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  • June 18, 2013
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    EPA and trade issues dominate ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly

    BRUSSELS, CMC – The Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the European Union and the African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of countries will be among matters discussed at the three-day ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA) that began here on Monday. Caribbean Forum (CARIFORUM) countries have signed the ACP accord with Europe in 2008, but at the ACP-EU Joint Council of…

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  • June 18, 2013
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    New Flag and anthem for ACP

    BRUSSELS, CMC – The 79-member African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) grouping has unveiled a new flag and anthem that the authorities say represent the solidarity and shared vision of its member states. It is the first time ever for the Group to feature such symbols of common identity since its foundation in 1975. “Our flag consists of three diagonal bands…

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  • June 18, 2013
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    Maintain EC currency, advises OECS official

    ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Despite recent suggestions from an international investment agency that Caribbean territories devalue the Eastern Caribbean currency, a top OECS official is advising otherwise. Senior Director at the OECS Secretariat Randy Cato said programmes and policies should be implemented to ensure the EC value is maintained as it is “very important for economic decision-making. “We need to…

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  • June 18, 2013
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    OECS observers 32nd anniversary on Tuesday

    CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) observes its 32nd anniversary on Tuesday with officials pointing to a number of achievements including the establishment of the Economic Union over the past three decades. OECS Chairman and Prime Minister of Antigua, Baldwin Spencer, will deliver an address to mark the occasion. OECS Director General Dr. Len…

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  • June 18, 2013
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    Our success story

    ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Today, the nine countries, comprising the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, will reflect on how far they have come since that red letter day of June 18, 1981, when the Treaty of Basseterre was signed, bringing the organisation into being. Many years later, on that same date in 2010, the revised treaty came into being with…

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  • June 17, 2013
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    EDITORIAL – Mr Obama should be careful in Syria

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – Barack Obama, the American president, is a history buff who likes to bone up on the policies and strategies of his predecessors. As he moves to concretise his decision to provide arms to Syrian rebels, Mr Obama should probably reflect on a country called Afghanistan, where he is now attempting to end a war involving the United…

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  • June 17, 2013
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    JLP wants named of former opposition legislator cleared

    KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) says it still wants the name and reputation of its former parliamentarian, Joseph Hibbert, cleared even though he died of a massive heart attack over the weekend. Hibbert, 65, an engineer, died at hospital. In 2009 he resigned as junior transport and works minister, less than a week after the British…

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  • June 17, 2013
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    ‘SENSITIVE’ MATERIAL

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has expressed concerns that handing over her electronic devices to the police investigators may jeopardise national security and has since directed that the investigation only take place in her presence. In a letter to lead investigator, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mervyn Richardson, dated June 10, Persad-Bissessar said in her capacity as…

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  • June 17, 2013
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    US expert says email fake, Opposition Leader reiterates call for independent probe

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A United states information technology expert says the emails purporting to show that members of the Trinidad and Tobago government, including Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar, were engaged in efforts to undermine the judiciary, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) and the media, are false. But Opposition Leader Dr. Keith Rowley,…

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  • June 17, 2013
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    Antigua-Venezuela Friendship Association launched

    ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Thirty years after establishing diplomatic relations, Antigua & Barbuda and Venezuela on Saturday took their already cordial affairs in a new direction. The two independent nations launched the Antigua-Venezuela Friendship Association – a level of co-operation that officials said would help cement the unbreakable bonds between the peoples of the two countries. Venezuelan ambassador to Antigua…

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