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Venezuela presidential race begins amid personal attacks and tension
BOGOTA — Drugs, lies and murder plots. Venezuela’s compressed presidential campaign officially begins Tuesday in a race that will determine the future of the Andean nation after the death of President Hugo Chávez, who led the country for 14 years. But the accusations and innuendos being hurled between the two main candidates are threatening to turn this into one of…
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PetroCaribe projects face unsure future
KINGSTON, Jamaica – With looming uncertainty over the PetroCaribe Energy Cooperation Agreement, following the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, there is concern that the future of the projects under the cash-rich PetroCaribe Development Fund (PDF) is also unsure. With an asset base of $241.2 billion up to January 2013, the PDF was set up in 2006 to undertake a…
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Changes and youth in West Indies cricket welcome
welcome KINGSTON, Jamaica – CONGRATULATIONS to Jamaican Wycliffe “Dave” Cameron and Dominican Emmanuel Nanthan at being elected to the ultra-important positions of President and vice president, respectively, West Indies Cricket Board. These are positive examples of youth not at all having been wasted on the young! Observing Cameron and Nanthan posing for media photographs reminded me much of the youthful…
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All the best, Mr Cameron
Cameron KINGSTON, Jamaica – Mr Whycliffe 'Dave' Cameron takes the president's chair at the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) at a most interesting time in the game's development across the region. The recent successes of the senior men's and women's teams have heightened expectations of better days ahead for the game. Those expectations will no doubt carry over into how…
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Where’s Jamaica’s Gorbachev?
? KINGSTON, Jamaica – The former USSR was a politically aligned collection of previously independent states that did little more than serve the egotistic, power-hungry needs of leaders such as Josef Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev, while countering the superpower status of the United States (US). During the Cold War, the two superpowers attempted to divide the world into…
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Trust deficit: Gov’t, IMF and Haiti
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Call me Thomas if you wish, but on this Easter Sunday, what is being resurrected for me is a deep distrust for those who are elected and appointed to govern us. Despite being full of 'knowledge' based on blind faith that Jesus is coming again as a thief in the night, I am worried that he might…
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Opposition wants full probe
probe KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The main opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has called for a full scale investigation into reports that National Security Minister Peter Bunting had been held up and robbed over the weekend. Opposition spokesman on National Security and Justice Delroy Chuck in a statement said while the JLP had learnt of the “unfortunate incident” and was…
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It wasn’t me! – Security minister confirms robbery of friends at villa
KINGSTON, Jamaica – SECURITY Minister Peter Bunting yesterday attempted to allay fears that he was among a group of persons robbed at a villa in Portland on Saturday night. At least one online news outlet reported that Bunting and a female companion were held up and robbed by thieves who brandished knives at them.
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