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More CARICOM spin will get us nowhere fast
KINGSTON, Jamaica – JUST before last week's 34th meeting of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Conference of Heads of Government in Port of Spain, we bemoaned in this space that CARICOM, some five years after the eruption of the global economic crisis, had still not formulated a regional response. The rationale for a regional response is two-fold. First, joint action with…
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Storm brings showers to T&T
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – TROPICAL Storm Chantal, which churned its way through the Caribbean yesterday, brought brief but heavy showers to Trinidad and Tobago. Both islands were relatively event-free on Monday night while yesterday morning the rains began as a drizzle which then turned into full-blown thundershowers around just after midday. There were no reports of flooding.
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Southern village hardest hit by storm’s passage
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC — Tropical Storm Chantal left Dominica with a trail of destruction in the southern part of this Windward island on Tuesday before churning out into the Caribbean Sea and setting its sights on Haiti and the Dominican Republic. By 5.00 pm (2100 GMT), a tropical storm warning was discontinued after a day of strong gusts left some…
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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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