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Government not pleased with online petition
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – A campaign by local human rights watchdog, Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ), highlighting the plight of children, has not gone down well with the Minister of Youth , Lisa Hanna who has described an online petition by the JFJ as “disingenuous, dishonest, and dangerous”. According to Hanna, the petition – “Stop the abuse of Jamaica's children by…
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Venezuela President Maduro talked energy, transport while in T&T
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro’s trip to T&T two weeks ago followed the visits of Chinese President Xi Jinping and US Vice President Joe Biden to T&T in May. Energy, transportation, security and building bridges with South America’s Mercosur trade bloc were some of the main issues on the agenda when Maduro visited T&T on the…
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Jamaica to host PANCAP meetings
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, (CMC) — The Regional Coordinating Mechanism for Global Fund Projects will meet in Jamaica today. The three-day gathering coincides with the 20th meeting of the executive board of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) taking place under the chairmanship of Jamaica's Health Minister Dr Fenton Ferguson. The executive board has responsibility for providing policy guidance…
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CAL cuts Air Jamaica flights
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Cash-strapped Caribbean Airlines (CAL) has cut the number of flights of its Air Jamaica subsidiary by 50 per cent in a bid to stem multi-million-dollar losses at the national airline. CAL has reduced the flight frequencies of Air Jamaica’s core schedule services from Kingston and Montego Bay, Jamaica, to North American destinations including Toronto, Canada…
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After Egypt: uneasy now lies the head that wears a (democratic) crown
KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Egyptian military coup that removed the democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi was justified as an act to save democracy and preserve law and order by preventing the country from sinking into further chaos and violence. The military claimed that it was prompted not only by social disorder but by the publicly expressed demands of the majority…
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Caribbean American congresswoman wants probe into Zimmerman
NEW YORK, CMC – Caribbean American congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke has joined members of New York City Congressional Delegation in calling on the United States Department of Justice to conduct a “thorough” investigation and possible prosecution of a white neighbourhood watch volunteer who killed an unarmed black youth in Florida. On Saturday, an all-white female jury in Florida found George…
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