Month: July 2013

  • July 22, 2013
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    Guyana to host Caribbean Agriculture Week

    GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The planning for Caribbean Agriculture Week (CAW) 2013, the 12th edition of the Region’s premier agricultural event, will be hosted by the Government of Guyana, October 4-12, under the theme `Linking the Caribbean for Regional Food and Nutrition Security and Rural Development’.Preparations are moving apace for the event to be held at the Guyana International Conference Centre.…

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  • July 22, 2013
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    The University of the West Indies: Performing against the odds

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – A few days ago the BBC Television World Service interviewed one of the wealthiest people in China. She will be 48 years old next month and her assets are worth US$3.6 billion. Zhang Xin was born into abject poverty, began working in a sweat-shop, lived in a single room with her mother in Hong Kong, saved from…

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  • July 22, 2013
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    Seeking solutions

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – CARIBBEAN Heads of Government held their 34th annual summit earlier this month in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Reports from the three-day meeting indicated among other things that all the speakers at the opening ceremony paid tribute to the Community on its 40th anniversary and cited its accomplishments while agreeing that more needed to be done. That, according…

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  • July 22, 2013
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    STATEMENT BY AMBASSADOR IRWIN LAROCQUE,  SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY OPENING OF THE SEVENTH GENERAL MEETING OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), ITS ASSOCIATED INSTITUTIONS AND THE UNITED NATIONS (UN) SYSTEM HEADQUARTERS OF THE UNITED NATIONS NEW YORK, JULY 2013

    Introduction Let me begin my expressing appreciation for the warm words of welcome extended to me and my delegation this morning.  Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, with the current global events, all of which demand your attention, it is heartening that our Caribbean Community’s biennial encounter is of sufficient importance to ensure your presence.   CARICOM places much importance on these…

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  • July 22, 2013
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    Warner resigns

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar last night announced she had “accepted the offer of resignation” of embattled Minister of National Security Jack Warner. Persad-Bissessar named Emmanuel George as the new National Security Minister. George’s Works and Infrastructure portfolio was assigned to Suruj Rambachan, in addition to his (Rambachan’s) duties as Minister of Local Government.

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  • July 19, 2013
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    Find New Solutions… PANCAP Chair Tells Executive Board

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     “There are still critical gaps to be filled, including more focused and concerted action to deal with the difficult issue of stigma and discrimination and human rights” said Jamaica Health Minister and Chair of PANCAP’s Executive Board, Honourable Dr.  Fenton Ferguson in his opening remarks to the Twentieth Meeting of the Executive Board in…

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  • July 19, 2013
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    Being Mandela

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – That there was violence and protest in the four years between Mr Mandela’s release and the general elections in 1994 is a matter of record, but measured against the tensions between the polarised races, it’s clear that Mr Mandela’s calming influence was a significant factor in the successful transition from apartheid to true democracy. Yesterday,…

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  • July 19, 2013
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    Caribbean Lizards Suggest Evolution More Predictable Than Thought

    This question has long puzzled thinkers like legendary evolutionary scientist Stephen Jay Gould, who proposed that evolution was “utterly unpredictable and quite unrepeatable.” But a new study of Caribbean lizards published today (July 18) in the journal Science suggests that, at least in some circumstances, evolution may be more predictable than previously thought. It is, as you might imagine, difficult…

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  • July 19, 2013
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    Costa Rica seized over 4 tons of cocaine in Caribbean Sea

    SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, CMC – Costa Rica’s Minister of Public Safety, Francisco Zamora, says law enforcement officials have seized 4.6 tons of cocaine and 1.47 tons of marijuana in the Caribbean Sea so far this year. Zamora told reporters here that between January and July, the Coast Guard intercepted 11 boats in the “Caribbean zone” and arrested 12 suspects…

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  • July 19, 2013
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    Jack asked to return diplomatic passport

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Government has asked former cabinet minister Jack Warner to return his diplomatic passport. The Express was told by a high-ranking Government official that the United States authorities have been pressuring the Government to withdraw Warner’s diplomatic passport which in effect would remove his diplomatic immunity. Warner has indicated that he will return his diplomatic passport…

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