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JAMAICA-ECONOMY-Jamaica has passed the worst – Finance Minister
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Finance Minister, Dr. Peter Phillips says the period of difficulty for the country may be over as Jamaica has passed the worst as far as the effects of the structural adjustments are concerned. However, Phillips who was a guest on a television current affairs programme late Wednesday cautioned that the country is not yet out of…
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GUYANA-POLITICS-High level security sector delegation to meet in Suriname
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana and Suriname will begin high level security talks on Friday. The two-day meeting is being is being held under the Presidential Engagement Initiative, the brainchild of former Guyana president Bharrat Jagdeo and Surinamese Head of State, Desi Bouterse. The last meeting of this nature was held in 2011. The Guyana delegation, which includes the Guyana…
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GUYANA-EDUCATION- Students to be relocated following fire at school
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Students from the L’Aventure Secondary School in West Bank Demerara are being relocated following a fire on Wednesday morning. At least 700 students have been displaced as a result of the blaze that destroyed the Administrative and Home Economics as well as the auditorium.
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CARIBBEAN-DEVELOPMENT -Most Caribbean nationals with the exception of young men living longer WASHIN
WASHINGTON, CMC – A new World Bank report states that with the exception of young men, most people in the Caribbean and Latin America are living much longer than they did 40 years ago. The report, “The Global Burden of Disease: Generating Evidence, Guiding Policy,” released here on Wednesday by the World Bank and the Institute for Health Metrics and…
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CARIBBEAN-DRUGS – Five hundred kilogrammes of cocaine seized in Caribbean Sea
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, CMC – Honduras Minister of Defence, Marlon Pascua, says the Honduran Navy has seized at least 500 kilogrammes of cocaine in the Caribbean Sea. On Wednesday, he said two people have been arrested on suspicion of shipping the drug by boat. The Defence Minister told reporters that the shipment was headed to Honduras’ northern Bay Islands department for…
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Obama wins backing for Syria strike from key figures in Congress
WASHINGTON/BEIRUT, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama won the backing of key figures in the U.S. Congress, including Republi-cans, in his call for limited U.S. strikes on Syria to punish President Bashar al-Assad for his suspected use of chemical weapons against civilians. Speaking after the United Nations said two million Syrians had fled a conflict that posed the greatest threat to…
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US$10,000 seed capital for Caribbean mobile app developers
developers PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Guardian – Mobile app developers from Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica can win US$10,000 in seed capital through an initiative of the World Bank's infoDev programme. Mobile app entrepreneurs from the two countries are invited to join their counterparts from Africa, Central Asia, Eastern Europe to participate in the new initiative to take their apps…
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U.S. pleased with Guyana’s implementation level of security advice – Embassy officialU.S. pleased wi
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Chronicle – CHARGE d'Affaires of the United States (U.S.) Embassy in Georgetown, Mr. Bryan Hunt has said Guyana has one of the better security regimes of the countries within CARICOM. He offered the opinion to reporters last Friday following a certification of several persons from the sector who underwent training. Hunt said the U.S. is very pleased with…
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