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Kudos for Guyana from UN systems

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The United Nations system in Guyana Tuesday congratulated Guyana on being among 38 countries that have met internationally-established targets in the fight against hunger ahead of the 2015 deadline.
Guyana and St. Vincent and the Grenadines are the only two Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries among 20 countries which have satisfied the primary target of the UN Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to halve the proportion of hungry people.

Spencer touts benefits of OECS integration

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Chairman of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer said being a part of the union helped member-states weather the global economic crisis, and that the future of the union looks bright.
“One shudders to contemplate what could have been the condition of our individual OECS member states in the face of the global crisis without the mutual support, which is a central feature of our current integration arrangement,” he said.

Veteran lawyer against joining CCJ

CASTRIES, St. Lucia CMC – A member of the St. Lucia delegation that attended the constitutional talks leading to the island’s political independence from Britain more than three decades ago, says he is “dead against” breaking ties with the London-based Privy Council.
Attorney Evans Calderon, one of two surviving delegates to the talks more than 34 years ago, told a local newspaper that he also believes that in order to join the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), the island would have to stage a referendum.

Pyongyang’s quixotic diplomacy

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - The tension that has made the Korean peninsula a global flashpoint for much of 2013 appears to have subsided  with the toning down  of North Korea’s nuclear rhetoric directed at the South and the US and Pyongyang’s call last week for “senior level” nuclear talks with Washington.
Still, the two states on the peninsula remain in a state of high military alert, that being a function of the quixotic nature of North Korea’s ‘diplomacy’ which is characterized by a propensity to adjust its posture with unnerving speed.

Randle to get honorary doctorate from UWI

KINGSTON, Jamaica - BUSINESSMAN AND publisher Ian Randle is to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of the West Indies (UWI). He is to be conferred at the annual graduation exercise on the St Augustine campus of the university in Trinidad and Tobago in October of this year.
A pioneer in the field of Caribbean publishing, Randle founded the first commercial scholarly publishing company in the Anglophone Caribbean, Ian Randle Publishers Limited (IRP).

Parliament gives green light to dangerous dog bill

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Jun 18, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago parliament has approved legislation resulting in owners of dangerous dogs, such as pitbulls, facing a 10-year jail term and significant fine if the dog kills a person.
Attorney General Anand Ramlogan, who piloted the Dog Control Bill, 2013 on Monday, said owners of these dangerous dogs would also have to have an insurance policy of  TT$250,000 (One TT dollar = US$0.16 cents) or higher.

EDITORIAL: This challenging children problem for Jamaica govt

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - VARIOUS MEMBER STATES of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) face social, economic and political challenges at this time. It could, however, be quite disturbing to learn that Jamaica is not alone in having the very serious problem of thousands of its children living without birth certificates and consequently being kept out of the school.
About a quarter million such children in this predicament are in a population of approximately 2.8 million, according to a child protection specialist with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Janet Cupidon Quallo.

Ruling party calls for resignations, by-elections

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC - The ruling St. Kitts Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP) has called for the resignations of two former members from Parliament saying they have breached the contracts given to them by the people who voted them into office during the last general election here.
“I think that as elected officials, they can just take a position and foist it on the people. We are saying that is not how it works, the people elect you, you must go back to them and get a fresh mandate from them,” said the SKNLP chair person, Marcella Liburd.

Barbados seeking closer relationship with El Salvador

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC - Barbados is seeking increased trade with El Salvador as part of efforts to increase relationship with the Central American country.
“We do some trade with El Salvador. We do not export as much to El Salvador as we should be doing…and we look forward, of course, to achieving some balance in our trading relationship,” said Prime Minister Freundel Stuart as he met with El Salvador’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Raymundo Rodriguez Diaz.

Government claims video showing beating of Cubans in detention centre is false NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas government has described as “a complete falsehood and an outrageous concoction” a video showing Cuban detainees being beaten by officers at a Bahamian detention centre.
Foreign Affairs and Immigration Minister Fred Mitchell said the government has since referred the matter to its lawyers.
He said he had seen a copy of the video purporting to show the beating at the detention centre and that it is of a news broadcast by a Spanish language TV station in Florida.

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