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Realities in Global Treatment of H.I.V.
The World Health Organization recently issued aggressive new guidelines for treating people infected with H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS. The guidelines are a welcome step forward but fall short of the treatment goals that could and should be set. The missing ingredient is enough financing by international donors and many afflicted countries to make treatments widely available. Currently, an…
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PM Skerrit presents EC$474.5 million tax free budget
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit Wednesday presented an EC$474.7 million (One EC dollar= US$0.37 cents) take free budget to Parliament predicting economic growth and improvements in the main revenue earning sectors. Skerrit, who is also Finance Minister, said that budget presented does not include any new taxes or unrealistic promises and that it is based on the…
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ACS secretary general Alfonso Múnera on: Linking Colombia and T&T
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Caribbean Airlines and Colombia’s Avianca are in talks that could result in direct flights between Colombia and T&T. This would facilitate easier business and trade between the two countries, said Alfonso Múnera, secretary general, Association of Caribbean States (ACS). Múnera spoke about a meeting between T&T’s Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Dookeran and Colombia’s Foreign Affairs…
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A new phase in inter-regional ties
The Second China-Latin America and the Caribbean Think Tanks Forum is being held five years after the start of the subprime crisis. The worst and longest since 1930s, the crisis has been largely concentrated in industrialised countries. The eurozone will remain in recession in 2013 and its 2014 GDP will remain below its 2007 level. In 2014, Germany's GDP will…
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Former regional diplomat says Caribbean still requires special attention from China
BEIJING, China, CMC – Former Antigua and Barbuda diplomat, Sir Ronald Sanders, says Caribbean countries are still in need of special attention and urged China not to place the region in the same category as many Latin American countries. Addressing a China-Latin American Forum here on Tuesday, Sir Ronald argued that “while efforts at integration of Latin America and the…
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ECLAC says equality “guiding principle” for a paradigm change in the Caribbean
CARACAS, Venezuela, CMC – The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) says equality is the “guiding principle” for a paradigm change in the Caribbean and Latin America. In addressing the social summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) here on Tuesday, ECLAC’s executive secretary, Alicia Bárcena, presented the document, “Structural Perspectives on the…
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EDITORIAL – Trayvon Martin and race in America
KINGSTON, Jamaica – In a perverse sort of way, the not guilty verdict against George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin murder case in Florida was good for America. The evidence lies in the scores of demonstrations last Saturday across the United States (US) against the outcome of the case, but more important, in the debate it has spurred about race…
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