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Remarks by Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, (CARICOM) At The Launch of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA)
Today’s historic launch of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) demonstrates clearly to this Region how the co-operative deployment of many skills to achieve one objective can be of collective benefit. We had long recognised the desirability of creating such an institution. The Declaration of Needham’s Point issued by Heads of Government at their Twenty-Eighth Regular Meeting held in Barbados…
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Remarks by Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) At the Opening Ceremony Of the EIGHTH ILO MEETING OF CARIBBEAN LABOUR MINISTERS
I wish at the very outset to express my sincere appreciation to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Government of Trinidad and Tobago for affording me the opportunity to bring these brief remarks to you at the Opening of this 8th Meeting of Caribbean Ministers of Labour. This meeting comes at a time in the development of our Region,…
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Genomes of cholera bacteria from Haiti confirm epidemic originated from single source
The strain of cholera that has sickened thousands in Haiti came from a single source and was not repeatedly introduced to the island over the past three years as some have thought, according to a new study published in mBio®, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology. The results of this latest study are consistent with earlier…
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Mission accomplished, says departing TCI governor
PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands — On balance, there have been good and bad hours, but more good hours than bad, says departing governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), Ric Todd, in assessing his almost two years in the British Overseas Territory. Todd is in the process of cleaning out his desk and tidying up outstanding matters in…
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Operations VP takes the helm at CAL
(Trinidad Guardian) – Vice President of Operations at Caribbean Airlines (CAL), Captain Jagmohan Singh, has been appointed to run the day-to-day operations of the airline following the sudden resignation of acting CEO Robert Corbie on Friday. In an interview, CAL communications manager Clint Williams said, “Captain Jagmohan Singh, the vice president of operations, is currently at the helm. “He was…
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T&T vessel shot at here after Captain refuses drug transport –report
(Trinidad Express) A Trinidad and Tobago cargo vessel was shot at on Friday night and forced to leave Guyana after the captain allegedly refused to transport drugs into this country, Coast Guard Lieutenant Commander Kirk Jean-Baptiste said yesterday. According to reports, the Adorra travelled to Guyana last month with a shipment of coconut water. The crew of the vessel stayed…
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Egypt’s military and the country’s ‘second revolution’
GEORGETOWM, Guyana, Stabroek News – The sense of incompleteness which, from the start, had appeared to characterize Egypt’s ‘first revolution’ – including the election of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Mursi to the presidency last year – now manifests itself in waves of civil insurrection. Mursi’s civilian presidency may have brought an end to more than sixty years of de facto…
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GUADELOUPE-CRIME-Police investigating mass killings in Guadeloupe
BASSE-TERRE, Guadeloupe, CMC – Police in this French-speaking Caribbean island are investigating a case in which a prominent rifle club champion went on a shooting spree over the weekend, killing six people including his wife and two children. Police said the incident occurred in the village of Tabanon in Petit Bourg on Saturday night. Media reports said that the man,…
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