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Clearance cancelled

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Shanique Myrie was actually cleared to enter Barbados when she first arrived in the country two years ago.

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Regional countries urged to collaborate more to take advantage of trade agreements

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados Foreign Affairs Minister Maxine McLean Wednesday urged Caribbean governments to capitalise on opportunities to work together to chart a path towards regional

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Immigration Officer denies existence of policy to treat CARICOM nationals badly

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A veteran immigration official Wednesday denied that Barbados had been treating Caribbean Community (CARICOM) nationals harshly in contravention of the CARICOM Single

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Crime and regional transportation affecting Caribbean trade

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr.

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World Bank suspends funds to Grenada

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – The World Bank has suspended disbursements to Grenada after seven loan defaults in February.

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U.N. calls on Haiti to set long-delayed election

MIAMI — As a Haiti investigative judge demanded that two parliamentarians be held accountable in the recent assassination of a police officer, the U.N.

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Former premier charged

GEORGETOWN, Cayman Islands, CMC – Former premier William McKeeva Bush has been formally charged with two counts of misconduct after he was arrested late last year.

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EPA—regional export strategy nexus highlighted

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Honourable Anthony Hylton, Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce of Jamaica, has underscored that “the Caribbean Forum of Afr

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Securing export markets through traceability systems for agricultural products

CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Stakeholders in the Regional agriculture sector are to hold further discussions shortly to flesh out the development and application of a

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EDITORIAL - Echoes from the wrong war

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Yesterday's deadly bomb blasts in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities were bloody reminders of the country's continued instability and the fact that it could still collapse into a

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EDITORIAL: Syria is bleeding to death

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Last Friday was the second anniversary of the uprising in Syria and is a brutal reminder of the impotence the entire world has shown in resolving a conflict that has wrough

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Obama, Arriving in Israel, Offers Reassurance

TEL AVIV – President Obama landed here on Wednesday to begin a highly symbolic two-day visit to Israel, the first of his presidency, offering reassurances to a wary Israeli public of the support

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Douglas Orane: Time for dramatic change to structure, governance of WI cricket

KINGSTON, Jamaica - "It is incumbent in all of us to make our voices heard, armed with the facts, that the time has come for a dramatic change to the structure and governance of the West Indies C

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‘I’m not under house arrest’

PORT OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD - Daryan Warner, the eldest son of National Security Minister Jack Warner, has dismissed speculation that he is under house arrest in the United States.

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Former government minister dies

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former government minister and diplomat John Donaldson jr died Tuesday at a private hospital after a prolonged battle with cancer. He was 71 years old.

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Don’t ignore the creative industries

KINGSTON, Jamaica - It is estimated that there are as many Jamaicans living abroad as there are in Jamaica.

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National Security Minister stands ground on illegal flying squad unit

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – National Security Minister Austin “Jack” Warner Tuesday maintained that he had no knowledge of an illegal flying squad operating in Trinidad and Tobago and like the

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IMF delay - Phillips says ‘contingent’ talks holding up deal

KINGSTON, Jamaica - FINANCE Minister Dr Peter Phillips told Parliament yesterday that 'contingent discussions' are holding up submission of the Government's programme to the International Monetar

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Neonatal mortality rates in the Caribbean cause for concern

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A three-day workshop aimed at creating a regional strategy to accelerate the reduction of maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity began here Tuesday amid conc

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