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CARICOM’s ‘survival’ challenges
KINGSTON, Jamaica – THE first in a series of planned consultations, across this region, for the introduction of a Five-Year Strategic Plan for CARICOM had a low-profile start in Barbados last Wednesday. First official news on the beginning of the consultative process came from the Georgetown-based Community Secretariat and, at best, media coverage was quite patchy or, worse, absent. No…
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Is CARICOM A Necessity?
KINGSTON, Jamaica – The relationship of Jamaica with its Caribbean neighbours in a regional organisation was first publicly discussed at a conference in Montego Bay in 1947, called by the British secretary of state, Arthur Creech Jones, to discuss the question of regional political integration. From this opening discussion, 11 years later, the West Indies Federation was born, comprising 10…
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OPENING REMARKS BY DR. EDWARD GREENE, ASST. SECRETARY-GENERAL, HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), TO THE TENTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT (COHSOD) ON HEALTH, THE ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, 28 APRIL 2004, TOBAGO
It is my pleasure to welcome you all on behalf of the Directorate of Human and Social Development and indeed the entire CARICOM Secretariat. I wish in particular to thank you Minister and your staff at the Ministry of Health for making the arrangements for hosting this meeting. I also wish to express great pleasure that The Hon. Orville London…
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CPL a bright idea
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The Caribbean Premier League, which bowls off in Barbados on July 30, could bring many benefits to the sport and the region. For West Indies cricket, which has spent the better part of the last decade in the doldrums, there are great prospects for re-energising players and the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). The WICB…
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Latin America’s Pacific Alliance
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Even as Chinese President Xi Jinpeng was making his way around the region to promote more trade and cooperation between China and Latin America and the Caribbean, visiting Trinidad and Tobago (where he also held bilateral talks with those Caricom countries with which Beijing enjoys diplomatic relations), Costa Rica and Mexico, there was a buzz coming from…
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Britain’s expression of regret and the reparations debate
KINGSTON, Jamaica – England's expression yesterday of sincere regret and offer of compensation for the acts of torture that a British colonial government carried out against Kenyans fighting for liberation from colonial rule in the 1950s and 1960s, will, we expect, revive the reparations debate in the Caribbean. As reported on page 29 of today's Jamaica Observer, the simultaneous announcement…
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Jamaica to host World Blood Donor Day
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica has been selected by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to host the official ceremony for World Blood Donor Day (WBDD) for the Region of the Americas, on June 14. PAHO Director Dr. Carissa F. Etienne is expected to be the keynote speaker at the official World Blood Donor Day ceremony, held under the theme…
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UNICEF concerned about child killings
KINGSTON, Jamaica – THE United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has condemned what it describes as the “unrelenting violence” against the nation's children, saying that a total of 16 children were murdered over the first four months of this year. The UN body made particular reference to last week's spate of child killings, which included the beheading of four-year-old Natasha Brown.
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CPJ eyes nine Caribbean countries for export
KINGSTON, Jamaica – CARIBBEAN Producers of Jamaica (CPJ) has its eye on exporting to five Caribbean countries by year-end. It hopes to add another four countries the following year, by which time it expects to see its branded products on supermarket shelves overseas.
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‘Ja debt burden a threat to human development’
KINGSTON, Jamaica – WHILE JAMAICA continues to improve its Human Development Index (HDI) ranking, one United Nations representative has charged that the country's high debt burden, combined with low economic growth and high unemployment, continues to pose a threat to human development. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Assistant Secretary General Heraldo Muñoz, who was addressing the launch of the Human…
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