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CARIBBEAN-POLITICS-Three Caribbean islands owing UN fees

UNITED NATIONS, CMC – Three Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries are in arrears with payments to the United Nations and have “lost” their vote in the world body.

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CARIBBEAN-POLITICS-OAS congratulates Barbados, Grenada on election victories

WASHINGTON, CMC - The Organization of American States (OAS) says the electoral victories of Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart and his counterpart in Grenada, Dr.

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GUYANA-AGRICULTURE-Guyana to host Caribbean Week of Agriculture 2013

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana will host the Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA) this year after a 10-year hiatus, senior programme coordinator of the Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural

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What about us?

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - Are we ready and open for business? Recently, Dr. Patrick Antoine, chief economic advisor to the new Grenada Government declared this was now so in his country.

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Dr Worrell: Keep pace with the competition

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - The way to outrun the competition in the international market is to improve productivity. This was the advice given by Dr.

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Reducing debt, improving economic growth

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC - Prime Minister Perry G.

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Energy Ministers meet for special COTED in Trinidad

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Dr. the Honourable Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St.

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Russia to partially write off Cuba’s US $25 billion debt

HAVANA, Cuba, CMC – Russia’s Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov says his country will forgive part of Cuba’s US$25 billion Soviet-era debt and restructure the rest as part of agreements t

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US denies plans to remove Cuba from terror list

WASHINGTON, CMC – The United States has denied reports that it plans to remove Cuba from a list of countries that support terrorism. “I saw that report.

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Cuban President Raul Castro
Raul Castro re-elected for second term

Cuban President Raul Castro has been re-elected for a second five-year term.

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Lloyd’s failure to get seconder unbelievable

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - IT is unbelievable that former Guyana and West Indies cricket captain Clive Lloyd has failed to get a seconder as a nominee for the presidency of the West Indies Cricket Boar

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Government responds to controversial German advertisement

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - The Government has responded to concerns surrounding the controversial advertisement by German appliance company Saturn, which includes images showing the improper handli

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Former top cop murdered

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington has described as “shameless, heartless and senseless” the murder of retired deputy superintendent of police, Denzil Boyd, 63, who wa

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Constituents thank God for Manning

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Former prime minister Patrick Manning stood for more than an hour yesterday as members of his San Fernando East Constituency Office held a special thanksgiving ceremony

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Duprey, Monteil refuse to testify as Clico Commission of Enquiry begins tomorrow

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - When the Eleventh Evidence Hearing of the Commission of Enquiry into the collapse of CL Financial and the Hindu Credit Union (HCU) begins tomorrow morning at the Winsure

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Haiti: Jamaica’s embarrassment

KINGSTON, Jamaica - It might sound like the Jamaicanised pronunciation of the number which comes after 79, but Haiti is a historical enigma and its people are a worthy of respect, dignity and eve

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Queen has to go - It’s for Jamaicans to decide - Portia

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has reiterated the Jamaica Government’s position on shifting Jamaica further away from its neo-colonial state by putting plans in place to

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A clean sweep and a second chance

KINGSTON, Jamaica - THE 'wipeout' of Prime Minister Tillman Thomas's first-term National Democratic Congress (NDC) Administration at Tuesday's general election in Grenada was a stunning political

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Something’s stirring out there…

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Last month it was Tobago.

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