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  • October 14, 2013
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    Gun trade

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The drugs-for-guns trade has reached Barbados and could be largely responsible for the increased presence and use of firearms here, say police sources. And intelligence gathered by the Regional Security Systems (RSS), the organization charged with the defence and security of the Eastern Caribbean region, seems to support this. DAILY NATION investigations have revealed that some of…

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  • October 14, 2013
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    ‘Jagdeo Initiative’ remains in place – Agriculture Ministers

    GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has not abandoned the Jagdeo Initiative on Agriculture, but has been disappointingly slow in its implementation, said regional Ministers of Agriculture on Friday. In 2003, the Jagdeo initiative, named for former President of Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo, identified and defined the key constraints facing agricultural development in the Caribbean . The initiative has…

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    Cassava industry to be revitalized

    revitalized BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – A revitalised cassava industry will generate benefits for human and animal nutrition, food security and the development of value added products. This is the assurance of Minister of Agriculture, Food, Fisheries and Water Resource Management Dr. David Estwick as he spoke on the expansion of this project. He outlined that since 2008, work has been ongoing…

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  • October 14, 2013
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    Dominica’s Agriculture Minister calls for modernization of the sector

    GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Dominica’s Minister of Agriculture, Matthew Walter has urged regional Governments to modernise agriculture within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). “We need to modernize agriculture. We need to do agriculture as a business and we need to understand that agriculture is a science,” he told a press briefing as Caribbean Week of Agriculture ended on Friday. “And we…

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  • October 14, 2013
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    Jamaica, CARICOM Must Deplore Dom Rep Prejudice

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – This is a submission from the Mona campus organisation, UWI Leads Social Justice and Change. We write in response to your article 'Patterson urges CARICOM to condemn Dom Rep's latest immigration law against Haitians' dated Thursday, October 10, 2013, where former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson expressed his displeasure and disgust at the displacement of thousands of Haitians…

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  • October 14, 2013
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    Myrie put off Barbados for good

    ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Although she waged a battle against the Barbadian government and won, Jamaican Shanique Myrie vows never to return to Barbados. The 25 year old said she is too scarred by the March 14, 2011, experience when she attempted to enter the Caricom country upon invitation of a friend for a two-week visit. “I wouldn’t go back,…

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  • October 14, 2013
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    Immigration officials review ‘Myrie decision’

    ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Immigration authorities will spend time over the next few weeks reviewing the historic ruling by Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) with a commitment to adding to legislation already being drafted on immigration reform if this is deemed necessary. Yesterday, Immigration, Labour and National Security Minister Dr Errol Cort told OBSERVER Radio’s Big Issues, “We had carried…

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  • October 14, 2013
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    Cort Cautions CARICOM

    CARICOM ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Minister of National Security Dr Errol Cort is looking beyond the immediate implications of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) case, which ruled in favour of Shanique Myrie, on immigration policy and practices to the modus operandi used by regional heads that may be legally binding on Caribbean Community (Caricom) member states. Speaking yesterday on…

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  • October 14, 2013
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    CCJ delivers for Caricom nationals

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – FOR years nationals of the 15-nation Caribbean Community (Caricom) have complained of the discrimination they've experienced at the border controls of each other's countries. This discrimination has ranged in many cases from extensive questioning before being allowed entry for a limited period, to arbitrary refusal of entry and immediate expulsion. This unpleasant treatment has galled Caricom nationals,…

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    The Myrie Case And Human Rights

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – Some of the facts established in the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) landmark original jurisdiction decision in the matter Shanique Myrie v Barbados make for uncomfortable reading. Ms Myrie was cursed at, had her phone searched, was held in an insanitary detention facility, then sent back on a flight to Jamaica. She was never given a chance…

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