At the recent ECCB media practioners workshop, Montserrat and Anguilla were asked during discussions whether the UK had to approve our budgets. Montserrat participants read from the DFID statement just handed to us a few days earlier during the DFID press briefing following their budget discussions in mid-January. Premier Meade may have well been privy [...]
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We repeat: A vigourous education program is what is needed ‘all round’
Posted on 27 January 2012.
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DFID is obviously dissatisfied with much on budgetary affairs
Posted on 20 January 2012.
The Government of Montserrat (GoM) needs to show that it is a team committed to the future progress, development and rejuvenation of Montserrat, and not just any single person, group or entity. In the meantime Her Majesty’s Government (HMG) through their Ministries, whether it be the Department For International Development (DFID) or the Foreign Commonwealth [...]
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This is a call for the education of the people
Posted on 30 December 2011.
Editorial For years now and aggressively in recent years the Ministry Education has been searching for ways to improve on the education system in Montserrat. One of the issues has been the decay of discipline and behavior of the children in the schools. Another has been that children have been retiring from the Montserrat Secondary [...]
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The New Year pretends to hold so much, but how prepared are the minds?
Posted on 23 December 2011.
The Christmas season is well upon us and it is the time of good cheer of giving, a time if you never shared love that you share, give and receive. The priest asked of his congregation recently during his homily at Sunday Mass, what Christmas meant them. One answer was “work”. He asked at first [...]
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Confidence will have to be backed by performance for commitments to materialize
Posted on 16 December 2011.
The recent visit by the British Department of International Development (DFID) Minister of State Alan Duncan may turn out to be the one that will be mostly remembered by Montserrat for at least the next ten years. In fact, before this time next year we expect that the two per cent growth that Premier Meade [...]
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Much still depends on Montserrat, HMG insists their commitment
Posted on 09 December 2011.
The visiting Minister MP Alan Duncan of DFID, with his team which included recent visitor Deputy DFID head, Ian McKendry, following previous visits from Secretary of State Andrew Mitchell, and other DFID teams are all supposed to be somehow sending or bringing us some message. One thing is clear, and it is the repeated message [...]
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It’s time for exposures – activate the people in the middle
Posted on 02 December 2011.
When Premier Meade two weeks ago, lashed out before leaving for participation in the annual Overseas Territories Consultative Council (OTCC), at Her Majesty’s Government (HMG) saying he was sick and tired of their many questions, which he regarded as rubbish. He said that he, “had enough of studies and consultations,” as he thought it was, [...]
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Governor Needs to Get it Right
Posted on 24 November 2011.
The following is from an Editorial in October 1997, but let’s begin with a short excerpt of an article written by Bennette Roach in the same issue, “Governor Abbott insults Montserratians”. When Governor Anthony Abbott arrived in Montserrat on September 9, 1997, he came prepared to spread the British Government’s message of development for Montserrat, [...]
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Where is the excitement about the lowering of the Volcano Hazard Level
Posted on 11 November 2011.
Last week we hesitated to make it the big news it was supposed to be, but promoted it nevertheless. One comment to us, even suggested that it was published like it was an afterthought. Of course not, we made it prominent online at the website www.themontserratreporter.com, and as a result on The Montserrat Reporter Facebook [...]
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Time for education is urgent – Not right at the top, will be wrong at the bottom
Posted on 04 November 2011.
It is our hope that those people entrusted with the duty or the ‘job’ of explaining the rudiments of the new Montserrat Constitution Order, are indeed concentrating on what ARE new in it and different from previous. We want to applaud the eventual formation of the Alliougana Human Rights Goup (AHRG) which was created out [...]
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