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ST. LUCIA-POLITICS-Minority opposition party supports ALBA in principle
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – The small opposition Lucian People’s Movement (LPM) Wednesday said that it supports the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) in principle but, cautions the St. Lucia government about a long-term dependence on the organization. “While the government of St Lucia should have engaged in greater consultation with the people of St Lucia before joining ALBA,…
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JAMAICA-MEDIA-IPI said TVJ chairman engaged in censorship
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) said that the chairman of the board of Television Jamaica Ltd. (TVJ) Milton Samuda, had engaged in censorship when he restricted the questions to be asked of two Olympians last month. In a letter to the Chairman of the RJR Communications Group, Lester Spaulding, IPI executive director, Alison Bethel McKenzie…
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GRENADA-TRADE-Grenada seeking to protect nutmeg and other brands
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – The Grenada government says it intends to use the system of geographical indications together with other intellectual property tools to protect its nutmeg and other spices as it brands the commodities. Tourism Minister Alexandria Otway Noel addressing a Sub regional training workshop on Geographical Indications and Branding, said while the concept is not new, countries…
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BAHAMAS-MIGRATION-Government mum on allegations of abuse at detention centre
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas government says it will make no comment regarding allegations of abuse at the Carmichael Road Detention Centre until the official investigation is completed. But Foreign Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell has criticised the main opposition Free National Movement (FMN) over comments that Cuban detainees at the facility had been beaten during an escape bid in…
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CARIBBEAN-FASHION-Regional fashion designers urged to apply for funding to participate in Dominicana
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) is urging regional fashion designers to participate in the Dominicana Moda to be held in the Dominica Republic in October. Caribbean Export said under the 10th European Development Fund (EDF), it would be collaborating with the organisers of the October 21-16 Dominicana Moda 2013 (DM2013) in supporting fashion…
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Committed to Haiti
UNITED NATIONS, CMC – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Wednesday said it remained committed called to working with the international community in the development of Haiti, still recovering from a 2010 earthquake that killed an estimated 300,000 people and left more than a million others homeless. Trinidad and Tobago’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Rodney Charles, told the United Nations Security…
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Remarks by Ambassador Colin Granderson, Assistant Secretary General Foreign and Community Relations, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat at the closing ceremony CARIFESTA X1 25 August 2013, Paramaribo, Suriname
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) It is a great pleasure and privilege for me to be here with all of you at the Closing Ceremony of the Eleventh Caribbean Festival of Arts and to deliver these brief remarks on behalf of the Secretary General of the Caribbean Community, H.E Mr. Irwin LaRocque. This has been a very vibrant and…
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CARIFORUM DG to Visit Grenada
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Director-General of the Caribbean Forum of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (CARIFORUM), Mr Percival Marie, is set to embark on his first official visit to Grenada since that country assumed the Chairmanship of CARIFORUM, with effect from 1 July 2013. The Chair of CARIFORUM plays a leadership role in relation to intra-CARIFORUM matters,…
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