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  • CARIBBEAN-SECURITY- PortMiami to cooperate with Caribbean on security issues

    MIAMI, CMC – The United States’ Department of State has signed a partnership agreement with PortMiami aimed at helping to enhance port security in the Caribbean. As enforcement pressures increase against drug traffickers in Mexico and Central America, William R. Brownfield, assistant Secretary of State for international narcotics and law enforcement affairs, said on Wednesday that it is logical that…

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  • The debate on reparations

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate – Although, if readers will forgive the sporting expressions, popular support for the regional claim for reparations for slavery might have been considered a “slam-dunk” or a “gimme” in the current economic environment, it is refreshing to see that the debate has been joined by an opposing contribution from Dr. Leonard Shorey, published in both of the…

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  • BARBADOS-HEALTH-Barbados to host CAPSCA meeting

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC –Matters relating to public health event preparedness, response planning and management in the civil aviation sector will be discussed next week when Barbados hosts the Fifth Cooperative Arrangement for the Prevention of the Spread of Communicable Diseases through Air Travel (CAPSCA) meeting. Tourism and International Transport Minister Richard Sealy and Health Minister John Boyce will deliver addresses…

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  • CARIBBEAN-SIDS-SIDS adopt political declaration at Barbados meeting

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Small Islands Developing States (SIDS) have adopted a political declaration ahead of the Third International Conference on Sustainable Development of SIDS Global conference in Samoa next year. But negotiations on the draft outcome document on sustainable development for SIDS will continue in New York following three days of discussions here. “The Inter-Regional Preparatory Meeting in preparation…

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  • SURINAME-CONFERENCE -All set for South American summit

    PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC – With the start of the meeting of Foreign Affairs ministers from South America on Thursday here, all is set for the historical 7th Summit of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) on Friday. This will be the first meeting of UNASUR government leaders without the late president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, the driving force behind…

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  • GUYANA-POLITICS-Guyana looking to deepen relations between South America and Caribbean

    GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC –President Donald Ramotar says he is optimistic about the possible integration of South America and the Caribbean as Guyana prepares to welcome Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro on Saturday. Maduro will pay a one-day official visit to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country and Ramotar said that closer cooperation between South America and the region will result in significant…

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  • Minister Paradis Visits Haiti to Assess Progress and Challenges

    PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI–(Marketwired – Aug 28, 2013) – In his first international trip since being appointed Minister of International Development and Minister for La Francophonie, the Honourable Christian Paradis visited Haiti to see first-hand what progress has been made, what results have been achieved, and what development challenges must be tackled going forward. “Canadians are an immensely generous people and they…

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  • Death penalty high on agenda…as Govt, Opposition in more crime talks today

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Guardian – Crime remains the Government’s number one priority. So said Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Tuesday night, hours ahead of today’s talks on crime between the Government and Opposition teams. Speaking with reporters after commissioning lights at the Morne Diablo Recreation Ground, Penal, Persad-Bissessar said while crime was something the People’s Partnership inherited, it was…

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  • BACK TO SCHOOL MURDER

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Express – A revenge attack was blocked by the police yesterday, about an hour after a Laventille schoolboy was murdered while walking out of a trade school on the first day of school. The group of about six men had items that looked like weapons stuffed in their front pockets and were attempting to run into…

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  • U.S. scientist operates colleague’s brain from across campus

    NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Scientists said yesterday they have achieved the first human-to-human mind meld, with one researcher sending a brain signal via the Internet to control the hand motion of a colleague sitting across the Seattle campus of the University of Washington. The feat is less a conceptual advance than another step in the years-long progress that researchers have…

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