Aid shortfalls jeopardize Haiti’s humanitarian programs

For the first time since four back-to-back storms and hurricanes battered Haiti five years ago, the U.N.’s lead feeding program and other agencies don’t have enough food to stockpile in strategic areas before a major storm hits. In some of the most remote corners of the country, people a...
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‘Bring Jack Back’ group formed

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Disbelief, hurt, disappointment and sadness gave way to determination yesterday as hundreds of people from the constituency of Chaguanas West came together to form a lobby group called “Bring Jack Back.” Led by chairman of the La Paille/Caroni party group, Indal...
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Post-Jack, Partnership future hangs in balance

balance PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - APRIL 21, 2013 counted as the first day in the rest of the life of the People’s Partnership, born exactly three years before in Fyzabad. Headlines yesterday reported the departure of Jack Warner, maybe the most fearsome of the political heavyweights in the Par...
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Resignation long overdue

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The Trinidad and Tobago Chamber of Commerce said yesterday it was “pleased” with the resignation of Jack Warner as National Security Minister as it was long overdue. The organisation, however, lamented a continued lack of transparency in the Government. The Cham...
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MP stays with UNC, gives up chair

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - “Don’t cry for Jack Warner, you haven’t seen Jack Warner yet.” That was the message to supporters yesterday from Jack Warner who has resigned as national security minister and chairman of the United National Congress (UNC). Warner met executive membe...
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Jack Warner’s humiliating end

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - After Friday’s revelations at Fifa, enumerated in a damning report prepared by Sir David Simmons and released to the public, it was just a matter of time before the People’s Partnership Government and Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar would have had to make ...
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EDITORIAL - Warner’s Stench And Lessons For The PM

KINGSTON, Jamaica - For decades, wherever he has stood, especially with regard to football, Austin 'Jack' Warner left a stench - of the type most people associate with corruption. That, of course, has never been proven where such things are determined - in courts of law. What was unique abou...
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PM says Jack Warner was a distraction to government

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar said she accepted the resignation of her embattled national security minister Austin “Jack” Warner because he had become a major distraction to the work of her coalition People’s Partnership government...
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China quake: Rescue teams blast roads amid aftershocks

China is continuing a massive rescue operation in Sichuan province, deploying thousands of workers, after a powerful earthquake on Saturday. Rescue workers are using dynamite and heavy equipment to get through roads blocked by landslides to reach remote areas, reports say. But reaching these areas h...
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Conservative Tobacco Magnate Wins Presidential Race in Paraguay

ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay — Horacio Cartes, a Paraguayan tobacco magnate, faced various challenges during his presidential bid. He was pressed to explain why antinarcotics police officers apprehended a plane carrying cocaine and marijuana on his ranch in 2000; why he went to prison in 1989 on ...
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