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JAMAICA-ECONOMY-Serious implications for Jamaica if US attacks Syria, says UWI Professor
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Professor of Social and Political Change at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Brian Meeks, has warned that if the United States takes military action against Syria, Jamaica’s fragile economy could be in serious trouble. On the weekend, Professor Meeks said a more dangerous Middle East is a more dangerous world and inevitably this…
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DOMINICA-POLITICS-Opposition party elects new leader, gears for general election
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – The main opposition United Workers Party (UWP) gearing for a general election that Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has hinted could come before the constitutional deadline, has elected talk show host Lennox Linton as its new leader. Former Prime Minister Edison James said that the party had already selected a significant number of its candidates for the…
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BAHAMAS-MIGRATION-Government pleased with talks in United States on illegal migration
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – Foreign Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell has returned here following a one week visit to the United States saying he was pleased “with the progress” being made regarding the illegal migration of Cubans into the Bahamas. Prior to his departure for Washington last week, Mitchell had indicated that “a negotiating team would travel to Cuba “with a…
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TRINIDAD-POLITICS-Local Government election to be held October
21 PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Thursday announced that Local Government elections will be held on October 21, but outlined her government’s intention to amend the Municipal Corporations Act. Persad-Bissessar made the announcement at a Post-Cabinet News Conference at the Office of the Prime Minister. The life of local government bodies in Trinidad and…
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TRINIDAD-POLITICS-Opposition condemns manner in which proportional representation introduced
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The main opposition People’s National Movement (PNM) has described as “vulgar” the decision of the government to amend the Municipal Corporations Act to introduce the concept of proportional representation in Trinidad and Tobago. Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar, announcing the October 21 date for the Local Government election, said that her administration plans to…
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TRINIDAD-POLITICS-Chief Justice gets top national award
SCARBOROUGH, Tobago, CMC – President Anthony Carmona has bestowed Trinidad and Tobago’s highest national award on Chief Justice Ivor Archie as the country prepares to celebrate its 51st anniversary of political independence from Britain on Saturday. Justice Archie was awarded the “Oder of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago” at a ceremony here in the presence of his parents, his…
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TRINIDAD-CRIME-Two arrested for murder of schoolboy
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The police have arrested two men in connection with Wednesday’s murder of a 16 year old on his first day at a new school. Kazim Maxine was killed as he waked out of the Laventille Technology and Continuing Education Centre. The police report that shortly after 2 pm Kazim and a fired were leaving…
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