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Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau’s representative for the Eastern Caribbean, Annette Manning, says persons will travel in spite of new tax.

LITTLE IMPACT

The additional US$70 Barbadians and other persons will have to pay when heading to international destinations will have little impact on travel in the long run.

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Minister in the Ministry of Financial Economic Affairs and Investment, Marsha Caddle, centre, listens attentively to a point being made by Vice-Chairman of the Caribbean Association of Audit Committee Members Inc., Dalton Lee, after the official opening of the Committee’s workshop at the Hilton hotel, while, from left, Director Johnson Cenac, Secretary of the Barbados Chapter, Krystle Howell and Chairperson, Melissa Simon, listen on.

Region encouraged to work together

IF Caribbean nations are to solve the challenges the region is currently experiencing, all must come together as one.

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Dr. Kenneth Connell (centre), Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacology at the UWI, Cave Hill Campus and President of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Barbados, speaks to the challenge of childhood obesity, as Professor Margaret Anne St. John (left), Consultant with the Department of Paediatrics at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Director of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Barbados; and Francine Charles, HCC Communications and Advocacy Officer, Childhood Obesity Prevention, give him a listening ear.

dangerous LINK

“Fat kids are not cute.”

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