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GRENADA-LABOUR-Union gives regional airline deadline to pay arrears
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, Sept 6, CMC – The Technical and Allied Workers Union (TAWU) has written to the Antigua-based regional airline, LIAT, demanding that it pays one million dollars (One EC dollar =US$0.37 cents) by the end of this month as part of the outstanding five million dollars in arrears to workers here. ... Full story
LIAT workers in Grenada demand payment
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, Sept 6, CMC – The Technical and Allied Workers Union (TAWU) has written to the Antigua-based regional airline, LIAT, demanding that it pays one million dollars (One EC dollar =US$0.37 cents) by the end of this month as part of the outstanding five million dollars in arrears to workers here. ... Full story
HAITI-DEVELOPMENT-Haitian legislator says earthquake-ravaged country making progress
MIAMI, Sept 6, CMC - A top Haitian legislator has given the assurance that the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country will pass investor friendly legislation as the country seeks to lure foreign investors to help in rebuilding following the powerful earthquake in 2010. ... Full story
TRINIDAD-POLITICS-COP will not leave government
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Sept 6, CMC – The Congress of the People (COP) party says it will not leave the four-party coalition People’s Partnership government despite a move by a senior party official to get members to vote on such a motion if the incumbent National Security Minister Austin “Jack” Warner is not removed from office. ... Full story
UNITED STATES-CRIME-Jamaicans, Bahamians among convicted criminal immigrants arrested
MARYLAND, Sept 6, CMC - United States immigration officials say they have arrested an undisclosed number of Jamaicans and Bahamians as part of its “ongoing commitment to prioritizing the removal of criminal aliens and egregious immigration law violators”. ... Full story
JAMAICA-EDUCATION-Government warns of prosecution for people selling faked educational credentials
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Sept 6, CMC - Education Minister, Reverend Ronald Thwaites says people engaged in providing fake educational credentials could face prosecution and urged students instead to use their energies in obtaining legitimate certification. ... Full story
DOMINICA-POLITCS-Opposition says process to elect new head of state flawed
ROSEAU, Dominica, Sept 6, CMC - The main opposition United Workers Party (UWP) has written outgoing President Nicholas Liverpool indicating that the process to select his successor is flawed and is blaming the Roosevelt Skerrit administration for the situation. ... Full story
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ROSEAU, Dominica, Sept 6, CMC - The main opposition United Workers Party (UWP) has written outgoing President Nicholas Liverpool indicating that the process to select his successor is flawed and is blaming the Roosevelt Skerrit administration for the situation. ... Full story
ST. LUCIA-CRIME-Government warns of zero tolerance to crime
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Sept 6, CMC – The St. Lucia government says it will adopt a zero tolerance approach towards crime on the island following six murders here in as many days. ... Full story
BAHAMAS-DEVELOPMENT-IDB funds multi-million dollar road project
WASHINGTON, Sept 6, CMC - The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) says it has approved a US$65 million loan to complete the expansion and rehabilitation of the road network under The Bahamas' New Providence Transport Programme. ... Full story
