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Fenton: PAHO/WHO support vital to region

KINGSTON, Jamaica - HEALTH Minister Dr Fenton Ferguson has lauded the Pan American Health OrganiSation and the World Health Organisation (PAHO/WHO) for reaffirming their support to the Caribbean

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Developed countries criticised over failure to transfer technology

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC - Guyana’s Agriculture Minister, Dr.

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Farmers protest lack of action from Government

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Promises, promises and more promises. This is what angry farmers said they been receiving over the years from the Government.

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From farm to fork: improving nutrition in the Caribbean

GEORGETOWN, Guyana- Researchers from universities in Canada and the Caribbean will discuss improvements in the region's agriculture and nutrition during the Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA2013

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Barbados No. 1 in ICT in Caribbean

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados- Barbados is ranked No. 1 in the Caribbean when it comes to information and communication technology (ICT) development for 2012 to 2013.

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Belize makes plea on behalf of small island developing states

UNITED NATIONS, CMC – Belize Monday appealed to the international community to help Small Island Developing States (SIDS) overcome the problems associated with the global economic situation as we

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Antiguan diplomat urges greater private financing to supplement decreasing aid

UNITED NATIONS, CMC - Antigua and Barbuda Ambassador to the United Nations, John Ashe has called for “new and innovative” sources of financing to supplement decreasing official development assist

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EDITORIAL: Strengthening of Barbados/Guyana ‘friendship’ bond

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - It is of significance and relevance to note that even before last Friday’s historic decision by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in the case involving Barbados and the

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Professor Beckles: CCJ ruling ‘forward looking’

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The recent landmark judgment handed down by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in the case of Shanique Myrie versus The State of Barbados, which saw the Court ruling in M

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Myrie ruling ‘good for Caribbean’

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The Caribbean Court of Justice’s (CCJ) decision in the high profile Shanique Myrie case has implications for the broader freedom of movement regime, says principal of the U

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Four killed as US contracted counter-drug aircraft crashes in Caribbean

MIAMI, CMC - The United States Southern Command, which overseas US military operations in the Caribbean and Latin America, says a US-contracted detection and monitoring aircraft has crashed into

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Cuba/Barbados mark anniversary of 1976 bombing of Cubana flight

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados and Cuba have paid homage to the victims of the 1976 bombing of a Cubana Airlines jet off the coast of Barbados that killed all 73 people on board, lamenting

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Caricom
IMF predicts modest growth in 2013

WASHINGTON, CMC – After registering “disappointing growth" in 2012, Trinidad and Tobago is poised for a modest recovery in 2013, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said.

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Remittances almost triple development aid

KINGSTON, Jamaica - TORONTO, Canada (IDN) — A new report has highlighted the importance of funds remitted home by migrants, which are now nearly three times the size of official development assis

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Caricom
This shameful scenario affecting the Haitian people

KINGSTON, Jamaica - BURDENED as they may be with their respective domestic, social, economic and political challenges, it is becoming increasingly evident that the 15-member Caribbean Community (

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The Dominican Republic and Haiti: one island riven by an unresolved past

When Haiti was hit by the devastating earthquake in 2010, its island neighbour, the Dominican Republic, rushed to help.

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T&T PM must lead Caricom in settling Haiti-DR dispute

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - From her busy schedule of travel and other obligations, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar must make time for an ugly crisis engulfing two member states of Cariforum,

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Haiti disagrees with court ruling on migrants in Dominican Republic

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Haitian officials on Saturday expressed strong disagreement with a Dominican Republic court ruling that denies citizenship to children of Haitian migrants.

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