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Trinidad to host Canada-CARICOM business meeting
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago will host a meeting of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Canadian public and private sector officials to share best practices, Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar has announced. Addressing a public meeting of her United National Congress (UNC) at Gasparillo, south of here on Monday night, Prime Minister Persad Bissessar, who last week…
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Ally of slain Curacao politician suspects ‘political motive’ in attack by 2 assailants
A close ally of a charismatic but divisive politician killed by two assailants in Curacao said Monday he believes the lawmaker was slain in some sort of politically motivated attack on the Dutch Caribbean island off the coast of Venezuela. Donald Balentina, president of the Curacao political party founded by slain politician Helmin Wiels, told The Associated Press that he…
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OAS Organizes Forum on Political Financing in the Caribbean
The Organization of American States (OAS) will organize, together with the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA), a Forum to Strengthen the Regulation of Political Parties and Political Financing in the Caribbean, May 8-9, in Bridgetown, Barbados. The event will bring together 42 participants, representing electoral management bodies as well as governing and opposition parties from 14…
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Netherlands PM denounces murder of Curacao politician
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, CMC – Prime Minister Mark Rutte Monday condemned the assassination of Helmin Wiels, the leader of the largest political party in Curacao's coalition government who was shot dead late Sunday in the Punda section of the Dutch island's capital. Rutte spokesman Henk Brons said it is not yet clear whether the Netherlands will assist the police investigation, and…
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Curacao party leader assassinated in drive-by shooting
WILLEMSTAD, Curacao – The leader of the largest political party in Curacao's coalition government was shot dead late Sunday in the Punda section of the Dutch island's capital, media reports here said. Helmin Wiels of the Pueblo Soberano Party (Sovereign People Party) was reportedly shot in a drive-by shooting around 5 pm (2200 GMT). With his death, the coalition government,…
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IMF predicts economic growth for the Caribbean
WASHINGTON, CMC – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says Caribbean countries will experience economic growth of just over one per cent this year, even as Latin America and the Caribbean will record half a percent economic growth in 2013. The IMF said that the growth will be supported by stronger external demand, favourable financing conditions and the effects of earlier…
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When the CARICOM Heads of Gov’t meet in July…
KINGSTON, Jamaica – After a mere 20 months in the job, Mr Irwin LaRocque, the Caricom secretary general, must feel a bit dispirited. For, based on the information provided by eminent Caribbean journalist Mr Rickey Singh, and published in this week's Sunday Observer, Caricom now faces the danger of disintegration, instead of deepened economic integration and functional co-operation. According to…
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