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  • October 8, 2013
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    Caribbean finance ministers among Commonwealth group meeting with international lending agencies

    WASHINGTON, CMC – St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr. Denzil Douglas is leading a high-level group of Commonwealth ministers that is ending a two-day visit to Washington on Tuesday after holding discussions with representatives of leading international financial institutions on the issue of debt and financing challenges for developing countries. The delegation also includes Jamaica’s Finance Minister Dr. Peter…

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  • October 8, 2013
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    EDITORIAL: Strengthening of Barbados/Guyana ‘friendship’ bond

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – It is of significance and relevance to note that even before last Friday’s historic decision by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in the case involving Barbados and the Jamaican Shanique Myrie was publicly made known, the foreign affairs ministers of this country and Guyana had already initiated a plan of action to improve freedom of movement…

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  • October 8, 2013
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    Professor Beckles: CCJ ruling ‘forward looking’

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The recent landmark judgment handed down by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in the case of Shanique Myrie versus The State of Barbados, which saw the Court ruling in Myrie’s favour, will have long-term significance in terms of how Caribbean people should be treated, as they move from one jurisdiction to another. This was the assessment…

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  • October 8, 2013
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    Myrie ruling ‘good for Caribbean’

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Caribbean Court of Justice’s (CCJ) decision in the high profile Shanique Myrie case has implications for the broader freedom of movement regime, says principal of the University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus, Sir Hilary Beckles. And according to the regional academic, it should encourage all Caribbean countries to make the CCJ their final appellate…

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  • October 7, 2013
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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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  • October 7, 2013
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    Cuba/Barbados mark anniversary of 1976 bombing of Cubana flight

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados and Cuba have paid homage to the victims of the 1976 bombing of a Cubana Airlines jet off the coast of Barbados that killed all 73 people on board, lamenting the fact that the masterminds of the attack were never convicted. Cuba’s Ambassador to Barbados, Mrs Lisette Perez Perez, told the wreath laying ceremony on…

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  • October 7, 2013
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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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  • October 7, 2013
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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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  • October 7, 2013
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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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  • October 7, 2013
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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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