Month: July 2013
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Government not pleased with online petition
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – A campaign by local human rights watchdog, Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ), highlighting the plight of children, has not gone down well with the Minister of Youth , Lisa Hanna who has described an online petition by the JFJ as “disingenuous, dishonest, and dangerous”. According to Hanna, the petition – “Stop the abuse of Jamaica's children by…
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Health Minister defends smoking ban in public places
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica government says while it remains open to facilitating dialogue and reasonable suggestions regarding the newly implemented smoking ban in public places, the policy was not taken in isolation. “When we look at emerging data, some, 50 per cent of persons who smoke die from some kind of tobacco-related illness. So my actions and that…
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Jamaica to host PANCAP meetings
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, (CMC) — The Regional Coordinating Mechanism for Global Fund Projects will meet in Jamaica today. The three-day gathering coincides with the 20th meeting of the executive board of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) taking place under the chairmanship of Jamaica's Health Minister Dr Fenton Ferguson. The executive board has responsibility for providing policy guidance…
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Venezuela President Maduro talked energy, transport while in T&T
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro’s trip to T&T two weeks ago followed the visits of Chinese President Xi Jinping and US Vice President Joe Biden to T&T in May. Energy, transportation, security and building bridges with South America’s Mercosur trade bloc were some of the main issues on the agenda when Maduro visited T&T on the…
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CARIFESTA Organisers Expect 30 Countries to Participate
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Chairman of the Host Country Management Committee (HCMC), Mr. Ivan Graanoogst, has disclosed that 24 countries have so far confirmed their participation in the festival, but that this number is expected to rise to 30 countries by August 16th. Speaking at a weekly breakfast with the press recently held at the Headquarters of Carifesta…
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CARICOM YOUTH AMBASSADORS RETURN FROM INTERNATIONAL YOUTH FORUM SELIGER 2013 IN RUSSIA
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) CARICOM Youth Ambassadors Tamira Browne (St. Vincent and the Grenadines), Patrice Harris (St. Kitts and Nevis) and Jamonn Roberts (Barbados) returned from the International Youth Forum Seliger 2013 held in Russia from the 21st – 28th July, 2013. The Forum had representation from 130 countries and mobilised 3000 participants. During the Forum, the Ambassadors…
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CAL cuts Air Jamaica flights
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Cash-strapped Caribbean Airlines (CAL) has cut the number of flights of its Air Jamaica subsidiary by 50 per cent in a bid to stem multi-million-dollar losses at the national airline. CAL has reduced the flight frequencies of Air Jamaica’s core schedule services from Kingston and Montego Bay, Jamaica, to North American destinations including Toronto, Canada…
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