Accredited Third States

  • September 6, 2013
    607

    CARICOM and Cuba look to active role in post 2015 Agenda talks at the UN

    CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The Caribbean should take an active role at the upcoming United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) debate on the post 2015 Agenda. This was the view expressed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guyana the Honourable Caroline Rodrigues-Birkett as she addressed the Opening Ceremony in Grenada of the Fourth Meeting of Foreign Ministers of…

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  • September 6, 2013
    705

    REMARKS DELIVERED BY THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF GUYANA AND CHAIR OF THE BUREAU OF THE COUNCIL FOR FOREIGN AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS,  HONOURABLE CAROLYN RODRIGUES-BIRKETT AT THE   OPENING CEREMONY OF THE FOURTH MEETING OF MINISTERS OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF CARICOM AND CUBA,  5 SEPTEMBER 2013, GRENADA

    I wish to thank the Government and People of Grenada for their warm hospitality and join my colleagues in echoing appreciation for being in Grenada today among great company.  As we gather on the eve of the Fourth CARICOM-Cuba Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs, there are several events that are occurring at the national, regional, hemispheric, and global levels…

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  • September 5, 2013
    558

    CARICOM and Cuba Foreign Ministers get together in Grenada

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuba will hold discussions on advancing cooperation on developmental issues between the two sides on Friday 6 September in Grenada. A special retreat of CARICOM’s Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR), preceded Friday’s meeting. CARICOM-Cuba Cooperation, which dates back to 1972, has seen…

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  • September 4, 2013
    854

    US$10,000 seed capital for Caribbean mobile app developers

    developers PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Guardian – Mobile app developers from Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica can win US$10,000 in seed capital through an initiative of the World Bank's infoDev programme. Mobile app entrepreneurs from the two countries are invited to join their counterparts from Africa, Central Asia, Eastern Europe to participate in the new initiative to take their apps…

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  • September 3, 2013
    968

    Lesson for our legislators in that UK vote on Syria

    KINGSTON, Jamaica, Observer – BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron is fighting for his political life and the legitimacy of his Tory party after Conservative members crossed the dreaded political divide and joined with the Opposition Labour party in voting no to Cameron's plan of participating with the United States in a military strike on Syria. The planned military action is…

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  • September 3, 2013
    890

    As Obama pushes to punish Syria, lawmakers fear deep US involvement

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s efforts to persuade the US Congress to back his plan to attack Syria met with skepticism yesterday from lawmakers in his own Democratic Party who expressed concern the United States would be dragged into a new Middle East conflict. “There is a lot of skepticism,” said Representative Jim Moran after taking part in a…

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  • September 3, 2013
    1,002

    Brazil, Mexico ask US to explain if NSA spied on presidents

    BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil assailed the United States yesterday after new allegations that Washington spied on President Dilma Rousseff, complaining that its sovereignty may have been violated and suggesting that it could call off Rousseff’s planned state visit to the White House next month. A Brazilian news programme reported on Sunday that the US National Security Agency spied on emails,…

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  • September 2, 2013
    983

    Study finds poverty reduces brain power

    LONDON, (Reuters) – Poverty and the all-consuming fretting that comes with it require so much mental energy that the poor have little brain power left to devote to other areas of life, according to the findings of an international study published on Thursday. The mental strain could be costing poor people up to 13 IQ (intelligence quotient) points and means…

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  • September 2, 2013
    1,014

    South Africa’s Mandela back home after long hospital stay

    JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Anti-apartheid leader and former South African President Nelson Mandela returned to his home yesterday where he will continue to receive intensive care after three months in hospital with a lung ailment. Mandela, 95, had spent 87 days in a Pretoria hospital after he was rushed there in early June suffering from a recurring infection of the lungs,…

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  • September 2, 2013
    873

    Scornful Syria hails “historic American retreat” as Obama hesitates

    BEIRUT/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Syria hailed a “historic American retreat” yesterday, mockingly accusing President Barack Obama of hesitation and confusion after he delayed a military response to last month’s chemical weapons attack near Damascus until after a congressional vote. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said tests had shown sarin nerve gas was fired on rebel-held areas on Aug. 21, and…

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