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CARIFORUM-EU High level Meeting – Joint Press Release
(Santiago de Chile, January 26th 2013) Caribbean and EU leaders attending the first CELAC – EU Summit in Santiago de Chile held a CARIFORUM – EU High-Level Meeting on January 26th, 2013. Participating from the EU side were President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy and President of the European Commission José Manuel Durão Barroso. Participating from the Caribbean…
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SG seeks help for CARICOM Agriculture initiatives from FAO Head
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque and Director General of the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) Mr. José́ Graziano da Silva reviewed progress in the latter’s assistance to the Community in agriculture, specifically in the areas of food security and assistance with sanitary and phyto-sanitary measures, and food and…
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Venezuela’s Chavez Undergoes New Medical Treatment in Cuba
A Venezuelan government spokesman says President Hugo Chavez has begun a new round of medical treatment in Cuba, after battling complications from cancer surgery performed more than a month ago. Information Minister Ernesto Villegas, speaking Saturday, did not offer details of the newest treatment and did not provide new information on the cancer itself. But he said Mr. Chavez had…
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Global economic growth slowed in 2011 and 2012
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Global growth has slowed in the past two years and is forecast to remain sluggish in 2013. Some of the biggest risks facing the world economy—the breakup of the euro currency, huge tax increases and government spending cuts in the United States, and a sharp slowdown in China—were avoided last year. But two of the…
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Economist: Euro crisis could erupt again this year
DAVOS, Switzerland — Is the euro crisis over? A leading US economist says not by a long shot. Even as the head of the European Central Bank talked of “positive contagion” in the markets and predicted an economic recovery for the recession-hit eurozone later this year, economist Barry Eichengreen warned that the debt crisis that has shaken Europe to its…
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Caribbean should renew US anti-gun lobby
KINGSTON, Jamaica – All well-thinking Jamaicans should be paying close attention to the gun control debate in the United States. It’s been taking place for decades, experiencing highs and lows periodically. But the gun debate has taken on new wings since the mid-December massacre of 26 people, including 20 children, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. Immediately after that…
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Opposition Leader says no apology necessary
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC-St.Lucia's Opposition Leader Stephenson King has taken a tough stance in ongoing controversy with House Speaker Peter Foster by insisting that no leader of the opposition should ever have to apologise for doing his duty. King made his position clear in a letter to Foster's Attorney Michael Gordon, who had written to him demanding an apology “within…
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