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Caribbean nationals named to ACP eminent group
BRUSSELS, CMC – Two Caribbean Community (CARICOM) nationals, including former Guyana president Bharrat Jagdeo, have been included in the 14-member Eminent Persons Group (EPG) whose mission will be to provide guidance and recommendations for the future of the African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Grouping. Apart from 48-year-old Jagdeo, who served as President of Guyana from 1999 to 2011, the other…
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Grenada to stage referendum on CCJ
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Grenada will hold a referendum in two years to decide on the island’s relationship with the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Governor General Sir Carlyle Glean said Wednesday. Addressing the ceremonial opening of the new Parliament since the February 19 general elections, Sir Carlyle said that the Constitution Reform Committee would be reconstituted and…
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Small states, big problems: size does matter
KINGSTON, Jamaica – FOR decades the small developing states of the world, led by the advocacy of Caricom, have been at pains to explain to the world that their economies are very vulnerable to adverse external events, to which they have severely limited capacity for adjustment. On this basis their structural features, inability to attain economies of scale and their…
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Moderate quake rattles
(Jamaica Observer) – A moderate earthquake has rattled Trinidad & Tobago, causing some alarm, but no reported damage or injuries. The US Geological Survey says the magnitude-4.8 quake struck early yesterday and was centred some 50 miles north east of Roxborough, an eastern town on the tourism-dependent island of Tobago. It was also felt in the Caribbean country of Barbados.…
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Journalist to sue Sports Minister
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Journalist Anika Gumbs-Sandiford has retained former attorney general Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj as she pursues legal action against Sports Minister Anil Roberts for defamation. “I have been advised by Senior Counsel that the words spoken and published amount to serious slander and libel and would entitle me to be vindicated by the court in respect…
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Thirty-three Haitians land in Jamaica
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC- Thirty-three Haitians were taken ashore on Saturday afternoon after they were intercepted by Coast Guard officials off the coast of the eastern parish of Portland. The Haitians – 16 adult males, four adult females and 13 children including two infants were spotted by fishermen who alerted the marine police and the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF). They were…
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Illegal Cuban migrants evade authorities
GRAND TURK, Turks and Caicos Islands, CMC– Immigration authorities here say they are investigating the escape of at least a dozen Cubans, who mysteriously arrived in Miami in what is believed to be a human trafficking ring. lara Gardiner, of the Turks and Caicos’ Ministry of Immigration and Border Control, confirmed that authorities are conducting the probe but did not…
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Bahamas worried at influx on illegal Cubans
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – Foreign Minister Frederick Mitchell says the Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF) had detained 17 Cubans at Cay Lobos on Sunday and that the Perry Christie administration is seeking to repatriate them swiftly to Havana. “We have advised the Cuban government that they are in the centre and we want them repatriated swiftly to Cuba in accordance…
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More than 500 J’cans deported from CARICOM states, Curaçao
KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Ministry of Foreign affairs and Foreign Trade is reporting that 271 Jamaicans were deported from CARICOM states in 2012. Another 254 Jamaicans were deported from Curaçao. This was revealed by AJ Nicholson, foreign affairs minister. He was responding to questions posed by Opposition senator Robert Montague in the Senate on Friday.
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