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INTERPOL launches new technology to detect fraudulent travel documents in the Caribbean
LYON, France, CMC – The international police organization (INTERPOL), says it has launched a new tool enabling Caribbean countries to exchange information on fraudulent identity and travel documents. Known as Dial-Doc (Digital INTERPOL Alert Library Document), INTERPOL said that the technology, launched in collaboration with the Group of Eight of the world’s most industrialized powers (G8), “makes it easy for…
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Haiti eases ban on most products, surprises Dominicans
Dajabón, Dominican Republic.- Haiti officials yesterday eased restrictions and allowed their compatriots to return with products bought in the market held Mondays and Fridays on the Dominican side of the border at Dajabón, despite the import ban in effect for some of them. The surprising flexibility shown by Haitian officials prompted the Dajabón Merchants Association to meet and agreed to…
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New day in politics
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – At the end, everybody “knew” how it would turn out. But hardly anyone had dared to assert with confidence the compelling likelihood of the result. Jack Warner, the challenger to the ruling order, yesterday won the Chaguanas West by-election that he had himself audaciously caused to happen. In 2010, Mr Warner had won the seat…
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Analysts: Kamla, UNC’s future in doubt
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The landslide victory of Jack Warner speaks to the demise of the UNC and could also signal a real possibility of the former national security minister becoming the country’s next prime minister, says former government minister Ralph Maraj. Maraj was among a television panel which also included journalist Sunity Maharaj, managing director of the Lloyd…
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COP- Jack’s victory a “dangerous development”
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – THE Congress of the People, which vigorously campaigned in support of the United National Congress' candidate for the Chaguanas West by-election, on Monday night issued a statement in response to the election victory of interim leader of the Independent Labour Party, Jack Warner.
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Kamla: I don’t believe we have lost
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The gloves are not yet off. Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said last night that the United National Congress’ (UNC’s) defeat in the Chaguanas West by-election was no loss and instructed her troops to get ready for the local government elections. In her concession speech at the UNC’s campaign office in Charlieville around 10 p.m. Persad-Bissessar…
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CARICOM to discuss new initiatives with international aid donors
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Representatives from international development partners (IDP0 meet here on Tuesday for the Third Forum on Donor Coordination involving the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). A CARICOM Secretariat statement said that the meeting presents the opportunity for engagement between the CARICOM Secretariat, Caribbean institutions and IDPs on issues pertaining to regional integration and development. “Specific issues slated for discussion…
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JACK ON FIRE
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – It’s a new day in the politics of the country. Jack Warner’s green machine trounced Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s UNC in its heartland of Chaguanas West yesterday, shattering all tribal expectations with an impressive victory. Warner garnered 69 per cent of the votes cast, Ameen 28 per cent and PNM two per cent. The people of Chaguanas…
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CARICOM pleased with growth in intra-regional trade
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – There has been a “significant” increase intra regional trade in 2011, according to the Guyana-based Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. It said that intra-regional trade in CARICOM has been positive with significant growth in the early period of the integration movement “and with the share of intra-regional to total trade increasing, on average, in the face of…
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