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World Bank Launches $1.2 Billion Fast-Track Facility for Food Crisis
- By S Coward
- Published 10-Jun-08
- Food & Oil Crisis
- Unrated
June 10, 2008 -- The World Bank Group
announced today it would support global efforts to overcome the global
food crisis with a new $1.2 billion rapid financing facility to address
immediate needs, including $200 million in grants targeted at the
vulnerable in the world's poorest countries.
Food Summit calls for more investment in agriculture
- By S Coward
- Published 09-Jun-08
- Food & Oil Crisis
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6 June 2008, Rome – The Summit on soaring food prices,
convened by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), has
concluded with the adoption by acclamation of a declaration calling on
the international community to increase assistance for developing
countries, in particular the least developed countries and those that
are most negatively affected by high food prices.
Free groceries for 'vulnerable' Islanders in Turks & Caicos
- By S Coward
- Published 09-Jun-08
- Food & Oil Crisis
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Provo -- June 9, 2008 -- Wartime-style distribution centres to enable the “poor and vulnerable”
to access cheap groceries are poised to be set up across the Islands
amid sky-rocketing food prices.
Dominican Republic Tourism Minister Says Airline Cuts Hurt Travel & Cargo
- By S Coward
- Published 09-Jun-08
- Airlines/Cruiselines , Food & Oil Crisis , Travel/Tourism
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June 9, 2008 -- (http://www.dr1.com): Tourism Minister Felix Jimenez and Airport
Department director Andres Van Der Horst concur that the profitability
problems affecting the airlines and leading to cuts in flights and
frequencies to the DR has a direct effect on remittances, agriculture
and tourism.
CARICOM S.G. Calls for More Investment in Agriculture
- By S Coward
- Published 09-Jun-08
- CARICOM , Economy, Trade & Investment , Food & Oil Crisis
- Unrated
CARICOM,
Guyana -- June 9, 2008 --Edwin Carrington Secretary-General of
the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) said the Region
needed to change the general unfavourable investment
climate for agriculture, relative to other economic
sectors.
Projects, not chat - Guyana President Jagdeo urges at Caribbean Agricultural Investment Forum
- By S Coward
- Published 07-Jun-08
- Economy, Trade & Investment , Food & Oil Crisis
- Unrated
Georgetown -- June 7, 2008 -- President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday challenged the participants of the
Regional Agriculture Investment Forum to keep the speeches short and
get down to brass tacks so that investment and production become a
reality.
PIOJ to Assist Jamaica PM to Prepare for Meeting on Global Food/Fuel Crisis
- By S Coward
- Published 07-Jun-08
- Food & Oil Crisis
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Kingston -- June 7, 2008 -- Prime Minister, Bruce Golding says that he is seeking the assistance of
the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) in preparing Jamaica to make
its contribution to a special high level meeting involving several key
international figures.
St. Kitts & Nevis Suggest Ways in combating rising fuel costs and high food prices
- By S Coward
- Published 06-Jun-08
- Food & Oil Crisis
- Unrated
Basseterre, St. Kitts -- June 6, 2008 -- St. Kitts and Nevis
Prime Minister Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas has been suggesting ways in
which the Caribbean can combat rising fuel and food prices.
Food Summit Ends with Declaration and Disgruntled Latin American Nations
- By S Coward
- Published 06-Jun-08
- Food & Oil Crisis
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Bloomberg -- June 6, 2008 -- Argentina, Venezuela and Cuba
criticized a declaration hammered out by 180 countries at the
World Food Summit in Rome yesterday, saying it failed to identify
the true causes of rising food prices.
COMMENTARY: Tourism Crisis Soars: Caribbean Airlines Sink
- By S Coward
- Published 06-Jun-08
- Airlines/Cruiselines , Economy, Trade & Investment , Food & Oil Crisis , Travel/Tourism
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By Sir Ronald Sanders: Tourism in the Caribbean Community and Common market
(CARICOM) countries is in deep crisis as trumpeted by St. Lucia’s
Minister of Tourism, Senator Alan Chastanet, at an emergency meeting of
the Caribbean Tourism Organization in late May.
Region's Food Import Bill Set to Rise
- By S Coward
- Published 06-Jun-08
- Economy, Trade & Investment , Food & Oil Crisis
- Unrated
Port-of-Spain -- June 6, 2008 -- The amount of money this country and others in the region spend on
importing food is set to rise by at least 40 per cent by the end of
2008.
High expectations for Investment Forum on Agriculture in Guyana
- By S Coward
- Published 05-Jun-08
- Economy, Trade & Investment , Food & Oil Crisis
- Unrated
Guyana -- June 5, 2008 -- President
Bharrat Jagdeo, who has lead responsibility for agriculture within
CARICOM, has high expectations that the two-day Investment Forum on
Agriculture which begins here tomorrow would produce tangible results.
St. Kitts and Nevis energy strategy to promote and contribute to sustainable development
- By S Coward
- Published 05-Jun-08
- Environment/Energy , Food & Oil Crisis
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Basseterre, St. Kitts -- June 5, 2008 -- The development of
bioenergy and other alternative forms are of critical importance to St.
Kitts and Nevis.
St. Kitts, Nevis Calls on FAO to Help Member Countries With Seeds & Fertilizers
- By S Coward
- Published 04-Jun-08
- Food & Oil Crisis , Economy, Trade & Investment , People/Culture/Lifestyle
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Basseterre, St. Kitts -- June 4, 2008 -- St. Kitts and Nevis
Prime Minister Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas has called for the suspension
of the protocol with the World Trade Organization (WTO) to allow Member
Countries to produce more local agricultural products.
Nevis Island Authority Announces Domestic Gas Increase; Will Continue to Subsidise Cost to consumers
- By S Coward
- Published 02-Jun-08
- Food & Oil Crisis
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Charlestown -- June 2, 2008 -- Despite the Nevis Island Administration's (NIA)
continued subsidization of domestic gas (cooking gas), it was forced to
sanction an increase in the commodity with effect from June 01, 2008.