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  • June 3, 2013
    776

    Navigating the new dynamic

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – LAST week was a significant development in the relations between the United States and the small island nations of the Caribbean Community. Trinidad and Tobago hosted an official visit to the region by United States Vice President Joe Biden. Caribbean leaders, including our own Prime Minister, Freundel Stuart, held meetings with Mr. Biden and his delegation. It…

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  • June 3, 2013
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    Caribbean diplomat to lead UN mission in Haiti

    (Miami Herald) A career diplomat from Trinidad and Tobago with extensive experience on Haiti issues will soon head the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Caribbean nation.. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday announced that Sandra Honoré will serve as his next special representative and head of the mission known by its French acronym, MINUSTAH. She is expected to…

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  • June 3, 2013
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    CARICOM: Government’s lost opportunity

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – Almost five years ago, in an article titled 'Jamaica's costly affair with CARICOM', I called attention to the gross economic abuse Jamaica suffers in its association with CARICOM and suggested that we should withdraw from our trading relationship with the group. My hope was that with the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), a party that was at best…

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  • June 3, 2013
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    Kamla to visit China in November

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced yesterday that she will visit the People’s Republic of China in November on an invitation from Chinese President Xi Jinping. She will also establish a diplomatic mission in Beijing at that time. Speaking at the Diplomatic Centre, St Ann’s during a joint media conference, Persad-Bissessar also announced a number of…

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  • June 3, 2013
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    China’s leader wants higher level of cooperation with A&B

    ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for a higher level of bilateral-friendly co-operation between his country and Antigua & Barbuda. He made the appeal over the weekend, while meeting with Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer. A report on Chinese news site Xinhuanet.com indicated Spencer and the Chinese leader had talks on Saturday during President Xi’s three-day state…

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  • June 3, 2013
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    EDITORIAL – CARICOM must fix China policy

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – Should there have been need of further evidence that the Caribbean is important to China's global political and economic strategy, we need look no further than Trinidad & Tobago this weekend. Xi Jinping, China's new president, in one of only a handful of trips abroad since assuming the top job, is in Port-of-Spain for a summit with…

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  • June 3, 2013
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    China announces major concessionary funding facility for Caribbean

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – China Sunday announced a three billion US dollar concessionary facility for eight Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries as President Xi Jingping ended a three-day state visit to Trinidad and Tobago. The Chinese leader met with leaders of the CARICOM countries that have diplomatic relations with Beijing rather than Taiwan that China regards as a renegade…

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  • June 3, 2013
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    The good news about Barbados’ Owen Arthur

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – SCHOLARSHIP on the contemporary political history of the Caribbean can benefit from the autobiographies, memoirs, papers and correspondence of political leaders, especially prime ministers. This is a well-developed and invaluable tradition in England and the United States, motivated in the former by an overweening sense of the importance of their history and the latter by the possibility…

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  • May 31, 2013
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    Don’t hold your breath

    ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – The issue of reparations was once more in the news last week when Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves of St Vincent and the Grenadines gave a lecture on celebration of the 50th anniversary of the African Unity/African Union and the recognition of Africa Year. His talk at the multi-Purpose Centre in St John’s was on the topic…

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  • May 31, 2013
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    No politics in e-mail probe

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The man leading the probe into “emailgate” said yesterday there was no prejudice in the investigation and he will not let politics tarnish his work. Deputy Commissioner of Police Mervyn Richardson, in a brief telephone interview with the Express, said the police did not leak any information to the media, following an interview with Opposition…

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