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~ Barbados’ wins bid to host international lifestyle cricket tournament ~ BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS. – Barbados has won the bid to host the 2017 Golden Oldies World Cricket Festival, an international tournament for semi-professional and retired players. Local cricketing legends, the Right Excellent Sir Garfield Sobers and Joel Garner, have joined a delegation led by Alvin Jemmott, chairman of the Barbados Tourism Marketing...

  SAINT LUCIA -- The Recent Move by the Prime Minister Hon. Dr. Timothy Harris-led new Team UNITY Administration in St.Kitts-Nevis to reduce Value Added Tax (VAT) on food, medicine and funeral expenses has  come in for high praises from throughout the region.  President of the St.LUCIA Civil Service Association (CSA) Mary Isaac has said that the government there  should...

DUBAI -- Kate Alex Woodley, the mother of former Prime Minister Dr. Denzil Douglas’ children, is refusing to relinquish the consular post he assigned her in the St. Kitts-Nevis Embassy in Dubai. The Observer was reliably informed that all ambassadors have been recalled with the exception of Taiwan and Jamaica. A government source confirmed this and that Woodley refused to leave...

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, March 29 2015 – Prime Minister Gaston Browne said LIAT CEO David Evans should resign if he was the author of a document calling for Barbados to quit the regional carrier and set up its own airline. Speaking on local radio this afternoon, Browne said he plans to hold a meeting with Evans on the matter. “I will...

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, March 28 2015 – Caribbean News Service (CNS) has obtained a document titled “Proposal for the Establishment of a Barbados Air Carrier.” The document, allegedly authored at the senior management level of LIAT, points to Barbados, LIAT’s majority shareholder, planning to quit airline The document proposes that a Barbados air carrier be established with its own Air Operators...

BELVEDERE, Sint Maarten -- March 28, 2015 results of the annual SMSEF Interscholastic Soccer Tournament at Johan Cruijff Court in Belvedere The day started with some light shattered showers and cloud cover, but finished with blue skies and a bright sun. With only two full days of games left to determine this year’s finalists, the “heat is on” for the teams to...

Dr Ram Buxani has been serving community for the last 56 years. DUBAI -- Dr Ram Buxani, 74, a resident of Dubai for over 56 years, has been conferred an honorary D.Litt. degree by DY Patil University, in Mumbai last week. On conferring the degree, Dr Sanjay Oak, Vice-Chancellor, DY Patil University, told Gulf News, “We looked at the contributions made...

OECS -- The OECS Commission’s weekly Tuesday Online Forum for key decision makers on health matters was replaced by a special session for health ministers. The session on March 24th2015 reviewed an OECS HIV Regional Strategic Plan (RSP) In the absence of the OECS Director General, Antigua and Barbuda’s health minister Hon. Molwyn Joseph chaired the meeting. The Tuesday online...

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten --- Honorable Prime Minister Marcel Gumbs has stated that as part of the integrity process for the government structure of the country, one aspect would be that all civil servants should have taken the oath when they were employed. Civil servants who were not sworn in after October 10, 2010, have now done so during the past...

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten – On Friday, March 27, Prime Minister Hon. Marcel Gumbs and Fire Chief Clive Richardson reviewed the uniform troops of firefighters who stood outside Government Headquarters in Philipsburg. The review of the uniformed officers was part of Firemen’s Week that concluded on Saturday evening with the annual Firemen’s Ball. The fire services fall under the prerogative of the...