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  • May 10, 2013
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    The Next Pandemic: Not if, but When

    TERRIBLE new forms of infectious disease make headlines, but not at the start. Every pandemic begins small. Early indicators can be subtle and ambiguous. When the Next Big One arrives, spreading across oceans and continents like the sweep of nightfall, causing illness and fear, killing thousands or maybe millions of people, it will be signaled first by quiet, puzzling reports…

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  • May 10, 2013
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    EDITORIAL: Need to reflect on our history

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – One of the inescapable incidents of man’s inhumanity to man is the need for reflection on events which some of us would rather forget. Slavery, in our case, and the Holocaust, in the case of the Jews, are two examples of such atrocities, but modern-day ethnic cleansing and the whole colonial experience also come to mind. Two…

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  • May 10, 2013
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    Bomb squad called to CAL’s Miami gate

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – A Miami-Dade police department bomb squad was called out to check a suspicious package yesterday afternoon outside the gate of a Caribbean Airlines (CAL) flight at Miami International Airport. Miami Airport and US aviation authorities grounded and searched CAL flight 483 after a ticking noise was reportedly heard coming from luggage aboard the aircraft, CAL…

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  • May 10, 2013
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    Royalties dilemma

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The placement of Barbados on a United States watchlist of intellectual property rights violators is being seen as a double-edged sword. Barbados was put on the list this month, with the Office of the United States Trade Representative citing the “refusal” of local television and radio broadcasters to pay American entertainers for public performances of their music.…

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  • May 10, 2013
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    CAL offers luxury seating to public officials

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Accompanied by their spouses, political figures, a present and former state enterprise chairman, two directors and a television personality are among the passengers who were upgraded from economy to first class on directives from vice-chairman of Caribbean Airlines Ltd (CAL) Mohan Jaikaran. The names of dozens of officials, some travelling with their families, are listed…

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  • May 10, 2013
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    Haiti welcomes JetBlue

    PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Haiti is welcoming plans by the US-based carrier, JetBlue Airways to begin offering daily non-stop flights to the impoverished French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country. Haiti’s consul general in New York in a statement noted that JetBlue’s service will help the local economy and give Haitian-Americans more opportunities to visit their homeland. The airline says…

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  • May 10, 2013
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    Ex-Haitian leader criticizes gov’t over poverty

    PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide emerged from months of seclusion for a second straight day and took several swipes at the current government. Speaking to a small group of mostly Haitian reporters and The Associated Press at his home in the capital Thursday, Aristide covered topics ranging from his shock at seeing the devastation caused by the…

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  • May 10, 2013
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    Former Haitian President Aristide makes rare court appearance

    PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Former Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide on Wednesday held a three-hour, closed-door audience with a Haitian investigative judge, as part of the ongoing murder investigation into the unsolved assassination of agronomist-turned-journalist Jean Léopold Dominique. At the urging of Dominique’s widow, former radio journalist Michèle Montas, Judge Yvickel Dabresil has been trying to determine the “intellectual author”…

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  • May 10, 2013
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    Much more agriculture investment needed, says expert

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – IN the context of what he says is increasing unemployment and poverty in Barbados; high incidences of non-communicable diseases; the current contracting of the economy; and a decrease in tourism arrivals and spend, the all-encompassing aspects of agriculture must play a greater role in the economic and social empowerment policies of this island. This view came from…

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  • May 10, 2013
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    Dominica warns against threats to banana industry

    ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Dominica has launched a scathing attack on countries and companies seeking to destroy the local banana industry as the European Union launched an EC$54 million (One EC dollar = US$0.37 cents) banana support package to help the island adjust to the new trading arrangements for bananas. “They are the ones who challenge us at the WTO…

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