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  • March 8, 2013
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    Caribbean targets 47% renewables by 2027

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – CARIBBEAN Community (Caricom) energy ministers have approved an initial target of 47 per cent renewable energy contribution to total electricity generation in the region by 2027. The ministers approved the target last week in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, at the special meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on Energy. They also…

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    Jamaicans, Guyanese top list of CARICOM nationals denied entry to Barbados

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaican and Guyanese citizens account for the vast majority of CARICOM nationals who have been refused entry into Barbados over the last five years, according to statistics compiled by immigration officials there. However, the statistics, which are among the evidence tendered before the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in the Shanique Myrie case, have shown that the…

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    UN Arms Trade Treaty workshop underway in St. Vincent

    KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC -As the Fourth Regional Workshop on Negotiations for the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty opened on Wednesday, Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves used the case of a Vincentian woman paralysed by a bullet to highlight the impact of years of unregulated trade in weapons. “With that single bullet, this young lady went from being a star…

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    Great new challenge for the world’s women

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – THIS year’s International Women’s Day finds women enjoying more prosperity and privileges than at any other time in human history. Yet this is also the first time in history that there have been so few women in the world relative to men. In all Western nations, women are now more educated, earn higher incomes, and…

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    Changing attitudes towards women

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Today is International Women’s Day. Recognised every year on March 8, this occasion is one when several countries across the world hail women for their achievements in various areas in society while looking back at those challenges overcome, accomplishments made and future potential gains still to be had for females. Starting back in 1975 during International Women’s…

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    Womanism, not feminism

    ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – This year’s observance of International Women’s Day will be especially poignant for women across this country, coming as it does one week after the brutal slaying of a mother of five, while at work. Forefront in the minds of the women of this country must be that most basic of rights – the right to be…

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    Women prime ministers urge an end to violence against women

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Caribbean only two women heads of government Friday pledged to end violence and discrimination against women in their respective countries as they joined the global community in observing International Women’s Day. Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar and her Jamaican counterpart, Portia Simpson Miller said the theme to observe the occasion…

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  • March 7, 2013
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    Jamaica debt exchange affects Sagicor

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – The fallout from Jamaica’s recently approved debt exchange arrangement has hit at least one of Barbados’ biggest financial institutions. Sagicor Financial Corporation, which has hundreds of millions of dollars in investments in Jamaica, had some of its companies placed “under review with negative implications” for its financial strength rating by international insurance rating company A.M. Best Co.…

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    Jamaica’s cancer programme under review

    KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – A delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has arrived here to carry out a comprehensive evaluation of Jamaica’s cancer control capacity in the areas of cancer planning, cancer information, prevention, diagnosis and treatment, palliative care, and training. The delegation is expected to make recommendations to the authorities following its review. Health Minister Dr. Fenton…

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    Opposition leader files lawsuit against Prime Minister

    KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Opposition Leader Arnhim Eustace says his lawyers have written to Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves demanding an apology and compensation for statements he made about him on a recent radio programme. “I want to confirm that by letter dated Wednesday, February 27th, Dr. Gonsalves was informed by my lawyers of my intention to pursue legal…

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