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Dominica mopping up after passage of Tropical Storm Chantal
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Electricity was slowing being restored to several parts of Dominica on Wednesday as authorities began the task of counting the cost of the damage caused by Tropical Storm Chantal 24 hours earlier. Public Works and Infrastructural Development Minister Rayburn Blackmore, speaking on the state-owned DBS radio Wednesday, said the authorities will be assessing the damage “and…
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Tropical Storm Chantal nears Dominican Republic, Haiti, creating flooding fears
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Tropical Storm Chantal roared south of Puerto Rico early Wednesday on a path that will see it pass over the Dominican Republic and Haiti, where authorities warned of possible landslides and heavy flooding. Chantal was becoming disorganized and a hurricane watch was discontinued for the Dominican Republic's southern coast, according to the National Hurricane Center…
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Venezuela Confirms Snowden Asylum Request
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela's president says that his country has received an asylum request from NSA leaker Edward Snowden. President Nicolas Maduro had already offered asylum to Snowden, who apparently is holed up in the transit lounge of a Moscow airport. Bolivia and Nicaragua also say they'll grant asylum. Ecuador says it will consider any request. Maduro says it is…
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Egypt’s Interim Government Seeks Quick Elections
CAIRO — Seeking to reassure Egyptians and the world about its intention to return to civilian democracy, the military-led interim government on Tuesday laid out a brisk timetable to overhaul Egypt’s suspended Constitution, elect a new Parliament and choose a new president, all in the space of about six months. The release of the new timetable, issued in the name…
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Slow economic activity despite reforms
HAVANA, Cuba, CMC – Cuba said Monday its economy will fall short of the 3.6 percent goal for growth, an indication that President Raúl Castro’s reforms are generating little new economic activity. According to the official Cuban Communist party newspaper, Granma, despite the forecast, Castro was happy about the report on his reforms of the economy. “We continue advancing, and…
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Opposition leader dismisses statement from acting Police Commissioner regarding “emailgate” scandal
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC –Opposition Leader Dr. Keith Rowley Monday said he was “Curious” as to how Acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams reached a conclusion that e-mails which he read in Parliament purporting to show senior government ministers involved in a plot to undermine the judiciary, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the media were fakes.…
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Central Bank says local economy grew by nearly two per cent during first quarter of 2013
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago economy grew by nearly two per cent in the first three months of the year and Central bank Governor Jwala Rambarran urged local investors to get more involved in the economic future of the oil rich twin island republic. “I commend these business leaders for their vote of confidence in…
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Montserrat to host workshop to save endangered Mountain Chicken
BRADES, Montserrat, CMC– Local, regional and international stakeholders will convene on Montserrat on Tuesday for a four-day workshop to work on a strategy to save the critically endangered Mountain Chicken. The Mountain Chicken recovery programme workshop to be held at the Montserrat National Trust in Olveston, will review activities of the Mountain Chicken project and highlight the current issues of…
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Trade Unions concerned about impact of economy on work force
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The state of the economy will be the focal point of a meeting of trade union officials who have raised concern about how Government paid employees are coping. With a public sector wage freeze in place, the devaluation of the Jamaican dollar and the recent increase in toll rates, the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU)…
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