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  • July 11, 2013
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    Officials still assessing damage caused by tornado

    ST. JOHN'S, Antigua, CMC – Antigua and Barbuda authorities were on Wednesday assessing the damage caused by a tornado that touched down in the north-east of the island. Director of the National Office of Disaster Services, Philmore Mullin, said it is still too early to determine the cost of the damage caused by the weather system late Tuesday close to…

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  • July 11, 2013
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    Bahamas celebrating 40th anniversary of political independence

    NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas is celebrating 40 years of political independence from Britain on Wednesday with praises for the founding fathers of the country. The Bahamas has been staging a series of activities to mark the occasion and Governor General Sir Arthur Foulkes, speaking at the National Pride Day celebrations recalled when Britain’s Prince Charles handed over the…

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  • July 11, 2013
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    Call for T&T-Guyana joint ventures

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Joint-venture projects between Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana could be the foundation upon which a unified Caribbean is built, businessman Donald Baldeosingh said yesterday. Baldeosingh was one of the presenters at a forum hosted by the Trinidad and Tobago Chamber of Commerce in Westmoorings yesterday on investment opportunities between the two Caricom countries. “It is…

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  • July 11, 2013
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    JLP serious about suspending relations with CARICOM — Holness

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – OPPOSITION Leader Andrew Holness says that the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) believes that Jamaica should consider suspending its relationship with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) until it sorts out current issues with the regional body. “There could be a suspension until we get our house in order, so that we can participate on equal footing with everyone,” Holness…

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    CARICOM at 40: An alternative agenda

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – By the time this commentary is read, heads of government of the 15-nation Caribbean Community and Common Market (Caricom) will have celebrated the 40th anniversary of the inter-governmental organisation. There is cause for celebration, but there is also reason for lamentation. Heads of government will have rightly pointed to many areas of common services in…

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  • July 11, 2013
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    CARICOM is 40, But Who is Celebrating?

    The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is celebrating 40 years of existence. But who is really celebrating? Certainly not the masses of Caribbean peoples, plagued with high levels of unemployment, crime, debt and anxiety about the future. Officialdom is celebrating, the small band of government leaders, regional civil servants and technocrats who interact with the organization with some regularity. But should more…

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  • July 10, 2013
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    Multi-lateral review of human development progress unfolds in Georgetown

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     A multi-party assessment on the progress the Caribbean Region has made in reaching international benchmarks in population and human development, unfolded in Georgetown, Guyana, among the CARICOM Secretariat, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), European Union (EU), the Intra-ACP Migration Facility and the Government…

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  • July 10, 2013
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    crime impacs

    CARICOM Member States have taken the next step in enabling the newly-created Regional Integrated Ballistic Information Network (RIBIN) Board to begin its work by electing representatives to serve on the RIBIN Board pursuant to a decision of the 5th Meeting of the Council of Ministers Responsible for National Security and Law Enforcement (CONSLE). The Director of the Forensic Science Laboratory…

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  • July 10, 2013
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    PANCAP to host Bi-National Commission on health for Guyana & Suriname

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)    Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) in collaboration with the German International Cooperation (GIZ), EPOS Health Management and Ministry of Health Guyana will host a Bi-National Commission for Collaboration on Health for Guyana and Suriname from 11-13 July, 2013 in Georgetown, Guyana. The three day meeting to be held at the Guyana…

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  • July 10, 2013
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    Institutional Collaboration the Way Forward for EPA Implementation

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The out-going Director-General of the Caribbean Forum of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (CARIFORUM) Directorate in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, Mr Ivan Ogando Lora, has lauded the “spirit of cooperation” underpinning the development of National Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) Implementation Plans in the eight regional states that elected to pursue these Plans. Mr…

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