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By Michron Robinson
The Easter edition of Baje to the World focused on yet another challenge. This time it was jazz and contestants delivered in sophistication and sultry style on the evening.
Top performances came from poet Cyndi Celeste, who seems to have a magic key to the judges’ hearts with her spoken word. Also ending the night on a high was
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Minister of Energy and Business Development Senator Lisa Cummins has proposed a revamp of how government funding is provided for entrepreneurs, as she admitted that the current approach is not working.She has promised to undertake the ambitious task of “creating a financing ecosystem” that provides financing options tailored to each sector based on its unique vulnerabilities and challenges.“One of the new things I would like to be able to work through is a refashioning of the way in which we approach financing for entrepreneurs,” said the former Tourism Minister who was given the current ministerial portfolio just over two weeks ago.“There is quite a body of work that has been done in the different types of support that different sectors need. What is needed for manufacturing is not what is necessarily needed for agriculture; what is needed for agriculture is not what is necessarily needed for the creative economy.
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