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Four killed as US contracted counter-drug aircraft crashes in Caribbean
MIAMI, CMC – The United States Southern Command, which overseas US military operations in the Caribbean and Latin America, says a US-contracted detection and monitoring aircraft has crashed into the Caribbean Sea, killing four of its six crewmembers. The Southern Command, otherwise known as Southcom, said that the crash took place near the Colombia-Panama border, killing three Americans and a…
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Opposition Leader to appeal ruling against him
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Opposition Leader, Arnhim Eustace, says he will contest the ruling of the Labour Department ordering him to pay his former secretary, Rishatha Nicholls, EC$16,199.99 (One EC dollar – US$0.37 cents) in severance pay by October 18. “We will appeal that process. We will go through that whole process,” he told the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC).…
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IMF predicts modest growth in 2013
WASHINGTON, CMC – After registering “disappointing growth” in 2012, Trinidad and Tobago is poised for a modest recovery in 2013, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said. In a statement, the Washington said the economy is reviving and that maintenance-related outages would continue to hamper the energy sector. It said the non-energy sector should grow around 2.5 per cent and…
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Remittances almost triple development aid
KINGSTON, Jamaica – TORONTO, Canada (IDN) — A new report has highlighted the importance of funds remitted home by migrants, which are now nearly three times the size of official development assistance given by rich developed nations and larger than private debt and portfolio equity flows to developing countries. They exceed the foreign exchange reserves in at least 15 developing…
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This shameful scenario affecting the Haitian people
KINGSTON, Jamaica – BURDENED as they may be with their respective domestic, social, economic and political challenges, it is becoming increasingly evident that the 15-member Caribbean Community (Caricom) has a moral obligation to ensure more focused attention by the international community on the widening problems and challenges facing the people of Haiti. The mind-blowing earthquake tragedy of January 2010 that…
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The Dominican Republic and Haiti: one island riven by an unresolved past
When Haiti was hit by the devastating earthquake in 2010, its island neighbour, the Dominican Republic, rushed to help. It was among the first to send rescue workers, food and water, and also allowed overseas relief agency flights to land at Santo Domingo airport. But three years on, the goodwill seems to have dissipated and old tensions resurfaced. Just over…
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T&T PM must lead Caricom in settling Haiti-DR dispute
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – From her busy schedule of travel and other obligations, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar must make time for an ugly crisis engulfing two member states of Cariforum, which shares membership with Caricom, of which she also serves as chairman. The crisis has been triggered by a Dominican Republic constitutional court ruling that threatens a devastatingly disparate…
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