Venezuelan oil program uncertainty fuels Caribbean concern

In the Dominican Republic, discounts on Venezuelan oil imports keep the lights on. In Jamaica, they are helping a limping economy stay afloat, and in Haiti, a young and inexperienced leadership is using them to achieve quick results. But despite financial benefits of the late Venezuelan President H...
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GUEST EDITORIAL: A thousand days to keep the Millennium Promise

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, but starting this week we can march a thousand days forward into a new future. On April 5, the world will reach a vital moment in history’s largest and most successful anti-poverty push – the 1,000-day mark before the target date t...
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Caribbean Airlines fined for barring passengers from leaving plane

WASHINGTON (CMC) - The Trinidad and Tobago-owned Caribbean Airlines, (CAL) has been fined US$100,000 for violating United States federal rules after it prevented passengers from disembarking from one of its planes delayed on the tarmac at the John F Kennedy International Airport last August. The Uni...
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Trinidadian named to UNESCO group

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Apr 5, CMC – Trinidadian author and educator, Dr Kris Rampersad is one of six international experts who will serve on the consultative body of the international Intern Governmental Committee on safeguarding intangible cultural heritage of the United Nations Education, ...
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Caribbean writers to meet in Guadeloupe

BASSE-TERRE, Guadeloupe, CMC – Writers from the English, French and Dutch speaking Caribbean meet here next week for the third International Congress of Caribbean Writers. The organisers said that the April 10-13 event will be held under the theme "Our Fight for Freedom, A Collective Epic". Th...
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AG: No rift with the US

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - A release from the White House in Washington and the US Department of State to the Government of T&T recognising the valuable assistance of the Government and the Attorney General in effecting the extradition of Doreen Alexander has laid to rest speculation there is som...
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UNCLE SAM STILL SILENT

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Uncle Sam is still silent. Attorney General Anand Ramlogan admitted yesterday that the United States Government had not yet responded to this Government’s request for information on reports of a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) probe in which Daryan Warner, son o...
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US to review solitary confinement for Caribbean detainees

WASHINGTON, CMC –The United States says it will review cases in which Caribbean and other detainees are being held in solitary confinement in detention centers and jails around the country. Homeland Security Department Secretary Janet Napolitano has asked US federal immigration officials to pr...
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Politicians are not economic managers

KINGSTON, Jamaica - When we consider the state of many of the economics in the Eurozone and especially the recent near meltdown in Cyprus at the end of last month, many do contend that politicians are not at all economic managers. Some would insist that politicians - in Europe, the Caribbean and par...
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Vere Bird Jr to receive official funeral

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Cabinet has decided to accord former member of parliament and attorney Vere Bird Jr an official funeral. The information regarding the decision was conveyed to the media via press statement last evening. Bird Jr, son of the nation’s founding father Sir Vere C...
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