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  • June 11, 2013
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    Sino-Caribbean relations: Priorities and tradeoffs

    GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The visit to the Caribbean earlier this month by Chinese Leader Xi Jinping and the simultaneous announcement that the region would be the beneficiary of yet another huge tranche of financial aid from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) lends a predictable continuity to Beijing’s pursuit of the use of economic diplomacy as a tool with which…

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  • June 11, 2013
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    UN condemns forced eviction of families

    PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – A senior United Nations official has expressed concern about ongoing illegal forced evictions and human rights abuses of families displaced by the 2010 earthquake. The Office of the Humanitarian Coordinator for Haiti said that earlier this month, the United Nations was informed that 120 to 150 families displaced by the earthquake and residing in…

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  • June 11, 2013
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    Not up to mark!

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – A row may be brewing between Barbados and the Caribbean’s executive director at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). And the quarrel revolves around the “management of the Caribbean constituency office”, which represents the interest of The Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica at the IDB. The office is headed by an executive director and an…

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  • June 11, 2013
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    Countries slow to ratify Cariforum/EU EPA

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Political will is needed for all the countries in Cariforum and the European Community to ratify the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), British High Commissioner to T&T Arthur Snell said yesterday. He admitted that implementation of the agreement has “not been as speedy as we would have wished.” Snell, who spoke with reporters during the lunch…

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  • June 11, 2013
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    ACP countries pleased with dialogue with European Union

    BRUSSELS, CMC – African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries say they are pleased with the outcome of deliberations with the European Union (EU) on a number of issues including the European Development Fund (EDF) and the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). ACP ministers met with the EU partners at the joint Council of Ministers level here last week and according to…

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  • June 11, 2013
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    JMA to AJ Nicholson: ‘Step aside, minister’

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – THE Jamaica Manufacturers' Association (JMA) yesterday told Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister AJ Nicholson to step aside or start singing a different tune on the trade dispute between Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. In a strongly worded reaction to Nicholson's outburst in the Senate on Friday against their criticism of Trinidad and Tobago's trade practices, the…

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  • June 11, 2013
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    The ongoing trade deficit problem for T&T and Jamaica

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – THE RECURRING challenges of a widening trade deficit for Jamaica with Trinidad and Tobago featured again in the Jamaican senate last Friday but climaxed with an understanding to pursue a non-confrontational strategy for reversal of this lingering negative trend. For all their often feisty political quarrels, both government and opposition senators joined forces to echo dissatisfaction over…

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  • June 11, 2013
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    Caribbean Regional Aid for Trade Strategy launches in Haiti –

    Turning market access into market presence What is Aid for Trade? Aid for Trade is a sub-set of official development assistance. In the broadest sense it refers to the flow of development finance/aid from developed countries and multilateral funding agencies to developing countries to enhance their participation in the multilateral trading system. Why the need for a Strategy? The Caribbean…

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  • June 10, 2013
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    Guest Opinion: Time to end Syrian conflict

    ST. JOHN’S, Antigua –  In recent weeks, sharply contrasting views on how the United States should respond to the madness in Syria have emerged from two of America’s most prominent voices. Republican Senator John McCain is convinced that US intervention is the only solution to the deadly conflict, while Mr Zbigniew Brzezinski, who served as national security advisor from 1977…

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  • June 10, 2013
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    Top US officials call for closure of detention center in Cuba

    WASHINGTON, CMC – After visiting the controversial Guantánamo detention center in Cuba, a top United States official and two legislators have called for its immediate closure. “We continue to believe that it is in our national interest to end detention at Guantánamo, with a safe and orderly transition of the detainees to other locations,” said US President Barack Obama’s chief…

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