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  • June 5, 2013
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    Meetings with Chinese President ‘fruitful’

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has described as “very fruitful” the discussions he had last Sunday with the President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, in Port-of- Spain. President Xi was on an official visit to Trinidad and Tobago over the weekend, where he held bilateral meetings with the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community…

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    Sir Edwin not concerned over US and China courtship of CARICOM

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Trinidad and Tobago to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) sees no reason for concern over the recent visits by leaders of the two most powerful countries of the world to this region. Concerns have been raised in some quarters over the recent visits of US Vice- President Joe Biden and China’s…

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    Fourteen countries collaborate on Facilitation of Maritime Traffic

    ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Thirty-six delegates representing 14 countries throughout the Caribbean are gathered at Jolly Beach for a five-day seminar hosted by Antigua & Barbuda Department of Marine Services and Merchant Shipping (ADOMS) and organised by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO). The IMO-organised Regional Seminar on Facilitation of Maritime Traffic (FAL) runs from June 4 to June 7with focused…

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  • June 5, 2013
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    LIAT employees provide an essential service, PM Gonsalves says

    ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Dr Ralph Gonsalves, prime minister of St Vincent & the Grenadines, one of the three LIAT shareholder governments, said the airline’s employees are essential workers, echoing controversial sentiments made by LIAT’s chairman last month. “(Work) in the aviation business, certainly in LIAT, is an essential services. If you don’t accept that you don’t live in the…

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    Caribbean tourism uphill struggle continues

    NEW YORK, CMC – A senior official of the Barbados-based Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) Tuesday warned that the Caribbean “is barely keeping its head above water” amid predictions that the sector will record a slight increase in tourist arrivals in 2013. CTO Director of Research and Information Technology, Winfield Griffith, told a workshop that forms part of the Caribbean Week…

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    UN says 10 CARICOM countries sign Arms Trade Treaty

    UNITED NATIONS, CMC – The United Nations says that 10 Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries have signed the first ever international treaty to regulate the trade of conventional weapons. The UN identified them as Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Belize, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. Grenada’s Foreign Affairs and International Business Minister…

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    Economic growth and development high on agenda for OECS heads

    ST JOHN’S, Antigua – The 57th Meeting of the Organisation of the Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Authority concluded yesterday with sub-regional heads of governments promising to put economic growth and development high on the agenda going forward. Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer, recently installed as chairman of the OECS Authority, said he and his counterparts received a presentation on the Draft…

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    Leading Canadian bank commits to complying with IRS Caribbean request

    TORONTO, Canada, CMC – A leading Canadian bank here says it is committed to complying with the United States Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) request for information about US taxpayers who may hold offshore accounts at a Caribbean bank. Last month, the IRS filed a “John Doe” summons requesting information on an unknown number of unnamed people against US taxpayers with…

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    Two CARICOM countries given extension to meet CFATF guidelines

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Two Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries have until November to meet the stipulations outlined by the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF). The CFATF met in Nicaragua last week and according to Dominica’s Attorney General Levi Peters the island has been given “certain deadlines to comply with certain recommendations by the plenary”. Peters said that Dominica had…

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    Our unity in diversity

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -TODAY I wish to reflect on two aspects of our post-independence political culture that need to be systematically purged across our Caribbean Community in favour of cultivating attitudes and improving decision-making for more civilised, healthy, productive norms in nation-building. I make no pretence at being profound but to simply and humbly share with readers my own…

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