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Guyana could tap US$2.6M new FAO agri initiative
Georgetown, Guyana – The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) have launched a new joint project to help developing countries, particularly fragile states, manage public investments in small-scale agriculture more effectively. The UN food agencies will co-finance the US$2.6 million initiative focusing on countries where a lack of strong national governance means…
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Carib Lacks Agri Research
Georgetown, Guyana – The poor state of livestock and crop production in the Caribbean is due in large measure to the low priority given to agricultural research by regional governments, according to Dr Leslie Ramsammy, Guyana's minister of agriculture. During Friday's opening of the 2013 Caribbean Week of Agriculture, Ramsammy said that the plan to make the Caribbean hunger-free by…
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Suspend The CET, Says Clarke
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Businessman Claude Clarke, in defence of Jamaican manufacturing, said last Thursday that Jamaica should suspend the Common External Tariff, no matter the legal consequences. His appeal comes amid rumblings from critics of Caricom who want Jamaica to break away from the bloc, citing unfair competition especially from oil-economy Trinidad. “It is time for the Jamaican Government to…
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Jamaica subsidising Caricom by $15b a year?
KINGSTON, Jamaica – JAMAICA loses $15 billion in revenues from subsidising imports from the Caribbean Community (Caricom), according to former industry minister Claude Clarke. Clarke, who is managing director of Richmond Valley, made the declaration during his keynote address at the Jamaica Manufacturers Association (JMA) 45th Annual Awards Banquet on Thursday. He suggested that Government collect the revenue by suspending…
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CCJ’S HISTORIC RULING
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – IT WHAT could well be viewed as a pleasant coincidence, the Governments of Guyana and Barbados on Friday agreed on a joint declaration about a coming formal accord on improved immigration arrangements between the two CARICOM countries. This initiative, resulting from a meeting of the Guyana-Barbados Joint Commission, coincided with a landmark judgement the same day by…
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Making the Family Real
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The Caricom Secretary General came to town last week and managed to deliver a lecture distinguished mainly by its silence on two of the most explosive issues in the Caribbean. Within 24 hours of his lecture, one of them broke wide open. The Caribbean Court of Justice’s decision delivered last Friday in Port of Spain…
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Myrie ruling seen as boosting hassle-free travel in Caricom
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – A landmark decision by the top regional court in a case brought by Jamaican Shanique Myrie against the Barbadian Government is being seen as paving the way for freer movement in Caricom for Guyanese and other nationalities. On Friday, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) tossed aside a series of defences thrown up by Bridgetown and awarded…
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Welcome clarity from CCJ
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – As a committed proponent of regional integration we, too, welcome the ruling delivered on Friday by the Caribbean Court of Justice in the Shanique Myrie case. The ruling by Sir Dennis Byron and his panel effectively sends a message to all Immigration authorities throughout the Caricom region that the days of arbitrary denial of access…
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Ms Myrie has done the Caribbean a great service
KINGSTON, Jamaica – MS Shanique Myrie tells us she believes that, because she pressed her case against the Barbados authorities at the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), “things will be better for Jamaicans who travel to that country”. This newspaper thinks she has done much more. By her courage and determination Ms Myrie has made life much easier, we believe,…
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EDITORIAL – The Greater Import Of The Myrie Ruling
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Much has already been made of the award by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) of approximately J$4 million to Shanique Myrie, the Jamaican woman who, two and a half years ago, was deported from Barbados after being held overnight in a cell and allegedly subjected to a vaginal search. But the focus on the vindication of…
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