 percent, which the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force said it owes to greater visibility by its members on the streets and hot at spot areas. The drop in robberies played a pivotal role in [...]
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08 March 2013
Six ways your privacy could be compromised A billion people worldwide use Facebook to share details of their lives with their friends. Trouble is, they also might be unintentionally divulging matters they consider private—to friends…coworkers, clients and employers…marketing companies…and even to competitors, scammers and identity thieves. Six ways Facebook could be compromising your private information [...]
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08 March 2013
Editorial – March 8, 2013 : The Haitian Prime Minister, Laurent Lamothe, said on Monday that his government has declared a war on corruption and demanded a transparent management of public funds as several dozen State functionaries and other accomplices await trial after being indicted on corruption charges in the Caribbean country, ravaged by a [...]
08 March 2013
The Montserrat Reporter reported at press time prematurely in anticipation that geothermal drilling was due to start last week Wednesday night. The drilling was scheduled to begin began at seven o’clock on Wednesday, February 23 as announced the day before at the blessing and opening of the drilling at the bottom of Weekes near the [...]
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08 March 2013
by Bennette Roach The main disaster response agencies in Montserrat were tested last week in a simulation exercise called ‘Green Flash’. Former Governor Frank Savage served the island from 1993 to 1997 as the Governor. His experiences here created the opportunity for him to consult and teach on disaster management issues for the FCO and [...]
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08 March 2013
On February 8, 2013 a group of 15 volunteers, launched a new non-profit organization called the Montserrat Children’s Society under Mission Statement, “Children who have urgent needs may be assisted regardless of race, nationality, or disability.” The launch too place at the Hill Top Coffee Shop, St. Peters, which saw presentations live and by video [...]
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08 March 2013
by Andre Huie St. Kitts and Nevis (WINN): Panelists on WINN FM’s Inside the News on Saturday debated the no confidence motion in the government of St. Kitts and Nevis, which has not yet been debated in parliament having been filed by the opposition since early December 2012. Deputy Leader of the opposition Peoples Action [...]
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08 March 2013
WASHINGTON — President Obama said Wednesday (last week) that Rosa Parks’ example in 1955 — confronting segregation by refusing to give up her seat on a city bus — should inspire all Americans to face up to today’s challenges. All too often, faced with children who are hungry, neighborhoods “ravaged by violence” and families hobbled [...]
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08 March 2013
by Rachel Belt PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (HCNN)– The Haitian Prime Minister, Laurent Lamothe, said on Monday that his government has declared a war on corruption and demanded a transparent management of public funds as several dozen State functionaries and other accomplices await trial after being indicted on corruption charges in the Caribbean country, ravaged by a [...]
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08 March 2013
Compiled: from sources Over 1.2 billion Catholics around the world are without a Pope after Pope Benedict XVI “stunned the Roman Catholic Church and the rest of the world” early February by giving three weeks’ notice that he is stepping down as of yesterday, February 28. The Bavarian-born pontiff cited his deteriorating health and “advanced [...]
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08 March 2013
A press release from the Governor’s office has informed that the Complaints Commission held its first meeting on February 6 and 7, 2013. According to the press release, the meeting discussed the legislation, which will govern the operations of the Commission. These Commissions are the Mercy, the Electoral, the Complaints, and the Integrity Commissions. [...]
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05 March 2013
The New York Times By WILLIAM NEUMAN CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela died Tuesday afternoon after a long battle with cancer, the government announced, leaving behind a bitterly divided nation in the grip of a political crisis that grew more acute as he languished for weeks, silent and out of sight in [...]
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01 March 2013
Written to CaribbeanNewsNow By Rev. Buddy Larrier Dear Sir: Freeing our minds is an appeal for African peoples to pay particular attention to unprecedented world events taking place at such a rapid pace. The Mayans, our indigenous ancestors of the Caribbean, had informed us that December 2012 would usher in a new dispensation (era), during [...]
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26 February 2013
By Hayden Boyce Publisher & Editor-in-Chief, TCISUN The controversial Valued Added Tax (VAT) will not be introduced in the Turks and Caicos Islands. In a joint letter to Premier Hon. Dr. Rufus Ewing dated February 25th 2013, United Kingdom (UK) Minister for Overseas Territories and the Caribbean Mark Simmonds, and Alan Duncan, Minister of State [...]
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23 February 2013
By Claude Gerald : Montserratians everywhere may lose control of their island heritage in a post-volcano scenario. The Little Bay peninsula which has been a political football for many years is now to be developed as the island’s main commercial outpost, a town as we knew the concept, given our fascination with the entombed city [...]
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22 February 2013
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22 February 2013
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22 February 2013
By Peter Richards BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, February 22, 2013 - Barbadian voters kept with tradition and provided the incumbent party with a second consecutive term in power following a nerve jangling general elections here on Thursday. According to the preliminary results, the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) won 16 of the 30 seats in the elections with [...]
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22 February 2013
Feb 11, 2013 : New investments to boost broadband and TV service in the region In another move to deliver more value to customers Cable and Wireless Communications, the parent company for LIME, plans to invest an additional US$20 million in network infrastructure across the region. This is expected to further boost data speeds and [...]
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22 February 2013
Editor’s note: The following letter which came to us in December went missing in the cyberworld. We are pleased to present it as in every other case, with our apologies to the writer who preferred to withhold their name. On the 8th December, 2012, I became an accident victim through my own fault and needed [...]
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22 February 2013
by Howard Fergus When we were growing up there were scarcely any books in many of our homes. And books were certainly not written by the likes of us. They came from overseas written by persons like J. O. Cutteridge whose cow, as Sparrow reminds us, jumped over the moon. And we are certainly grateful [...]
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22 February 2013
Montserrat climbed out a cooking (propane) gas shortage that had gone on for over two weeks, due, according Manager Roselyn Cassell-Sealy, to a breakdown of the ship that transports the product. Anguilla and Nevis had assisted briefly before they also suffered a similar fate. While keeping her ‘fingers crossed’, a tanker that was due to [...]
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22 February 2013
Acting Permanent Secretary, and substantive Director of Education in the Ministry of Education Glenn Francis and principal of the Montserrat Community College, Paul Payne attended a two day meeting in Grenada, where they joined their counterparts from the OECS in Grenada earlier this month. Thy met to explore the possibility of setting up an OECS [...]
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22 February 2013
The Montserrat Community College debating society students are in Antigua this weekend where they compete in the 41st annual Leeward Islands Debate competition. As part of preparations for the competition the students put on a muck debate on Sunday, February 17 at the Montserrat Cultural Centre. Principal Paul Payne announced that a total of six [...]
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22 February 2013
Editorial – February 22, 2013 : In a few days a team from the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) an independent body responsible for scrutinising UK aid, will begin a visit to Montserrat which will run over seven days from February 25, March 4. According to their terms of reference, they “will examine how [...]
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22 February 2013
by Bennette Roach A two-member team from the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) is scheduled to visit Montserrat to review the aid that the Department for International Development (DFID) provides to Montserrat. The ICAI team David Sharif and David Parish will arrive on island on February 25 with a departure date of March 4, [...]
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22 February 2013
By Hayden Boyce Publisher & Editor-in-Chief TCISUN: Turks and Caicos Islands Premier Hon. Dr. Rufus Ewing has called on CARICOM (Caribbean Community), to advocate on the international stage for the full restoration of the institutions of true democracy in this country. In his maiden speech to a CARICOM Heads of Government meeting, Dr. Ewing asked [...]
22 February 2013
with high hopes of finding the energy in Zone C by B. Roach The Montserrat Reporter mobilised having received extra ordinarily late advice that the geothermal exploratory drilling site would be officially opened with prayers and blessing of the site on Tuesday morning this week. Upon arrival at the site (the first of the two [...]
22 February 2013
In Montserrat 26 students from the Montserrat Secondary School were part of over 290 students aged 14 – 19 from the eight member countries of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU), who together via videoconference to share their perspectives and engage in discussions on youth unemployment, viability of agriculture in the OECS and the [...]
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20 February 2013
By Peter Richards Grenada, CMC – 65-year-old Keith Claudius Mitchell entered into the history of Caribbean politics when he led his New National Party (NNP) to a clean sweep of the 15 seats at stake in Tuesday’s general election, becoming the first political leader here to achieve the feat, having previously done so in 1999. [...]
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08 February 2013
The Royal Montserrat Police Service (RMPS) has expressed pride in their continuing efforts with some significant anti-smuggling drug operations and border security initiatives. Last week the RMPS reported to the media that there have been a number of suspicious marine activities, which has resulted in the recovery of two foreign registered vessels and a large [...]
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08 February 2013
Our neighbor who have made overtures to Montserrat to join in certain activities towards better collaboration between the two islands, celebrated Education Week 2013 activities during this week, under the theme, ‘ Every Learner Achieves’ On Tuesday, February 5 with a focus on reading, they conducted “The National Reading Day” which is an annual event [...]
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08 February 2013
Montserrat joined the rest of the world and celebrated World Cancer Day this year 2013 on February 4 when the World Health Organisation (WHO) said it would promote, that “World Cancer Day is a chance to raise our collective voices in the name of improving general knowledge around cancer and dismissing misconceptions about the disease.” [...]
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08 February 2013
The Rotary Club of Montserrat on Tuesday, January 29, 2013 handed over the donation of a table tennis board to the Montserrat Secondary School (MSS), at an Assembly session attended by all the children, teachers, print press and visiting and officiating Rotarians. Fr. George Agger after the assembly was called to order by principal Mrs. [...]
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08 February 2013
The Disaster Management Coordination Agency (DMCA) has announced that a national emergency exercise is deep in the planning stages for the first quarter of this year. Director Billy Darroux said the Government of Montserrat has initiated the exercise to test the response of all national emergency agencies including the police and fire services, health centres [...]
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08 February 2013
GIU reports: – Frank Ferguson the Director General of the Montserrat Customs and Revenue Service (MCRS) is standing down at the end of January. Mr Ferguson, who took up the role in January, 2012, says he is very proud of the progress that the organisation has made over the past year, especially in building better [...]
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08 February 2013
BBC News (UK Politics) The Church’s traditional doctrine is that marriage is “between one man and one woman” MPs have backed a bill to legalise gay marriage in England and Wales, including by those religious organisations which want to offer it. But what is behind the proposal, and why are Anglican churches excluded? What has [...]
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08 February 2013
A new book capturing vacation moments on Montserrat has been published, titled, “Beyond Relaxed: Precious Time in Montserrat”. Angie Dawson and husband, Derek Jensen co-authored the book, the result of what began with their first visit to Montserrat in 2008, and over four later visits when they compiled all photographs and information. Beyond Relaxed is [...]
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08 February 2013
The Coral Cay Conservation (CCC) project which is to come on stream here in May this year is receiving a contributing 10,000 pounds from His Excellency the Governor Adrian Davis office. This announcement was made on Monday, January 14, at Government House in Woodlands that the contribution was linked to the UK and the Montserrat [...]
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08 February 2013
In one scoop of sadness and a profound sense of my own fragility, a combination of winter freezing sensation, bitter sadness, and raw shock hurled me between tears and recollection. Immediately, my mind raced back to the last one-on-one lunch meeting that we had together when Winston Derrick said to me: “Chelston, it’s not about [...]
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08 February 2013
Hopes of a new beginning to revitalise Agriculture In an environment and at a time where the Island of Montserrat, while on the one hand is talking and touting its moves towards development and economic growth, Agriculture is sinking further on the decline, almost nonexistent, as it must depend on the ‘food boat’ from Dominica [...]
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06 February 2013
PR Newswire - Voluntary recall of certain lots of Triaminic® Syrups, Theraflu Warming Relief® Syrups, Jack & Jill® brand pediatric syrups and Buckley’s ® Complete Liquids, issued to consumers, retail customers and wholesalers in the Bahamas - Consumers who may have the product(s) being recalled are asked to return the affected products and receive a [...]
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25 January 2013
Long live Murphy’s, I say Comment: I vehemently agree with Ms. Osborne’s article re: Murphy’s. As an individual who has also traveled to the four corners of the earth, I too relish the “off the beaten path” locales that any country has to offer. I also relish the new and upbeat thing of it all; [...]
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25 January 2013
Confident that questions in the Legislative Assembly this week, regarding the requirement for an Environmental Impact Assessment were answered in the negative with the contrary statement that none was required, Premier Meade refused to provide information as to where tobacco when manufactured would be shipped from Montserrat. The Government is bound under Article 12 of [...]
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25 January 2013
Adapted GIU – The Department for International Development (DFID) officials began their first mission visit to review Montserrat’s national budget on Thursday, January 24. The meetings are scheduled to take place from January 24 to 30 at the Cabinet Secretariat and will look at the projections for expenditure and revenue for the government in the [...]
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25 January 2013
Nevis (NIA) — Premier of Nevis Vance Amory said his administration would be one of inclusion and cooperation in the interest of Nevis. Amory was at the time responding to questions from the media, moments after he received his Instruments of Appointment and had taken his oaths of allegiance and secrecy on Wednesday, in a [...]
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25 January 2013
Basseterre, St. Kitts – The Concerned Citizens Movement, CCM, led by veteran politician Vance Amory, has defeated the incumbent Nevis Reformation Party, NRP, of outgoing Premier, Mr. Joseph Parry. Amory’s CCM won three of the five seats up for grabs in the elections held on Tuesday 22nd January, 2013. It was a rather decisive victory [...]
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25 January 2013
A Government Information release has informed that Mikael Barfod, the European Union (EU) Ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, is scheduled to visit Montserrat on Tuesday to entwine in the discussions with the Department for International Development on its budgetary package to Montserrat. In May 2012, the Honourable Premier Reuben Meade signed an agreement [...]
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25 January 2013
Are Montserratians afraid…? by Shirley Osborne Am I the only person who was startled to see “soldiers” in uniform, apparently on official assignment at the Festival 50 events in Montserrat this past December? I’m not the only one, am I? Or are we, me and all the people I asked, just the only ones who [...]
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25 January 2013
Rupert Isles of Selsi Limited has written to the Ministry of Communications and Works complaining and expressing his frustration at the methods and manner in the way the procurement and tendering process are conducted. “I am writing to you to express my frustration at having received yet another tender from your ministry that does not [...]
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25 January 2013
Sir George and Lady Judy Martin in a most generous gesture decided to support Mrs. Sujue Davis, His Excellency the Governor’s wife in a fund raising drive to acquire automated external defibrillators (AEDs) for the Montserrat Red Cross branch. Mrs. Davis hosted a variety show, a silent and live auction which was held on Saturday, [...]
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25 January 2013
In an environment of serious difficult economic times and the continuing hardship faced by Montserratian residents, with a sky rocketing cost of living, the Hon. Donaldson Romeo asked Premier Reuben Meade at the first sitting of the Legislative Assembly on January 22, “Is there anything the government of Montserrat can do to decrease the cost [...]
25 January 2013
Man from Baker Hill : If you have problems with your income tax returns, I can help you. This article should be rightly placed in the ‘Ad’ section of the newspaper, but that will not be wise; because it is much more than mere advertising of services. It includes a little bit of me as [...]
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25 January 2013
Caribbean News Now Nevis (NIA) — The Nevis Island government is now free to pursue the development of geothermal energy by its own means. Premier of Nevis Joseph Parry made the announcement on Friday, two days after a High Court ruling gave the administration the green light to do so. Parry said that the court [...]
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25 January 2013
The anointing was flowing right from the start, when the Evangelist Jerry Jarvis opened up with prayer. As the organisers put it, you had to have been there, as it was described, “truly an hallelujah and Amen moment,” taking place at the Arts and Education Centre in Brades. The packed house sang and clapped all [...]
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25 January 2013
Premier the Hon. R T Meade revealed in the Legislative Assembly meeting on January 22, 2013 that the revenue intake for the house raffle which was launched in September, 2011 was, “$83,453.00 plus $1,572.00 for a total of $85,136.00,” explaining that the $1,572 were stale dated checks. We note that the Premier’s total should be [...]
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25 January 2013
Editorial – January 25, 2013: Among the issues that those who bother to concern themselves about the economics of Montserrat is the question of what is the accountability or who is accountable for losses or unnecessary expenses incurred that must come from government funds, which we should be reminded belongs to all the people of [...]
25 January 2013
Jus wonderin why the premier talkin bout “tell the man Romeo of De Bear’s 2012 calypso that me nar get none, but local businesses are at least making money from the resource which not only creates jobs but bolsters the earnings of our own private sector. Jus wonderin wey the private sector are mek de [...]
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25 January 2013
for proof of the resource by June by Bennette Roach : Geothermal is on the lips of many and now the news is that “excitement and great anticipation is building on Montserrat as the island gets ready to explore its geothermal potential, scheduled to begin in earnest in February.” With the UK Government in December, [...]
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16 January 2013
GROS ISLET, St Lucia — At the end of the action-packed first phase of the Caribbean T20 at Queens Park Oval, defending champions Trinidad and Tobago lead the points table. The Trinis played unbeaten at home to record three wins and a no-result due to a wash-out, and stand top of the charts with 13 [...]
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11 January 2013
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11 January 2013
Barbados – On Friday, Jan 11 The Barbados Workers Union (BWU) says it intends to call its full membership to support an island-wide strike in an effort to force tel-communications giant LIME to withdraw 97 letters of redundancy which were issued last week. However, the date and time of the nationwide strike is yet to [...]
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11 January 2013
by Shirley Osborne “What if, instead of, Murphy’s got to go…help Murphy sheem-up a little bit, and actually help Montserrat?” I have worked for the Montserrat Tourist Board in two periods of my life and have travelled much in many parts of the world, for work and for play, in every kind of seat: first-class [...]
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11 January 2013
The Government of Montserrat may be proud that it has begun its outsourcing programs, but there are some unhappy ‘victims’. Some reports say the process to the outsourcing of the school bus service, school food program, and the cleaning services implementation was not a smooth one, particularly with many parents voicing concerns about the functionality [...]
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11 January 2013
Grenada (CMC) – Prime Minister Tillman Thomas Wednesday night announced that he had asked Governor General Sir Caryle Glean to dissolve Parliament paving the way for a general election in Grenada within 90 days. In a brief radio and television address, Thomas did not name the date for the general election that was constitutionally due [...]
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11 January 2013
Montserrat’s leader of the opposition the Hon. Donaldson Romeo on December 27, 2012 took the opportunity to hold what he referred to as “meaningful consultations”, with Montserratians who were on island for festival 50 celebrations. He said the primary aim of the meeting was to get their view on the Montserrat’s redevelopment process: “I have [...]
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11 January 2013
Calls Human Resource handling of matter, incompetent - Attorney-at-Law, Jean Kelsick was the most recent attorney to call on Government to take action to provide long overdue adequate court accommodations, at the opening of the New Law Year, while speaking on behalf of the local bar association. He told the court, with newly appointed judge, [...]
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11 January 2013
In his December 18, 2012, Ministerial statement, the Hon Premier referring to the tobacco factory regardless of the opposition seemed proud to announce, “This project while two months behind schedule will soon employ a significant number of workers. This is evidence that we are rebuilding our manufacturing base to create private sector jobs. We have [...]
11 January 2013
Today we present just a few excerpts from Jamaica’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller’s address to her nation on what was introduced as giving a report card marking her first year in office. The idea of this is to present a country which receives very poor rating from the IMF etc and one whose crime rate [...]
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11 January 2013
There were no questions or discussion surrounding the fact that the Minister of Finance, the Hon Premier Reuben Meade had sought to take monies budgeted to get the Commissions created under the new 2010 Constitution installed and functioning, to pay garbage collection bills. The Hon Lowell Lewis only expressed surprise, “…I didn’t realize that so [...]
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11 January 2013
”Courthouse buildings burnt, arson suspected” [email protected] Comment: I think this stands as notice to the Government of Montserrat and the legal system on island to clean up their act and stop the cover-ups and fixing of cases behind the scenes. You can fool some people some times but you can’t fool all the people all [...]
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11 January 2013
by Al Sears, MD Let’s assume you’re the ideal patient. You eat your vegetables, you don’t smoke, you drink in moderation, you avoid junk food, and you exercise every day. Do you, the role model of healthy living, really need to take vitamins? Yes. Nutritional supplements help make up for some of the foods we [...]
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05 January 2013
The 50th anniversary of Montserrat’s Annual Christmas Festival dubbed ‘Festival 50’, saw the first Annual John Bassey Award for the Best Social/Political Commentary in Calypso, in memory of late Chief Minister John Alfred Osborne, who was also very well-known by his nickname “John Bassey”. The announcement had come in a press release issued on December [...]
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05 January 2013
Editorial – January 4, 2013: As the New Year 2013 opens, it brings down the curtains on the celebration of another festival, only this time it was the jubilee festival talked about and planned for, perhaps in hindsight a little too late. Montserrat Festival 50, a cultural festival, supposed to have been a homecoming for [...]
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04 January 2013
St. Kitts (WINN): President of the Caribbean Court of Justice Sir Dennis Byron describes the role of the free press in a democracy as “not to be underestimated” and identifies several similarities between the best journalists and the best judges. Sir Dennis, former Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court and two –term President [...]
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04 January 2013
Have you heard the news that eating beans and other legumes might actually make women happier? The reason isn’t clear, but I suspect that it has less to do with enjoyment of sophomoric jokes about “musical fruits” and more to do with these foods’ myriad health benefits. In fact, I’m hoping to inspire you to [...]
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04 January 2013
New facilities for two sections of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, as well as a Regional institution, all based in Bridgetown, Barbados, were officially opened on Monday by the Hon. Freundel Stuart, Prime Minister of Barbados. The two sections of the Secretariat – the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) Unit and the Office of [...]
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04 January 2013
Jus wonderin how many people will not make the effort because they do not have computer or access to computer, or simply do not take the trouble to go to the “Government website” to see who the Festival 50 awardees were. Jus wonderin if all those people deserve to suffer and be starved of the [...]
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04 January 2013
GIU (adapted) – According to reports, sixty seven (67) persons were recognized during the island’s first ever festival Awards Banquet which was held at the Montserrat Cultural Centre on Wednesday night, (Jan 2). The honorees included 39 former festival queens, 16 past calypso monarchs, and twelve special awardees, acknowledged for their invaluable contribution to Montserrat [...]
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04 January 2013
World Cancer Day in this year 2013 will be on February 4, 2013 and the focus on the day will be on Target Five of the World Cancer Declaration: Dispel damaging myths and misconceptions about cancer, under the tagline “Cancer – Did you know?”. The World Health Organisation (WHO) is promoting that World Cancer Day is [...]
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04 January 2013
By Staff Writer Miss M.S Osborne, Khadija Furlonge walked proudly away with the 2012 Festival 50 Queen Show crown amidst the glitz and glamour she and her fellow contestants presented to a sizable and appreciable audience at the festival city in Little Bay, for the Festival 50 Queen Show 2012. The five beautiful young ladies [...]
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04 January 2013
Britain’s swelling overseas aid budget has created a new group of “poverty barons” paying themselves up to £2 million a year for their work helping the disadvantaged. By Andrew Gilligan The Department for International Development (DFID) paid almost £500million (in 2011) to consultants, mostly British, many of whom earn six, even seven-figure incomes, courtesy of [...]
04 January 2013
By Staff Writer The crowd at the Montserrat festival 50 teenage pageant opening scene sensed professionalism as they ‘oohed’ and ‘awwwed’ with the Sunrise Production organizers seem to outdo themselves at this year’s pageant which they named ‘I am Festival!’ There were six segments that made up this year’s show, but only five were judged. [...]
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04 January 2013
The 50th anniversary of Montserrat’s Annual Christmas Festival dubbed ‘Festival 50’, will see the first Annual John Bassey Award for the Best Social/Political Commentary in Calypso, in memory of late Chief Minister John Alfred Osborne, who was also very well-known by his nickname “John Bassey”. The announcement came in a press release issued on December [...]
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02 January 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) —They had 80 hours to finish or fail. Stuck in a “fiscal cliff” stalemate, trust nearing tatters, President Barack Obama and Senate Republicans changed the game after Christmas. It took the rekindling of an old friendship between Vice President Joe Biden and GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell, an extraordinary flurry of secret offers, a [...]
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31 December 2012
A comment posted on the website asked: “Why is there so little coverage in this newspaper about events taking place as Montserrat celebrates its 50th year of festival? Assuming that one or more reporters from the paper are attending the events and so would expect to see more coverage than this sole article. We are [...]
31 December 2012
Jus wonderin wey jus wonderin gan and wha mek no more jus wonderin there. Jus wonderin why all the advertising for the big jobs and even the small ones dem no advertise in the local website and newspaper as the law require dem to do. Jus wonderin wha de position position be wid de road [...]
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31 December 2012
By Vivian Tyson, Senior SUN Editor Premier for the Turks and Caicos Islands, Dr. Rufus Ewing is calling on Islanders not to rejoice in the wak of the apprehension of former premier Michael Misick last week by Interpol agents in Reo de Janeiro, Brazil, but rather wish for a fair trial if it comes to [...]
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31 December 2012
Continuation of an article written by Clive Bacchus (WINN) (see: Sir Dennis Press serves society best when independent of political control) “The judiciary and the press seek to maintain good governance and the rule of law. And, I note with pleasure, from my little readings on the internet and otherwise, that WINN FM has garnered [...]
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31 December 2012
The matter involving Alfred “Murphy” Edwards who had been told some years ago that he would eventually be asked to vacate his location at Carrs Bay by the end of the year languishes on. According to Murphy he was told several years prior that he will have to vacate his residence and small business on [...]
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31 December 2012
He performed two very topical songs to snatch the crown he has now come accustomed to winning. His first song, Shortly After Take-off reflected on the tragic FlyMontserrat plane crash which occurred on Antigua in October this year and took the lives of three of four people on board including the pilot just after [...]
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31 December 2012
Editorial – December 31, 2012 We thought it could be useful to recapture a few paragraphs from some of the Editorials in 2012, randomly. At times, a theme appeared that seem to sound like a ‘stuck record’, but perhaps that is resting heavily on our minds for as the year drew to an end, nothing [...]
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31 December 2012
Night of Pan was excellent The annual night of pan held on Monday December 17, 2012 despite a disappointing turn out could still be hailed as excellent and well organized. The event has featured on the festival calendar since 2004 and is organized by the Director of Culture, Herman “Cupid” Francis. Before curtains on the [...]
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31 December 2012
By Claude Gerald For Alfred Murphy at Murphy’s Corner to continue his unceasing and relentless squatting at Caars Bay, speaks poorly of the executive management of this protracted matter. The long and short summary is that Murphy’s presence remains a block to the development goals set by the Government of Montserrat because he is allowed [...]
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31 December 2012
St. Kitts – The Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis is to get a new Governor General from January 1, 2013. The announcement has come from St. Kitts and Nevis’ Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas during his annual Christmas Message to the Nation on Tuesday (Christmas Day). “And with 2012 drawing [...]
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31 December 2012
A release dated December 20, 2012, from the Montserrat Volcano Observatory (MVO) announced Mr. Roderick Stewart has been appointed as Director, effective 21 December 2012. According to the release, “Mr. Stewart has a diverse background in volcanology, having worked in Papua New Guinea and Japan prior to the start of his work on Soufrière Hills [...]
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31 December 2012
Gershom J Allen is a young Montserratian and is among those who have become authors during the past year. The book is titled ‘The Perfect Love Triangle.’ It advises, “The gift of relationship is free, don’t waste it on anyone who doesn’t deserve it.” Gershom speaks about himself and writes: “All my life I wanted [...]
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21 December 2012
by Bennette Roach : A brief release from the Governor’s office has stated Royal Montserrat Police Services (RMPS) Commissioner of Police Steve Foster, will resume duty on 19 December, with the word from the release being, “Investigations into allegations of misconduct are still ongoing but the Governor has considered that it would be unreasonable to [...]
21 December 2012
Editorial – December 21, 2012 Montserrat celebrates at this time its 50th year of Festival, a festival that is sometimes called carnival, which is perhaps different because it is celebrated at Christmas time which we know is the time a ‘Christian’ country like celebrates the birth of Christ. Over these many years, there are two [...]
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21 December 2012
by Bennette Roach : Alrick C. E. Taylor, on September 28, 2012 was announced as the new Deputy Governor to replace Mrs. Sarita Francis who demitted office of the end of October. Mr. Jim Taylor, as he is more affectionately known was due to take office early in November and was sworn in to the [...]
21 December 2012
Festival 50 for some people began the night of the Calypso Eliminations when some 32 calypsonians vied to reach the semi-finals putting them one step closer to the prize of EC$ 15,000 and the crown. But officially, Montserrat Festival 50 opened on Saturday evening with some flair and even fireworks. The festival opened by declaration [...]
14 December 2012
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada — Grenada will not bow to pressure to legalise marijuana, said Prime Minister Tillman Thomas, who made the declaration on Friday in an address to the 9th Annual General Meeting of the Grenada Drug Information Network and National Observatory on Drugs (GRENDIN/NOD). Thomas noted that the recent decision by some states in [...]
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14 December 2012
Caribbean 360 Professor Avinash Persaud, an international expert on the financial services sector and chairman of the London Business School. (Credit: socialistsanddemocrats.edu) ST JOHN’S, Antigua – The region has been struggling to keep up with evolving international regulations at the high cost of undermining its international financial services sector. At the second meeting of the [...]
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14 December 2012
Architectural designer and property developer who puts the Caribbean on the Architectural World Map Lord Michael Bates, Ian “Sugar George” Edwards, Stewart Shield, President, International Property Awards Ian “Sugar George” Edwards, Architectural Designer and Property Developer of Sunset Homes headquartered in Anguilla, was honored with five (5) prestigious International Awards for Architecture and Property Development. [...]
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14 December 2012
The following was emailed to the Hon. Parliamentary Secretary, Jermaine Wade and copied to The Montserrat Reporter. The house is to be raffled the end of this month. Hello Jermaine, Very recently I took some visitors who had Montserrat roots out to Lookout to view the raffle house as they were interested in buying some [...]
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14 December 2012
By DAVID McFADDEN Associated Press Jamaica (AP) — The leader of the Cayman Islands’ government was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of theft, abuse of office and breach of trust in the famed Caribbean tax haven. Premier McKeeva Bush was detained Tuesday morning at his home in the West Bay section of Grand Cayman island by [...]
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14 December 2012
Human Rights Day presents an opportunity, every year, to celebrate human rights, highlight a specific issue, and advocate for the full enjoyment of all human rights by everyone everywhere. This year, the spotlight is on the rights of all people — women, youth, minorities, persons with disabilities, indigenous people, the poor and marginalized — to [...]
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14 December 2012
CaribbeanNewsNow ST GEORGE’S Grenada — The Royal Grenada Police Force is undertaking a campaign to address how corruption is dealt with in the Force. As part of its strategic plan, the force is mandated to stamp out corruption amongst its officers. It also forms part of the greater public sector reform initiative. Assistant Commissioner of [...]
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14 December 2012
If the people that projects authority are not savvy in what they are doing and Murphy beat them many times, so be it. Murphy would win on the grounds of squatter’s rights; but although adamant domain is impenetrable in the case of moving a private person to accommodate the public the government could pay Murphy [...]
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14 December 2012
Jamaica Observer WE won’t presume to know whether Mr Michael Misick, the former premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), is guilty or innocent of the corruption charges being laid against him. But we are pleased that he will have his day in court. In our view, his capture in Brazil bodes well for [...]
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14 December 2012
The Government of Montserrat has finally sorted out the planned outsourcing programs. At the turn of the new year it will begin outsourcing the school lunch programme and the school bus service. School lunch programme privatised as of January 1, 2013 The government has agreed to give EC$ 10,000 in start-up funds to a private [...]
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14 December 2012
Aspire, Apply, Achieve “Class of 2012 – you have a duty and responsibility to actively participate in building Montserrat.” Miss Kadine Cabey speaking as the top student of the 2012 MCC (Montserrat Community College) Graduating class reminded her fellow graduates, “It is now entirely up to us to realise our true potential and take our [...]
12 December 2012
David and Clover Lea and their family, along with so many others in Montserrat, saw a need for a place for our young people to come to socialize and have fun, yet also be inspired and encouraged. A place where they can see positive films and hear and play positive music, both live and otherwise. [...]
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09 December 2012
Nerissa Golden (GIU) – The crowd cheered and danced as 32 calypsonians, some old and some new took to the brand new stage at Festival Village for the Calypso Eliminations on Saturday, December 8. Montserrat is gearing up for the launch of its 50th year of festival that opens on Saturday, December 15. The eliminations [...]
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08 December 2012
On January 5, 2010 International cricket umpire, Basil Morgan wrote to Chief Minister, the honourable Reuben T Meade and advised of his record as a crickter, and his continuous involvement in the sport. In that letter he informed¸” At the age of twelve (12) years and eight (8) months, I began appreciating the game of [...]
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07 December 2012
By Claude Gerald The criminal justice system on Montserrat is ailing, rapidly deteriorating and for the foreseeable future, perhaps hopeless even by moderate standards of judgement. The creation of this problem is not acknowledged generally. Neither is the solution materially on hand to ensure the theoretical certainty, which the rule of law, in its impurity, [...]
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07 December 2012
Trinidad Guardian Dr Kenny Anthony, Prime Minister of St. Lucia CASTRIES—Caribbean Community (Caricom) chairman, Dr Kenny Anthony has expressed disappointment that the United Kingdom has “opted to retain its discriminatory approach” in dealing with the controversial Air Passenger Duty (APD). Anthony, who is also the St Lucia prime minister, had written to the British Chancellor [...]
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07 December 2012
30 great reasons to make home remedies from Aloe vera – the legendary healing plant of the Egyptians, Greeks and Native Americans – (plentiful in Montserrat) by: JB Bardot (NaturalNews) Over 6,000 years have passed since the Egyptians referred to the common houseplant Aloe vera as the “plant of immortality,” due to its myriad of [...]
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07 December 2012
Premiers, chief ministers and other elected representatives from Britain’s Overseas Territories were welcomed on Wednesday to 10 Downing Street by Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron, the first time that territory leaders have had a collective meeting with a British prime minister. The meeting with Cameron came at the end of the second day of the [...]
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07 December 2012
Adapted: Jamaica Observer FISHERFOLK across the Caribbean are set to benefit from a timely Euro 117,956 ($13.6 million) project which will help them develop a more sustainable and professional industry. The project will also target the quality of life of the fisherfolk and the nutrition obtained from seafood. The project will enable fisherfolk to continuously [...]
07 December 2012
By Bennette Roach Monday morning, December 3, opened a high note on the question that security at the Government Headquarters had somehow been compromised. The High Court and Magistrate Court, separate buildings appeared to have been “fire bombed”, according to police who said they have no leads to suspects. We were prevented from seeing the [...]
07 December 2012
Jamaica Gleaner It is costing countries in the region about $50 million a year to treat those infected with HIV/AIDS. UNAIDS Country Coordinator, for Jamaica, Belize and the Bahamas, Pierre Somse said that amount is projected to increase by 25 million per year for within the next five years. Somse pointed out that it also [...]
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07 December 2012
Why is it that any time you sit alone Curious mind will ask “what you doing” Knee jerk reaction straight up lie… ‘nothing” Obviously you are sitting You are-standing in deep meditation Same question answer is ‘ nothing” Nothing settles an argument like ‘nothing” It’s the other word for leave me alone Or the mind [...]
07 December 2012
All who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. – Romans8:14 (NRSV) Every morning on my way into the city I drive past a corner shop situated in a busy part of the city and above its busiest section. Usually before 8:00 am, the owner of the business stands outside on [...]
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07 December 2012
Six Months to Live So the doctor tells the patient he’s got only six months to live. But the patient doesn’t pay his bill on time, so the doctor gives him another six months. Movie Ratings G: Nobody gets the girl. PG: The good guy gets the girl. R: The bad guy gets the girl. [...]
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07 December 2012
Editorial – December 7, 2012 : There is always the deliberation of taking into consideration ‘your priorities’. The words Montserrat has heard since mid-1995. That language should have changed since May of 1996. What is easy to imagine, that no one has ever asked of those who had to step in to pick up the [...]
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07 December 2012
Miss Doneltha Weekes is the deputy head teacher at the Lookout primary school, and she is speeding ahead in pursuit of a bachelor’s degree in education. To do this she has invited and has been involving the community to be part of her studies and invited The Montserrat Reporter to witness her at work. We [...]
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07 December 2012
Trinidad and Tobago:- The Caribbean Agriculture and Research Development Institute (CARDI) hosted a Regional Symposium on ‘Strengthening the Protected Agriculture Industry for improved food and nutrition security’ at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Port of Spain, Trinidad from Wednesday 21st to Friday 23rd November, 2012. These facilitators from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) [...]
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07 December 2012
By Rory Butler – Antigua – A former president of the Fishermen’s Co-operative wants more arrests after three French anglers were caught over the weekend for illegally fishing in Antigua & Barbuda’s waters. “It’s about time we have more capturing of French fishermen in our waters because … in Guadeloupe they believe it is their [...]
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07 December 2012
TCI News Premiers, chief ministers and other elected representatives from Britain’s Overseas Territories were welcomed on Wednesday to 10 Downing Street by Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron, the first time that territory leaders have had a collective meeting with a British prime minister. The meeting with Cameron came at the end of the second day [...]
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03 December 2012
By Bennette Roach Monday morning opened on a high note on the question that security at the Government Headquarters has somehow been compromised. The High Court and Magistrate Court, separate buildings appear to have been “fire bombed”, and police are only able to say they have no leads to suspects. We were prevented from seeing [...]
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30 November 2012
by Bennette Roach Security is a developmental issue. (social, economic and cultural) The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) brought together CARICOM media personnel, journalists and national broadcasters together at a three-day workshop held at the United Nations Barbados headquarters, Marine Gardens, Christ Church. In her brief opening remarks at the launch of the 2012 Human [...]
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30 November 2012
A Statement issued by British American Insurance Company Limited (in Judicial Management) (“BAICO”) promises a payback to BAICO Owners of Flexible Premium Annuity (“FPA”) Policies. Under an ECCU Policy Holders Relief Program, Owners of FPA Policies issued in the East Caribbean Currency Union will receive a payment equivalent to the amount of their policy balance [...]
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30 November 2012
There is no reprieve on the cost of living which keeps rising in Montserrat, with the rise in tariff on imports and now the continuing escalation of gasoline prices. Anyone who has not yet booked a vehicle for use during the Festival season will not be lucky to find one, they are reportedly all solidly [...]
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30 November 2012
Epidemiologist Dorothea Hazel while challenging the Montserrat Diabetes Association at their Annual General Meeting, reminded the association that “the reward for work is more work.” Miss Hazel delivered the feature address when she issued the “two-fold” challenge to the members. 1. Continue What you do; and 2. Look for new avenues. In the conversational address [...]
30 November 2012
Dr. Michael Owen was speaking the day after he contributed to an audience at the Montserrat Diabetes Association’s annual general meeting which was held on World Diabetes Day, Wednesday, November 14, 2012. He said diabetes can no doubt impact negatively on productivity and ultimately economic and social development, adding that the issues with the dreaded disease [...]
30 November 2012
Mrs. Valerie Lynch meantime was re-elected as the president of the Montserrat Diabetes Association (MDA) along with several of her old executive, at the Association’s annual general meeting. The AGM was held at the Lookout Elderly Community Centre on World Diabetes Day, November 14, 2012. The Association conducted a week of activities joining in the [...]
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30 November 2012
Last week Monday, November 19, Justice Thomas W. R. Astaphan handed down a sentence against John Jones of eleven (11) years in prison for manslaughter. The sentence met the ire of many who first challenged and questioned the change of the charge from murder to manslaughter, both charges carrying sentences up to life. The Police [...]
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30 November 2012
Antigua Observer By Martina Johnson Commissioner of Police Vere Browne has been condemned for his alleged attack on the judiciary following his recent call for the dismissal of Chief Magistrate Joanne Walsh and an investigation into her decision to discharge a case against several political figures. The criticism comes from the Antigua & Barbuda Bar [...]
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30 November 2012
Editorial – November 30, 2012 When studying where Montserrat falls in the scope of citizen security and human development, we find it falls in the category where the issue of public confidence in the island’s capacity to protect citizens and ensure justice. In that context, citizens lack a certain degree of confidence in the police, [...]
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27 November 2012
A Statement issued by British American Insurance Company Limited (in Judicial Management) (“BAICO”) promises a payback to BAICO Owners of Flexible Premium Annuity (“FPA”) Policies. Under an ECCU Policy Holders Relief Program, Owners of FPA Policies issued in the East Caribbean Currency Union will receive a payment equivalent to the amount of their policy balance [...]
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26 November 2012
By BERT WILKINSON Special to the NY AmsterdamNews Will this bring final closure and recompense to Montserrat and the rest? Authorities in Trinidad are preparing to launch a criminal probe into the 2009 collapse of the English-speaking Caribbean’s largest single company to determine why the conglomerate went belly up and who were the main beneficiaries [...]
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25 November 2012
Channel Islands and Isle of Man will be among those ordered to reveal names behind hidden accounts By Jamie Doward The Observer Radical plans to force the UK’s tax havens to reveal the names behind hidden companies, account holders and trusts have been drawn up by the Treasury. The news has delighted tax justice campaigners, [...]
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23 November 2012
PNP wins 8 seats, PDM 7 It was late one summer Friday afternoon in mid-August, the remnants of the British Empire grew a little bit larger; the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) were declared back under direct British rule. A statement from the British Governor in the TCI stated on 14 August: “We have today [...]
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23 November 2012
Editorial – November 23, 2012 Montserrat is experiencing a situation which is taking its people back to years many especially resident know nothing of, or cannot remember or do not wish to remember. It is one that we have echoed and mentioned time and time over, but which unfortunately exits and encouraged because it suits [...]
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23 November 2012
by Bennette Roach On October 8, 2012, Premier the Hon. Reuben T Meade proudly declared the launch of a long awaited “Business Financing Facility” (BFF) which will be operated by the MDC in collaboration with the SPCCU. After officially launching the BFF which followed an overview of a Financial Management workshop (FMW) by Mrs. Teresa [...]
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23 November 2012
with room to spare President Obama overcame a bad economy, high unemployment and a fractured political landscape to win a second term in the White House Tuesday night, defeating challenger Mitt Romney by taking several key battleground states. Long before he hit the campaign trail, President Obama and the members of his team said the [...]
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23 November 2012
by Capt. John Based on a recent trip that I made to neighbouring Nevis, was so amazed to see not two or three, but five first class supermarkets, with aisles and aisles of first class (unblemished) fruit and vegetables; isles of frozen meats and fish; and a huge selection of groceries; foods; beverages, etc. in [...]
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23 November 2012
By Cathy Buffonge As Montserrat prepares to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of its annual year-end Festival in December, there is an initiative to encourage and promote healthy lifestyles in the weeks leading up to the Festival. This voluntary initiative is spearheaded by electronic technician and former Festival committee chairman Gregory Willock, and Albrun Semper, both [...]
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22 November 2012
By Felicia Persaud News Americas, NEW YORK, NY: Dear Mr. President, With on this official day of thanks, I reflected as I forced myself to do each day, on the many things I have to be thankful for and how lucky I am, especially to be an immigrant in this country who is not just [...]
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20 November 2012
This Saturday, November 26, 2012, the Montserrat Red Cross (MRC) will host a variety show and auction with the goal of raising enough funds to purchase two automated external defibrillators. According to Red Cross Patron Mrs Sujue Davis, the wife of His Excellency the Governor Adrian Davis, the evening will begin at 6:30pm at Government [...]
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09 November 2012
According to a Government of Montserrat Memorandum each household on Montserrat will once again be able to receive barrels over the Christmas period, starting now, without having to pay the normal import duty charges. The memo which is based on SR&O No. 56/2012 informs of Cabinet’s approval of the waiver of the customs duties on [...]
01 November 2012
Travellers coming to Montserrat during the Christmas season will benefit from an extended ferry service to the island from Antigua. The service will operate on December 1, 5, 6, 7, 8 and then from December 10 to January 12, 2013. The service will not operate on Christmas Day (Tuesday, December 25). The current ferry service [...]
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26 October 2012
Hello everyone – It is kid’s time with Auntie Lyka “In Your Korner”. You are now back in school and it is now time for the home stretch to end of term. Hope you are revising your school work in preparations for your End of term test. Remember he who fail to prepare, prepare to [...]
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26 October 2012
Author : Johnny Mac (IP: 99.101.70.34 , 99-101-70-34.lightspeed.tukrga.sbcglobal.net) E-mail : [email protected] Comment: Development is a multifaceted exercise. It is not just the result of a partnership between HMG and GOM. While they play critical roles in the process, development is much more multifaceted than that. Indeed there can be no authentic development unless the general [...]
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26 October 2012
The first words came to us at about 10 a.m. on Tuesday, October 23, 2012. “The Governor sent home Foster, is that true?” That began a furore of investigations beginning with a silent Governor, who at first and for several hours said nothing. Several other sources would only confirm, eventually a release from the Deputy [...]
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26 October 2012
As part of observing and carrying out activities for ECCB’s Financial Information Month (FIM) representatives from financial institutions on the island participated in a financial clinic on Wednesday, October 24, 2012, organinsed by the East Caribbean Central Bank and hosted by the local agency office. The financial institution which comprised primarily the banks, Bank of [...]
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26 October 2012
Ben Meade, son of Montserrat’s Premier Hon. Ruben T. Meade began his media career and is a former reporter and on-air personality at ZJB Radio Montserrat. He has been appointed as News Director at Cayman 27, the local news channel in the Cayman Islands. Ben has been with the company for the past two years [...]
26 October 2012
How Does Water Get Into Aircraft Fuel Tanks? Following the Interim Report on the FlyMontserrat crash on October 7, 2012, which stated, “investigation of the fuel system feeding that engine found significant quantities of water,” the question of maintenance and other issues have been widely discussed. Chris Lynt – E-mail: [email protected] sent us this follow-up. [...]
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26 October 2012
Editorial – October 26, 2012 Three weeks ago we published an Editorial about deception and suggested that there is too much of it all around in Montserrat, perpetrated from outside and within. We accused Her Majesty’s Government through the Foreign Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the Department for International Development (DFID) as well as our own [...]
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26 October 2012
As the Hon. Justice Pereira progresses from acting, the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court has its first female Chief Justice. In a letter to His Excellency the Governor Adrian Davis, the Honourable Justice Janice Mesadis Pereira stated that on Tuesday, 16 October, she received notification from the Crown Office of the Ministry of Justice in England [...]
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26 October 2012
The Montserrat Rotary Club with assistance from Rotary International on Friday last, October 19, made a donation of two open incubators or radiant warmers to the Obstetrics Unit at the Glendon hospital. At the brief handover ceremony, Rotary Club president Dr. Braimah Kassim (Glendon Hospital surgeon) says the donation is part of Rotary’s mandate to [...]
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26 October 2012
The Montserrat Rotaract Club hosted its first Charter Dinner to celebrate 25 years of service to the Montserrat community at the Good Life Night Club last Saturday, September 29. The Anniversary Dinner was originally anticipated to cater to a group of sixty (60) individuals but only saw a total of 39 persons. In attendance were: [...]
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26 October 2012
By Bennette Roach A Department for International Development (DFID) team visited the island to assess whether the Government of Montserrat (GoM) has met its six-month milestones in the Strategic Growth Programme, milestones due to be completed by February 2013. Some good progress but some not good was the report, suggesting that a rethink on some [...]
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26 October 2012
George Allen Jr’s death still labeled as “unnatural” In other reports by the Royal Montserrat Police Service Commissioner Foster and his deputy, RMPS is presently awaiting the return of an officer from Trinidad & Tobago with exhibits and results from tests conducted on the body of George Allen Jr. who died in June earlier this [...]
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25 October 2012
Editorial – October 19, 2012 For some time now, months, even years there have been some events, occurrences, publications, debates, reports and in-actions which have rolled by seemingly unnoticed by most, but not by everyone. Not by everyone we say, but there is a problem. For the few who notice, a good many of them will [...]
22 October 2012
FlyMontserrat Woes – Add Sabotage to the mix by Rev Dr John Weekes <[email protected]> Not surprisingly, many people who are regular passengers on FlyMontserrat, and those living abroad who have already booked tickets to fly from Antigua to Montserrat for the Christmas holidays are very worried because of the fatal accident on October 7 and [...]
21 October 2012
In Feb. 2011, The Montserrat Reporter was not asking for more. We asked HMG for fairness and decency. Mitchel visiting Montserrat, told the media, at three points in the press conference, “I would be the wrong approach to be like a new born bird waiting in the nest for the mother bird to bring nourishment… I [...]
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20 October 2012
VIENNA, Austria (CMC) — The International Press Institute (IPI) and other media organisations have congratulated Grenada on becoming the first Caribbean state to decriminalise defamation, but urged the Grenadian government to further abolish seditious libel. According to Grenada’s Ministry of Legal Affairs, a July reform to the country’s criminal code included the repeal of Section [...]
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19 October 2012
People still talk about the first plane crash top of the 1960s when a pilot crashed at Waterworks, and PanAm crash in 1965, followed much later by one of the Payne brothers and later, Len Kocen who owned the Shamrock cinema. All that was in the long past until Sunday, October 7, 2012 shortly after [...]
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19 October 2012
The Iceland Drilling Company Ltd. through its head Vilhjalmur Gudmundsson, Head of Marketing and Business Development for Jardboranir, signed a contract while Philip Chambers, Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Communications & Works represented the Government of Montserrat. IDC was the only company to submit a bid to drill for geothermal on island. The company [...]
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19 October 2012
by Chris Lynt E-mail : [email protected] My last trip out this summer, Jason was the pilot. VC Bird airport is often subject to very storng winds, even when the weather is clear. In stormy conditions, a microburst could occur. The revving of the engines would be consistent with the pilot trying to compensate for an [...]
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19 October 2012
“Restrict use of sodas for healthy living, but manufacture tobacco for export” by Jo-anna E-mail : [email protected] The man must be nuts! He won’t condemn alcohol because that is he has his own problems with alcohol, so he cannot condemn what he loves. How can he speak about non-communicable diseases and not recognize cancer as [...]
16 October 2012
The talk, the complaints, the calls and claims had not yet been silenced before the news came around 9.00 a.m. that another FlyMontserrat aircraft had run off the runway at John A. Osborne airport in Montserrat. This comes after its fatal crash in Antigua on Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012 with three dead and one critically [...]
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12 October 2012
At the end of our report online of The Montserrat Reporter website (www.themontserratreporter.com) we promised updates, which was posted on The Montserrat Reporter Facebook page (see: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Montserrat-Reporter/203080105851?ref=stream). FlyMontserrat’s managing director Nigel Harris had said giving very limited details surrounding the crash, “the Air Accidents Investigation Branch from the Department for Transport in the UK has [...]
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08 October 2012
First reports out of Antigua inform that the pilot of a FlyMontserrat aircraft, a female passenger and are confirmed dead, one critically injured who later died and one other survivor, after the nine-seater plane crashed shortly after takeoff at VC Bird International Airport in Antigua around 4:16pm on Sunday, October 7, Antigua Observer reported. At [...]
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05 October 2012
The report began that Aubrey Barry had been hit in his head with a hammer and had to be medivaced out. But it was late on Friday, the Royal Montserrat Police Service (RMPS) described in a peculiarly written press release from themselves late on Friday, that regarding the widely spoken of death of an entrepreneurial [...]
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05 October 2012
A ZJB report says that Delta Petroleum Montserrat Ltd., sole suppliers of petrol and liquid propane gas in Montserrat announced new prices for propane gas effective Wednesday, September 26, 2012. The company confirmed the new price from $175.00 to $192.00 a 10.29% or $17.00 increase for 100 lb cylinder. The 20 lb cylinder is now [...]
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05 October 2012
By Bennette Roach After introducing the matter of the construction of a tobacco factory in Montserrat, a topic he knew was sure to come up at his most recent press conference on September 18, Premier Meade referred to “some people making noise about whether it is right to be doing tobacco factory…” and shut down [...]
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28 September 2012
After months of advertising and re advertising since May this year, shortlisting and revisions thereof, Government House today announced that the Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Office has approved the appointment of Mr. Alric Taylor as the next Deputy Governor of Montserrat. “Mr Taylor was the unanimous choice of the local interview panel.” [...]
28 September 2012
High school teachers throughout the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) gathered to experience various techniques for creating and delivering exciting and compelling presentations on business and money management as the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) hosted a Train the Trainers workshop for High School teachers on Wednesday, September 26, 2012 The workshop provided knowledge, practical [...]
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28 September 2012
Judge Astaphan questions police as he rules for relief to Warren Cassell and his law firm against seizures In a significant ruling handed down Friday, September 21, 2012, the High Court of Montserrat has granted Attorney Warren Cassell, his wife Cleo and the legal firm Cassell and Lewis, leave to file a lawsuit seeking several [...]
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28 September 2012
The Rotaract Club of Montserrat donated a basket of toiletries to the Margetson Memorial Home on Thursday, August 30, 2012. The handover took place at the Home and was done by the President Miss Lyandra Hobson and Club Community Services Director, Mr. Geffen Gerrald. The basket included toilet papers, toothpastes, vaselines, juice and other much [...]
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28 September 2012
Making your heart strong and healthy With the compliments of the Health Promotion Unit World Heart Day – 29 September 2012 The heart is the organ that sustains the pulse of life. The average adult heart beat is 70-75 beats per minute. Children have a higher rate in the 80′s and 90′s, depending on their [...]
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28 September 2012
Why didn’t the Government announce the bid price from the public opening of the Geothermal Drilling proposal which was US$6,360,032 (over 17 million EC)? Why did the Government say that they have 12.9 million EC$ for the complete Geothermal proving, when the only acceptable bid for the drilling alone, was 19.1 million EC$? Why has [...]
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27 September 2012
Below is a story carried in the July 6, 2012 issue of The Montserrat Reporter. The ferry Codrington Arrow arrived in Montserrat today (Sep. 27) as a back up to the Carib Queen that is experiencing operational problems. (See earlier story) following July 6, 2012 Winston Chin has been employed with the Twin Island ferry [...]
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07 September 2012
Schools, employers and other institutions could be taking in people with purchased results Tyrone Reid, Senior Staff Reporter The Jamaica Gleaner Caribbean Examinationso Council (CXC) passes are available for sale on the streets of Kingston for up to $12,000 per subject, even if you did not take the exam. The Sunday Gleaner has been able [...]
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07 September 2012
Over the past week the Education system of Montserrat has been the turmoil of confusion as the new school year begun. Parents learned from the children that some subjects had been removed from the timetable that was being presented on a daily basis. Prior to the start of school parents, particularly those sending children to [...]
07 September 2012
Just as we went to press Capt. John Howes would have been participating in Farmer’s Corner on ZJB where he expected to discuss At the time of going to press this article forced us There is a MAJOR LION FISH INVASION of the ENTIRE Caribbean & Montserrat’s Waters.. Lion Fishes, are now found ranging from [...]
07 September 2012
Member of Parliament leads the opposition side of the Montserrat Legislative Assembly, as one of three (independent) members. He champions the notion that the Government that seats six of the nine elected members of the Legislative Assembly, does not get it right in their approach to the Britain in getting the support Montserrat needs to [...]
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03 August 2012
NaturalNews.com (NaturalNews) A glass of warm lemon or lime water first thing in the morning is surprisingly helpful in several ways. This Yogic or Ayurvedic ritual was primarily for stimulating digestion and eliminating ama, the Ayurvedic term for toxic slime that builds up in the gastro-intestinal or GI tract. This ritual has even more health [...]
20 July 2012
Construction initiated-20 new houses in the wood-works for Davy Hill “A new direction in housing,” is how the Honourable Minister with responsibility for Housing, Mr. Easton Taylor Farrell dubs the new Davy Hill housing development, at a recent ground breaking ceremony in Davy Hill on Saturday. The Davy Hill new housing development plan is set [...]
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20 July 2012
Construction on the A1 road project have been put on hold yet again, as the Public Works Department (PWD) struggles to rectify the situation to get work back on course. This setback is one of many that have plagued the project since its commencement in 2010 and have been the subject of criticism and frustration [...]
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20 July 2012
evrod samuel says: HOW SELFISH Only a select few Can spellbound the masses It seems We lift them up on a plinth Made up of the new third estate And glorify them as demigods They walk not But trample all underfoot We are their minions Enthralled to them we Give them all Unholy wolves Swaddled [...]
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06 July 2012
Montserrat’s Minister of Agriculture and the Environment, Easton Taylor-Farrell has urged person’s on island to help in raising the profile of Agriculture. Mr Taylor was at the time speaking at the official launch of the second phase of the “Food Production Strategy for the Department of Agriculture” on Friday, June 22, 2012 at Jerome Meade’s Greenhouse [...]
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06 July 2012
Police are still unable to make an official ruling on the suspicious death of George Allen junior, affectionately known as ‘Ezra David’. Ezra passed away at the Seventh Day Adventist Hospital in Trinidad where he clung to life for three months after he was discovered ravaged, on the brink of death in a ghaut, at [...]
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06 July 2012
Editorial – July 6, 2012 The recent “No Confidence Motion” that was tabled and debated against Premier R T Meade primarily, and his government, gave the Ministers and back benchers (Parliamentary Secretaries) a great opportunity to get for the benefit of Montserrat a more cohesive, progressive, confident and educated leaders. But, on even the shallowest [...]
06 July 2012
Premier the Hon. Reuben T. Meade survived his second motion of no confidence against him, calling it frivolous and vexatious, not surprisingly with a vote of no 7-2. During his submission in defence, the Premier after said he would have voted in favour of the motion, but said he would describe the Motion using, “the [...]
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06 July 2012
“We are the voice of our generation and through the CARICOM Youth Ambassador (CYA) Programme we work together to influence the direction of youth programming in the region,” Montserrat’s Youth Ambassador, Mr. Ian Gerald sets the tone for the CYA Corps prospect. According to a CYA Press Release, Mr. Gerald made the statement on return [...]
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22 June 2012
by TMR Staff The Premier has been insisting in his several utterances, seemingly accepting that his government ‘messed up’ on the tariff shake-up debacle. That is so, since he returned from misrepresenting the people of Montserrat as he recommended the delisting of Montserrat from the United Nations Decolonisation list. There hasn’t been heard anyone who [...]
22 June 2012
On June 19, 2012 GIU issued a release from the Governor’s Office which warned, “If anyone is found in Zone V, apart from those sand miners who have been given permission to do so, they are liable to arrest and will appear before the Magistrate.” This warning comes on the heels of complaints by sand [...]
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08 June 2012
On May 1 following the signing of the MOU with DFID Premier Reuben Meade hinted that there was soon to be progress of a manufacturing plant developed in Montserrat. He said at the time he was not at liberty to say what kind of plant it would be. Since then there have been much speculation [...]
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