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CARICOM points to other issues affecting socio-economic development
UNITED NATIONS, CMC – The United Nations General Assembly met on Monday to consider progress in the global struggle against the HIV/AIDS epidemic with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries indicating that other “pressing” health challenges are threatening the region’s socio-economic development. Speaking on behalf of CARICOM, the Bahamas’ UN envoy, Eugene Glenwood Newry, identified these challenges as “persistent and significant…
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UN warns 1.5 million Haitians face severe hunger
GENEVA, Switzerland, CMC -A United Nations food relief agency says it remains “extremely concerned” by the plight of 1.5 million people in Haiti who need food assistance following extreme weather conditions and poor harvests. In addition to the 1.5 million people facing food insecurity, the World Food Programme (WFP) said a further 6.7 million people in the impoverished, French-speaking Caribbean…
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Law expert gives opinion on holding referendum to join CCJ
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – A Caribbean law expert is cautioning against putting matters related to the future of the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in the hands of the public through a referendum. Professor Rosemary Antoine, who specialises in labour and off shore law at the University of the West Indies (UWI), says such an approach could pose…
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Caribbean, Chinese talk business in New York
KINGSTON, Jamaica – As Caribbean governments seek new investors, the Chinese are urging them to capitalise on a business development and investment promotion trip to China coming up this fall. The offer, which was made at the Avalon Invest Caribbean Now Forum last Wednesday in New York comes days after China's president, Xi Jinping offered concessionary loans to nine Caribbean…
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China’s new diplomatic footprints
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – CHINA’S PRESIDENT Xi Jinping last week embarked on a four-nation tour of the Caribbean and Americas involving Trinidad and Tobago, Costa Rica, Mexico and the United States of America. The trip had more than symbolic significance. Trinidad and Tobago, with its vast oil and gas resources, is an important cooperation partner of China in the Anglophone Caribbean,…
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EDITORIAL – Empathy with Mr Nicholson
KINGSTON, Jamaica – A.J. Nicholson might have engaged his mouth rather too loosely on this occasion. We, however, have some appreciation of, and sympathy with, his exasperation with some business and political leaders over their approach to alleged abuse of the Caribbean Community's (CARICOM) trade regime by some of our regional partners. Or, as Mr Nicholson put it in the…
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Trinidad minister defends local manufactures as well as Jamaican counterpart
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago Trade and Industry Minister Vasant Bharath Tuesday defended his Jamaican counterpart, AJ Nicholson, who has come under pressure to “step aside” amid the ongoing trade dispute between Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. Bharath, speaking on local radio here, described the call for Nicholson’s departure by the Jamaica Manufacturers Association (JMA) as…
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Of trade, aid and silence
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – THE RECENT virtual back-to-back visits by the USA’s Vice-President Joseph Biden and China’s President Xi Jinping have served to fuel optimism for increased trade and economic investment among Caribbean Community states. Current realities in our trade relations with these major and quite influential powers should remind us that given the nature of small and vulnerable…
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WTO Director General urges Caribbean to take advantage of trade opportunities
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Pascal Lamy Tuesday urged developing countries to ensure they have the necessary trade capacity to take advantage of a changing global environment. Addressing the launch of the Caribbean Regional Aid for Trade (AFT) Strategy, Lamy said however having trade opportunities is not enough. “We must translate…
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