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TRINIDAD-ENVIRONMENT-Meeting between PM and environmental group ends on a sour note
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Aug 9, CMC – A meeting late Thursday between Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar and an environment group opposed to a section of the multi-billion dollar highway south
Dolphin treat at Burke’s Beach
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - FOR CLOSE to an hour and a half, bathers got an unusual treat when Burke’s Beach on Bay Street was transformed into an underwater park with the presence of more t
NEW YORK-COURT-Grand jury refuses to re-indict NYPD cop for killing Jamaican teenager
NEW YORK, CMC – A grand jury here has refused to re-indict a New York Police Department (NYPD) officer who last year shot dead a Jamaican youth in his own home.
Digicel to abolish US, Caricom roaming charges
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Observer -Digicel will eliminate roaming charges for clients travelling within the US and Caricom, effective October 1, 2013.
Organised communities can stop farm thieves
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Observer - NOT for the first time, the annual Denbigh show was held in the long shadow cast by that scourge of modern Jamaican agriculture, farm theft, stylishly referred to as
JAMAICA-POLITICS-Opposition wins by-election
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - The opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has won Thursday’s by-election in the Cassia Park Division of the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC) - the municipal body
JAMAICA-CRIME-Missionaries robbed
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - The police in the central parish of Manchester have launched an investigation into the early morning robbery of twenty-six missionaries.
HAITI-SECURITY- Security environment has improved says Prime Minister
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC - Haitian authorities are reporting that security across the country has improved in recent years due to efforts made to reinforce, train and equip the more than 10,000
GUYANA-DEVELOPMENT-Hugo Chavez Centre to open on the weekend
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC - The Hugo Chavez Centre for Rehabilitation and Reintegration - a US$2 million project, funded by the Government of Venezuela is scheduled to open on Saturday.
GUYANA-AGRICULTURE-US investors to use coconut water in energy drink
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC -The introduction of an energy drink with coconut water from Guyana as one of the key ingredients, is being conceptualised by American investors who met President Donald R
CARIBBEAN-FOOD-OAS calls for urgent action in addressing food security
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Organization of American States (OAS) has called for urgent action in addressing food security in the Caribbean.
Henry: Only Parliament can make reparations decision
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Observer - OPPOSITION Member of Parliament Mike Henry, says he has tabled his resolution on reparations again in Parliament, in an effort to force a political decision on the m
ADDRESS BY MR. EDWIN CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), AT THE OPENING OF
Hon. Billie Miller, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Barbados and Chairman of the Community Council of Ministers;
Other Hon. Ministers;
UN, Latin American leaders stress regional cooperation for global peace
(Miami Herald) - UNITED NATIONS Hoping to improve peace and security around the world, Argentine President Cristina Fernández led a day-long Security Council meeting Tuesday where she and other l
Obama cancels meeting with Russia’s Putin over Snowden decision
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) - U.S.
Britain opens world’s second-largest offshore wind farm
LONDON, (Reuters) - The world’s second-largest offshore wind farm, capable of generating enough electricity to power over half a million homes, was opened officially off England’s east coas
Japan says Fukushima leak worse than thought, govt joins clean-up
TOKYO, (Reuters) - Highly radioactive water from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is pouring out at a rate of 300 tonnes a day, officials said yesterday, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe orde
TRINIDAD-ENVIRONMENT-Environmentalist staging another protest outside Prime Minister office
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Less than a year after he staged a 21-day hunger strike to force the Trinidad and Tobago government to halt the construction of a multi-billion dollar highway, sout
