Beaches a major driver of the Turks and Caicos economy, but…

KINGSTON, Jamaica - PREMIER Rufus Ewing of the Turks and Caicos Islands yesterday responded to the Jamaica Observer’s June 21, 2013 editorial which criticised the British Overseas Territory for its treatment of Beaches resorts and Jamaicans generally. Ewing acknowledged the vast contribution o...
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T&T ‘hot seat’ for CARICOM

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - A WEEK from tomorrow Heads of Government of the 15-member Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) should be in Port of Spain for a three-day regular annual summit that officially gets underway on Thursday, July 4. The historical significance of this regular summit ...
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CARICOM: Change is easy, but improvement is difficult

KINGSTON, Jamaica - THE current trade concerns, discussed by Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago, represent the growing pains within the regional trading environment after 40 years of endeavour and investment intended to arrive eventually at a viable common economic and cultural space. We will then be...
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Is CARICOM the bloc the builders rejected?

KINGSTON, Jamaica - THE global economy is traversed by a network of constantly shifting economic/trade blocs, of which the 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has been the second-longest running economic integration scheme, at 40 years old, counting from the 1973 Treaty of Chaguaramas. Only the...
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Democracy and ‘the voice of the streets’

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - The government of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has been mindful not to go down the same road as others – that of Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan being the most recent – that have opted for bullish, often brutal responses to popular protest. ...
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Brazil’s protesters sick of corruption

It’s an odd spectacle. Traditionally, Brazilians take to the streets only during Carnival. Now they do it to protest. What has happened? It all started after the fares for public transportation were raised, but that was just an excuse. There was more to it. The profound truth is that much of ...
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US Coast Guard rescues Haitian fishermen

MIAMI, CMC – The United States Coast Guard says it has rescued five Haitian fishermen aboard a disabled vessel that had been drifting in the waters off northern Haiti. A brief Coast Guard statement said officials were notified that the vessel had been found in the area of Canal de Tortue and ...
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DPP not giving update

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - DIRECTOR OF Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard SC yesterday said he would not “fall prey” to calls for an update into the criminal investigation into the criminal investigation into the collapse of CL Financial Ltd, CLICO and related subsidiaries. In a two...
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