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Opposition accuses police of colluding with ruling party; calls for fresh polls
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC – The leader of the main opposition People’s Action Movement (PAM) Tuesday accused the police of colluding with the ruling St. Kitts-Nevis labour Party (SKNLP) and called for fresh general elections in the twin island Federation. Last weekend, the police denied the PAM permission to stage a protest march in the capital on Wednesday and warned…
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Prime Minister Douglas dismisses opposition statements as “mere propaganda”
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Denzil Douglas Tuesday dismissed opposition claims that he was leading a minority government in St. Kitts-Nevis. Appearing on his weekly radio programme “Ask the Prime Minister”, Douglas told listeners that his St. Kitts-Nevis labour Party (SKNLP) administration holds a majority in the National Assembly. Six opposition legislators have already said they will…
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Beaches a major driver of the Turks and Caicos economy, but…
KINGSTON, Jamaica – PREMIER Rufus Ewing of the Turks and Caicos Islands yesterday responded to the Jamaica Observer’s June 21, 2013 editorial which criticised the British Overseas Territory for its treatment of Beaches resorts and Jamaicans generally. Ewing acknowledged the vast contribution of Beaches to the island’s economy but suggested the Government was batting for more jobs for locals. Following…
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T&T ‘hot seat’ for CARICOM
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – A WEEK from tomorrow Heads of Government of the 15-member Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) should be in Port of Spain for a three-day regular annual summit that officially gets underway on Thursday, July 4. The historical significance of this regular summit being hosted in Port of Spain to coincide with the 40th anniversary…
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CARICOM: Change is easy, but improvement is difficult
KINGSTON, Jamaica – THE current trade concerns, discussed by Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago, represent the growing pains within the regional trading environment after 40 years of endeavour and investment intended to arrive eventually at a viable common economic and cultural space. We will then be able to develop strategies to promote further regional advancement, while confronting the convolution born…
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Is CARICOM the bloc the builders rejected?
KINGSTON, Jamaica – THE global economy is traversed by a network of constantly shifting economic/trade blocs, of which the 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has been the second-longest running economic integration scheme, at 40 years old, counting from the 1973 Treaty of Chaguaramas. Only the European Union (EU) has been around longer, having begun as an integration project with six countries…
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Democracy and ‘the voice of the streets’
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The government of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has been mindful not to go down the same road as others – that of Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan being the most recent – that have opted for bullish, often brutal responses to popular protest. If she may have been less than tardy in addressing the protests that…
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