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  • July 30, 2013
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    Haitians cry for justice against the UN

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – LAST WEEK’S announced findings by a group of international scientists that the 2010 outbreak of a cholera epidemic in Haiti was caused by then United Nations peacekeeping troops would further fuel strident compensation demands by families of the more than 8000 dead. On March 19 last year, we had lamented the silence of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM),…

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  • July 30, 2013
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    Haiti eases ban on most products, surprises Dominicans

    Dajabón, Dominican Republic.- Haiti officials yesterday eased restrictions and allowed their compatriots to return with products bought in the market held Mondays and Fridays on the Dominican side of the border at Dajabón, despite the import ban in effect for some of them. The surprising flexibility shown by Haitian officials prompted the Dajabón Merchants Association to meet and agreed to…

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  • July 30, 2013
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    New day in politics

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – At the end, everybody “knew” how it would turn out. But hardly anyone had dared to assert with confidence the compelling likelihood of the result. Jack Warner, the challenger to the ruling order, yesterday won the Chaguanas West by-election that he had himself audaciously caused to happen. In 2010, Mr Warner had won the seat…

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  • July 30, 2013
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    Analysts: Kamla, UNC’s future in doubt

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The landslide victory of Jack Warner speaks to the demise of the UNC and could also signal a real possibility of the former national security minister becoming the country’s next prime minister, says former government minister Ralph Maraj. Maraj was among a television panel which also included journalist Sunity Maharaj, managing director of the Lloyd…

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  • July 30, 2013
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    COP- Jack’s victory a “dangerous development”

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – THE Congress of the People, which vigorously campaigned in support of the United National Congress' candidate for the Chaguanas West by-election, on Monday night issued a statement in response to the election victory of interim leader of the Independent Labour Party, Jack Warner.

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  • July 30, 2013
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    Kamla: I don’t believe we have lost

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The gloves are not yet off. Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said last night that the United National Congress’ (UNC’s) defeat in the Chaguanas West by-election was no loss and instructed her troops to get ready for the local government elections. In her concession speech at the UNC’s campaign office in Charlieville around 10 p.m. Persad-Bissessar…

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  • July 30, 2013
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    CARICOM to discuss new initiatives with international aid donors

    GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Representatives from international development partners (IDP0 meet here on Tuesday for the Third Forum on Donor Coordination involving the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). A CARICOM Secretariat statement said that the meeting presents the opportunity for engagement between the CARICOM Secretariat, Caribbean institutions and IDPs on issues pertaining to regional integration and development. “Specific issues slated for discussion…

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  • July 30, 2013
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    JACK ON FIRE

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – It’s a new day in the politics of the country. Jack Warner’s green machine trounced Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s UNC in its heartland of Chaguanas West yesterday, shattering all tribal expectations with an impressive victory. Warner garnered 69 per cent of the votes cast, Ameen 28 per cent and PNM two per cent. The people of Chaguanas…

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    CARICOM pleased with growth in intra-regional trade

    GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – There has been a “significant” increase intra regional trade in 2011, according to the Guyana-based Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. It said that intra-regional trade in CARICOM has been positive with significant growth in the early period of the integration movement “and with the share of intra-regional to total trade increasing, on average, in the face of…

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  • July 29, 2013
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    International media group urges Caribbean countries to repeal archaic criminal defamation laws

    VIENNA, CMC – The Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) Monday appealed to Caribbean governments to follow through on commitments to repel archaic criminal defamation laws int heir respective countries. Representatives from the IPI and the Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM), the region’s umbrella media organisation, visited five Caribbean countries in April. The three week visit to Antigua and Barbuda,…

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