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Veteran lawyer against joining CCJ
CASTRIES, St. Lucia CMC – A member of the St. Lucia delegation that attended the constitutional talks leading to the island’s political independence from Britain more than three decades ago, says he is “dead against” breaking ties with the London-based Privy Council. Attorney Evans Calderon, one of two surviving delegates to the talks more than 34 years ago, told a…
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Pyongyang’s quixotic diplomacy
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The tension that has made the Korean peninsula a global flashpoint for much of 2013 appears to have subsided with the toning down of North Korea’s nuclear rhetoric directed at the South and the US and Pyongyang’s call last week for “senior level” nuclear talks with Washington. Still, the two states on the peninsula remain in a…
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Randle to get honorary doctorate from UWI
KINGSTON, Jamaica – BUSINESSMAN AND publisher Ian Randle is to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of the West Indies (UWI). He is to be conferred at the annual graduation exercise on the St Augustine campus of the university in Trinidad and Tobago in October of this year. A pioneer in the field of Caribbean publishing, Randle founded the…
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Parliament gives green light to dangerous dog bill
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Jun 18, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago parliament has approved legislation resulting in owners of dangerous dogs, such as pitbulls, facing a 10-year jail term and significant fine if the dog kills a person. Attorney General Anand Ramlogan, who piloted the Dog Control Bill, 2013 on Monday, said owners of these dangerous dogs would also…
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Ruling party calls for resignations, by-elections
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC – The ruling St. Kitts Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP) has called for the resignations of two former members from Parliament saying they have breached the contracts given to them by the people who voted them into office during the last general election here. “I think that as elected officials, they can just take a position and…
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Government claims video showing beating of Cubans in detention centre is false NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas government has described as “a complete falsehood and an outrageous concoction” a video showing Cuban detainees being beaten by officers at a Bahamian detention centre. Foreign Affairs and Immigration Minister Fred Mitchell said the government has since referred the matter to its lawyers. He said he had seen a copy of the video purporting…
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