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  • June 3, 2013
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    Kamla to visit China in November

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced yesterday that she will visit the People’s Republic of China in November on an invitation from Chinese President Xi Jinping. She will also establish a diplomatic mission in Beijing at that time. Speaking at the Diplomatic Centre, St Ann’s during a joint media conference, Persad-Bissessar also announced a number of…

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  • June 3, 2013
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    China, Venezuela winning the PR war

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – RECENTLY, United States President Barack Obama visited Mexico and Costa Rica. His last visit to the Caribbean was in April 2009 when he attended the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad. Hilary Clinton, while she was secretary of state, met the leaders of the Caribbean in Montego Bay. This past week, Chinese President XI Jingping met with…

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  • June 3, 2013
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    Chinese president pledges closer cooperation with Suriname, Barbados

    Visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged in Port of Spain Sunday to work with Suriname and Barbados to expand his country's cooperation with the two Caribbean nations. Xi, in a state visit to Trinidad and Tobago, made the remarks during separate meetings with Surinamese President Desi Bouterse and Barbadian Prime Minister Freundel Stuart. In talks with Bouterse, Xi said Suriname…

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  • June 3, 2013
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    China’s leader wants higher level of cooperation with A&B

    ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for a higher level of bilateral-friendly co-operation between his country and Antigua & Barbuda. He made the appeal over the weekend, while meeting with Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer. A report on Chinese news site Xinhuanet.com indicated Spencer and the Chinese leader had talks on Saturday during President Xi’s three-day state…

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  • June 3, 2013
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    EDITORIAL – CARICOM must fix China policy

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – Should there have been need of further evidence that the Caribbean is important to China's global political and economic strategy, we need look no further than Trinidad & Tobago this weekend. Xi Jinping, China's new president, in one of only a handful of trips abroad since assuming the top job, is in Port-of-Spain for a summit with…

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  • June 3, 2013
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    China announces major concessionary funding facility for Caribbean

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – China Sunday announced a three billion US dollar concessionary facility for eight Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries as President Xi Jingping ended a three-day state visit to Trinidad and Tobago. The Chinese leader met with leaders of the CARICOM countries that have diplomatic relations with Beijing rather than Taiwan that China regards as a renegade…

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  • June 3, 2013
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    Presidential Proclamation: National Caribbean-American Heritage Month, 2013

    NATIONAL CARIBBEAN AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH, 2013 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAA PROCLAMATIONFor centuries, the United States and nations in the Caribbean have grown alongside each other as partners in progress. Separated by sea but united by a yearning for independence, our countries won the right to chart their owndestinies after generations of colonial rule. Time and…

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  • June 3, 2013
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    The good news about Barbados’ Owen Arthur

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – SCHOLARSHIP on the contemporary political history of the Caribbean can benefit from the autobiographies, memoirs, papers and correspondence of political leaders, especially prime ministers. This is a well-developed and invaluable tradition in England and the United States, motivated in the former by an overweening sense of the importance of their history and the latter by the possibility…

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  • June 2, 2013
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    THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY : PREPARING FOR AND ADJUSTING TO THE NEW RULES OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRADING SYSTEM : ADDRESS BY DR. CARLA BARNETT, DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), AT MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY

    It is a pleasure for me to be here at MSU, It is my first visit to Lansing and this University and I want to thank the Caribbean Students Association for the invitation, for working so hard to ensure smooth arrangements for this visit and for making me feel so welcome here. I want to express appreciation as well to…

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  • May 31, 2013
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    EASTERN CARIBBEAN COURT OPINION ON CCJ FOR SAINT LUCIA

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque has welcomed the judgement of the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal in respect of the process to be followed by Saint Lucia to provide for the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as that country’s final court of appeal. Chief Justice Janice Pereira delivered judgment…

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