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JAMAICA-DEATH- Dr. Olive Lewin – Jamaican musicologist is dead
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC- Dr. Olive Lewin the well known Jamaican musicologist, folklorist and founder of the Jamaican Folk Singers is dead. Lewin, 85, who died on Wednesday, dedicated her life to keeping the nation’s traditional songs alive by researching, collecting and recording anthologies for the benefit of future generations. In the 1980s Lewin also spearheaded the Jamaica Memory Bank Project,…
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ST. LUCIA-LABOUR-Strike costs Government over EC$3 million
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC- The three week old strike by Civil Servants has cost the country well over EC$3 million, according to Cabinet Secretary Darryl Montrope. The Government started to assess the financial cost of the work stoppage, when the strike came to a halt on Tuesday. According to Montrope, preliminary figures for the Customs Department alone indicate that the…
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DOMINICA-AID-Prime Minister praises ALBA and PetroCaribe
ROSEAU, Dominica, Apr 10, CMC – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has stoutly defended the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) and PetroCaribe saying they underscored a determination of a people to write their own script for their future socio-economic development. The two Venezuela initiatives had been at the forefront of efforts by the late President Hugo Chavez as he sought…
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St Kitts presents stimulus budget
BASSETERRE, St Kitts— Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas Tuesday presented an EC$528.1 million budget to Parliament outlining a reduction in corporate taxes as well as extending several incentive packages that his administration had earlier implemented in a bid to stimulate the economy of the twin-island federation. Prime Minister Douglas told Parliament, which had been boycotted by the six opposition legislators,…
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Korean manoeuvres in a new era
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Stabroek News – To many long-time observers, the current behaviour of the government of North Korea now led by Kim Jong-Un, is reminiscent of Winston Churchill’s 1939 comment on the Soviet Union under Stalin. He described it as “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” But at the same time, commentaries on the death this week…
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