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PM on Cabinet reshuffle: Lift-off time for PP Government
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Guardian – Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday promoted Gary Griffith, her former national security adviser, to the post of National Security Minister, “fired” two ministers and reshuffled and split the portfolios of several United National Congress (UNC) frontliners in her third Cabinet reshuffle. Griffith, who replaced Emmanuel George, former state board chairman Gerald Hadeed and one-time…
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Rowley in knocking large Cabinet says: Return to polls only solution Leader of the Opposition
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Guardian – – Dr Keith Rowley says yesterday’s Cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar was the clearest evidence of her People’s Partnership Government’s collapse in office, adding a return to the polls was the only option for T&T. “The Government has collapsed and the Prime Minister is totally out of her depth. The recent statement…
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EDITORIAL – Washington makes way for China
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Gleaner – AS THE Obama administration might have noticed, their man, Joe Biden, the vice-president, was not the star attraction in Port-of-Spain in late May when he visited for talks with Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders. That was reserved, a few days later, for Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader. Mr Xi played to his billing. He announced US$3 billion…
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Jamaica lobby at Warsaw climate talks critical – Mahlung
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Gleaner – JAMAICA MUST this year push for not only “adequate and predictable” financing, but also for further work on the international mechanism on loss and damage, to protect it and other vulnerable countries from slow-onset events such as ocean acidification. So said Clifford Mahlung, one of the island's seasoned climate negotiators and the Latin America and Caribbean…
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Micro-business sector best hope for immediate job growth – Kellier
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Gleaner – Labour Minister Derrick Kellier, on Wednesday, said that the Government was committed to providing the necessary funding support for the small- and micro-business sector. Kellier, who announced an increase in the amount of funds provided from the National Investment Fund (NIF), under its small- and medium-enterprise credit facility, said mega-investment projects are unlikely to reduce the…
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Private sector doubtful of IMF programme’s success
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Gleaner – Sections of the private sector remain sceptical about the chances of success of Jamaica's 48-month extended fund facility (EFF) with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), despite confirmation that policy implementation was strong in the first quarter of the programme. The Economic Programme Oversight Committee (EPOC), in a communiqué issued following a meeting on Wednesday, said that…
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Brazil cancels advance team trip for state visit to U.S.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil has canceled a trip by an advance team to Washington to prepare for a visit by President Dilma Rousseff that might be called off after revelations the United States spied on her private communications. Brazil’s presidential palace said yesterday it canceled a trip by an advance team of logistical planners, security personnel and protocol officers that…
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Kenya votes to quit global court, days before deputy president’s trial
AMSTERDAM/NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Kenya’s parliament voted yesterday to quit the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, but the Hague-based tribunal said it would press ahead anyway with the trials of the country’s president and his deputy. Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto are accused of orchestrating violence after elections in 2007. About 1,200 people were killed in ethnic blood-letting that plunged…
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World leaders pressure Obama over World leaders pressure Obama over Syria at G20 summit Syria at G20 summit
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama faced growing pressure from Russia’s Vladimir Putin and other world leaders yesterday to decide against launching military strikes in Syria, which many of them fear would hurt the global economy and push up oil prices. At a summit of the Group of 20 (G20) developed and developing economies in St. Petersburg,…
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