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24 Jun 2011
By MATTHEW SALTMARSH
Published: June 11, 2010
PARIS — The government of the Maldives wants its money back — $400 million to be precise.
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, the former president of Maldives, and his associates are believed to have looted some $400 million from the country’s government.
That is the amount that it estimates was looted by its former president, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, and his associates. Mr. Gayoom dominated politics in the Maldives, a tiny Indian Ocean nation...
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24 Jun 2011
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Port-au-Prince – Haiti and the Dominican Republic kicked off a joint project last month to increase vegetation cover and improve living conditions for people on both sides of the countries’ shared border.
The two neighbours, sharing the island of Hispaňola, launched a four-year project, Green Border (Frontera Verde, in Spanish), to reduce high levels of natural disaster risk for local inhabitants along the border that runs through several rivers and watersheds.
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Delegates from the Seychelles, Mauritius, Madagascar, La Reunion and Comoros gathered in Mauritius this week with airlines serving the region now called the “Vanilla Islands,” to take stock of the situation on hand and to discuss the way forward.
The meeting was co-chaired by the Mauritian Minister for Tourism&Leisure, Mr. Nandcoomar Bodha and the President of the Region–La Reunion, Mr. Didier Robert, and assisted by Dr. Karl Mootoosamy, the Director of the MTPA of...
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21 Jun 2011
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Within the next 12 months, Government will be putting a policy and legislative framework in place which supports energy efficiency and renewable energy.
This was disclosed by Minister in the Prime Minister's Office, Senator Darcy Boyce, who was speaking at the launch of the Barbados Renewable Energy Association, (BREA) at Bagnall's Point Gallery, Pelican Village, today.
Senator Boyce stated that government is interested in renewable energy and energy efficiency for a number of reasons...
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20 Jun 2011
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The Honourable Nizam Baksh on Friday (February 4th, 2011) met with representatives of the Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business of the University of the West Indies, to discuss the possibility of starting a certificate course training programme in community development for Community Development Officers.
Since taking office, Minister Baksh has been ardently supporting certificate training for Community Development Officers (CDO) and persons aspiring to become CDO’s.
