27 January 2012
DFID’s private sector development expert and their representative in Montserrat has hinted that there will be no funding before February next year for the development of a port. Dr. Kimbugwe was speaking at the Governor’s monthly press conference held on Wednesday, Jan. 25 after it was postponed from Jan. 10, 2012, normally scheduled for the [...]
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27 January 2012
The curtains came down on the 2011 Christmas Festival celebrations with a Street Parade and closing ceremony on Monday, January, 2, 2012. Festival 2011 took place under the slogan, “Fete, Party Day & Night, Montserrat Festival 49th’’and began with the calypso Elimination on Friday December, 9 at Festival City. Hundreds came out to experience the [...]
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27 January 2012
Dated December 13, 2011, the IMF Executive Board issued under Public Information Notice (PIN) No. 11/156, a report ‘2011 Article IV Consultation Discussions with United Kingdom–Montserrat–British Overseas Territory,’ just fifteen days after it concluded the first ever Article IV consultation discussions with Montserrat a U K British Overseas Territory. In the first week of January [...]
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27 January 2012
His Excellency the Governor Adrian Davis and Deputy Governor Sarita Francis have begun a series of meetings with senior civil servants from Assistant Secretaries, up in all ministries and departments. Governor Davis made remarks responding to questions about public servants status and performances at his monthly press briefing revealed that three sessions have already been [...]
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27 January 2012
While addressing the public services lack-luster performance, the Governor said: ”Both the premier and myself are absolutely clear that the priority is to get economic growth and development growing again in Montserrat, to bring Montserrat closer towards the path of financial independence. One of the ways to do that is to encourage people to return [...]
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27 January 2012
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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25 January 2012
By CMC – WASHINGTON, CMC – United States President Barack Obama has offered a life line to illegal Caribbean immigrants, urging the US Congress to work with him on “comprehensive” immigration reform. In his election-year State of the Union address on Tuesday night, Obama said he believed “as strongly as ever that we should take [...]
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24 January 2012
January 24, 2012 BRUSSELS, Belgium – Fellow Heads of Government, Ministerial Colleagues, OCTA Executive Committee Members, Delegates, it is my pleasure to be the Chairman and host of this our 10th EU/OCT Forum here in Brussels in 2012. I bring greetings from Montserrat the Emerald Isle of the Caribbean. I wish, on behalf of the [...]
20 January 2012
At nine-weeks old when he arrived, Felix Reuben Louis Davis is the grandson of Governor Davis and his wife SuJue and they are claiming Felix to be the youngest visitor to Montserrat during the Christmas season. Felix disembarked at the John A Osborne Airport on Wednesday, December 8, 2011 with his mom Amy Davis, a [...]
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20 January 2012
Wills is headed on vacation! Kate Middleton may have gotten a head start with some fun in the sun on the island of Mustique, but as it turns out, her hubby Prince William isn’t far behind! “He’s leaving tomorrow morning,” a source tells Us Weekly. “It wasn’t set in stone because William needed to clear [...]
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