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  • April 9, 2013
    768

    Civil servants vote to end strike

    CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Civil Servants were returning to their jobs on Tuesday after voting on Monday to end a near three week strike in support of demands for higher wages. Their decision to end the strike will also allow their union – the Civil Service Association (CSA) to return to the bargaining table with the government negotiating team…

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  • April 9, 2013
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    Follow-up is essential

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Technocrats can do a lot more to build confidence in the ability of state institutions to facilitate an enabling environment for business, to create a greener environment for generations to come and to position Barbados to take full advantage of its CARICOM membership. Recently, Minister of Industry, International Business, Commerce and Small Business Development, Donville Inniss, stated…

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  • April 9, 2013
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    Don’t believe their lies, Myrie’s attorney tells CCJ judges

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -The Government of Barbados has been accused of being involved in a “huge cover-up” after local authorities trampled on the rights of Jamaican woman Shanique Myrie. The claim was made yesterday before the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) by the lawyer representing Myrie in her discrimination case against Barbados. Attorney Michelle Brown, in her closing argument…

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  • April 9, 2013
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    Attorneys want substantial compensation for Jamaican national

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Lawyers for a Jamaican national who claimed that their client had been discriminated against because of her nationality when she travelled to Barbados on March 14, 2011 called for substantial compensation as the matter resumed at the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Monday. Attorney Michelle Brown told the six-member CCJ panel of judges…

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  • April 9, 2013
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    CARICOM losing faith in ‘good-neighbour’ Uncle Sam

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – On the Caricom front, Trinidad and Tobago has unexpectedly been drawn into a low-level confrontation against the United States, its own major trading partner. Two areas of conflict comprise online gambling (whereby players participate in virtual casinos online), as pursued by Antigua and Barbuda, and rum exports to the US, in which T&T shares concerns…

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  • April 9, 2013
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    Rebuilding Haiti: The dependency, the hurdles and the pitfalls

    GEORGETOWN, Guyana – During his visit here in March Haitian President and sitting Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Chairman Michel Martelly provided confirmation of what we already knew …that more than three years after a devastating earthquake that claimed thousands of lives and wreaked monumental physical damage, the country still faces a long and arduous journey on the road to recovery.  It…

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  • April 8, 2013
    869

    Expert warns of consequences of opening up of Cuba

    ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Jeffrey Robinson, considered the world’s leading financial crime author, is warning the nation and all Caribbean countries that a “financial tsunami” will hit the region in a few years and the time to plan a response is now. “In the next three to five years, Fidel Castro will die and when he does Raul (Castro) will…

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  • April 8, 2013
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    Lawrence Duprey: Looking for redemption

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Last month, veteran journalist Owen Baptiste, former editor in chief of both the T&T Guardian and the Trinidad Express, spent a week in Florida talking with Lawrence Duprey. This is the first of an exclusive five-part series by Baptiste, based on their long, frank discussions of Duprey’s past and his vision and hopes for the…

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  • April 8, 2013
    854

    Vere Bird Jnr’s legacy deemed tarnished

    ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Two well known individuals in the political sphere have declared that the controversial dealings involving the late Vere Bird Jnr – the elder brother for former Prime Minister Lester Bird – may have tarnished his political career somewhat. That was the sentiment echoed by Political Analyst Arvel Grant and Antigua Labour Party (ALP) Senator Lennox Weston…

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  • April 8, 2013
    955

    Reepu Daman Persaud dies

    GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Veteran politician and one of Guyana’s longest serving politicians, Reepu Daman Persaud died on Sunday, according to well-placed sources. He was 77. Hospital sources said he was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH)-based Caribbean Heart Institute (CHI) late Saturday night.

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