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Will Chávez’s Latin American legacy continue?

Hugo Chávez was a perpetual thorn in the side of the United States, sounding a constant drumbeat of anti-U.S.

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Chavez legacy: a polarised society

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - From the time in 1992 when, as a lieutenant colonel paratrooper in the Venezuelan army, he attempted a coup on the Carlos Andres Peres government, to being constitutiona

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Latin America After Chávez

HISTORY will affirm, justifiably, the role Hugo Chávez played in the integration of Latin America, and the significance of his 14-year presidency to the poor people of Venezuela, where he died on

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EDITORIAL - Life after Chávez

KINGSTON, Jamaica - AS WRENCHING as it may still have been for his mass of supporters around the world, few could claim that Tuesday's death of Hugo Chávez, the charismatic and controversial pres

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Caricom
EDITORIAL: Chavez reached out to CARICOM

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - THE NOT SO UNEXPECTED NEWS came on Tuesday night of the passing of Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan leader for the past 14 years.

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UWI panel on Chavez today

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Interim President of Venezuela Nicholas Maduro may likely win the upcoming election following the death of Hugo Chavez and his approach may be the same as Chavez’s, says

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Barbados’ lead attorney reprimanded in Myrie trial

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - AS Shanique Myrie’s case against the Barbados Government continued in the Caribbean Court of Justice at the Jamaica Conference Centre in Kingston yesterday morning, lead at

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Myrie trial moving to Barbados

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The Jamaica leg of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) trial in the case of Shanique Myrie against the Barbados government is now complete.

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Jamaica turned back as many CARICOM nationals as Barbados, CCJ told

KINGSTON, Jamaica - A senior Jamaican immigration official yesterday conceded, during the Shanique Myrie trial before the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), that there was no significant disparity

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Jamaica turned back as many CARICOM nationals as Barbados, CCJ told

KINGSTON, Jamaica - A senior Jamaican immigration official yesterday conceded, during the Shanique Myrie trial before the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), that there was no significant disparity

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Caricom
SG: Chavez a true friend of CARICOM

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque has described the late President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez

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President Chavez opened new chapter in CARICOM - Venezuela relations

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), His Excellency Michel Martelly, the President of Haiti, has stated that th

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REMARKS BY THE SECRETARY-GENERAL CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) AMBASSADOR IRWIN LAROCQUE ON THE…

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)The year 2013 has been designated the International Year of Statistics (Statistics 2013) to be

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Targets approved for renewable energy development and energy efficiency improvement in CARICOM

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The just-concluded Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on Energy has broken new gr

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Statistics will be the sexy job in the next ten years

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The sexy job over the next ten years will be statisticians.

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EDITORIAL: Fanning the flames of war in Syria

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The major issue preoccuping those interested in the Middle East is what to do about Syria, and whether the United States and Europe should provide military assistance to th

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Not ‘sweet’ WICB cricket

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - THE West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) is currently immersed in arrangements for its annual general meeting on March 27 at a time when the governing body of this region’s

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Caricom
EDITORIAL - Jamaica must stand for democracy, free speech

KINGSTON, Jamaica -There was a fair bit of chest-thumping by the Government recently over Reporters without Borders' ranking of Jamaica as the leading country for press freedom in the Western Hem

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Caricom
CARICOM says no Caribbean student killed in accident in Cuba

HAVANA, Cuba, CMC – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) says no Caribbean student had been killed in a vehicular accident here over the last weekend.

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Has Rio+20 made a difference?

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Under-Secretary General and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme Achim Steiner would say yes.

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