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CARICOM complainants don’t need new bureaucracy
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Christopher Tufton, the shadow foreign affairs and foreign trade minister, doesn't seem to get it. So, he is shopping around for more bureaucracy – a mechanism, he says, for public-private sector consultation on trade disputes with Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica's Caribbean Community (CARICOM) partners, with whom we have a trade deficit of nearly US$1 billion. Jamaica's private…
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Let’s decide, do we leave or go forward with CARICOM?
KINGSTON. Jamaica – This Tuesday, Jamaica gets what we believe may be a last chance to make up our minds whether we cut the umbilical cord between us and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and strike out alone on an uncertain future outside of the regional bloc. Foreign Minister Arnold J Nicholson, very correctly in our view, has invited some of…
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Sweeping Protests in Brazil Pull In an Array of Grievances
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Just a few weeks ago, Mayara Vivian felt pretty good when a few hundred people showed up for a protest she helped organize to deride the government over a proposed bus fare increase. She had been trying to prod Brazilians into the streets since 2005, when she was only 15, and by now she thought she…
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Protests in Brazil
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – There is not a lot in Brazil that is more important than football but on Wednesday, not even Brazil’s victory over Mexico in the Confederation Cup could divert attention from the wave of protests that have shaken the country this week. Indeed, the news that the authorities of Brazil’s largest cities, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro,…
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Jamaica to establish national museum
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica government has announced plans for the establishment of a National Museum of the Jamaican People. Youth and Culture Minister Lisa Hanna said the museum will be created as part of the Institute of Jamaica (IOJ). “It will be a space where our children will be able to learn the glorious history of this nation…
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Cops ask PM for ‘make, type’ of electronic devices
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said yesterday police investigators have contacted her via letter requesting the “make and type” of her electronic devices. This letter, she said, was promptly handed over to her legal adviser, Israel Khan, SC. “For myself I am not au courant with that kind of lingo, the technology lingo, so I have…
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D-DAY FOR GORDON
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Today could very well be D-Day for Integrity Commission chairman Ken Gordon. Will President Anthony Carmona ask Gordon to resign or will he revoke his appointment? Or, will Gordon resign on his own volition? The future of the embattled commission chairman remains uncertain as controversy continues to rage over his secret meeting with Opposition Leader…
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