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  • March 11, 2013
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    On reminiscences of good times

    ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – There is an old time saying that “You never miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.” This is true and with the death of President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, we have been left to speculate whether the special arrangements between Venezuela and Antigua & Barbuda will soon run dry. Perhaps this is mere conjecture, but…

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  • March 11, 2013
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    Former PM questions Venezuela’s loan arrangement with A&B

    ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Former Prime Minister Lester Bird labelled the recently deceased Venezuelan president a “despot” and questioned the inner workings of Venezuela’s $200 million loan to the nation. In an interview played on the Big Issues yesterday, Lester Bird said Hugo Chavez did not carry out “normal processes” of loaning money to Antigua & Barbuda through PetroCaribe and…

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  • March 11, 2013
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    EDITORIAL – PetroCaribe and Jamaica’s energy future

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – Last week's death of the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, happened as the Jamaican Government was advertising its appointment of Dr Wesley Hughes, the former financial secretary, as manager of its PetroCaribe Development Fund. This, for Dr Hughes, must have been an unwelcome coincidence that would likely have concentrated his mind not only on the substance of the…

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  • March 11, 2013
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    Major US think tank queries future of ALBA, Petrocaribe without Chávez

    WASHINGTON, CMC – With the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, a major think tank here is querying the future of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) and the Petrocaribe oil agreement with Caribbean countries. Chávez died last week after a long struggle with cancer. The Washington-based Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) noted that the ALBA bloc is made…

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  • March 11, 2013
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    Oil slip

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – BARBADOS IS MISSING out on housing, environmental and agricultural benefits by not signing on to the Petrocaribe oil agreement. So says Venezuela’s Ambassador to Barbados Jose Gomez Febres, who wants to see Barbados join the list of 17 Caribbean states which have signed the deal with Venezuela to purchase oil at preferential prices. “There are benefits for…

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  • March 11, 2013
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    The Caribbean after Chavez

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – Seventeen countries of the Caribbean face a heightened period of economic uncertainty now that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has died. Twelve of the 17 Caribbean countries are members of the Caribbean Community (Caricom). They have become highly reliant on their oil supplies from Venezuela on a part payment-part loan scheme, called PetroCaribe, without which their difficult economic…

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  • March 11, 2013
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    End of an era in region’s politics

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – THE death of Hugo Chavez, who led Venezuela for the last 14 years, has brought to an end a type of politics that many would not have associated with a region on the doorsteps of the USA, were the global environment similar to what existed 40 or even 30 years ago. It gives rise to the question…

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  • March 8, 2013
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    No ball!

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) president Julian Hunte is unlikely to get the support of the Windward Islands Cricket Board of Control he once headed in elections later this month. In a peculiar set of circumstances for the March 27 poll in Barbados, the Windwards seconded Jamaican Dave Cameron for president and Dominican Emmanuel Nanthan for vice-president.

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  • March 8, 2013
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    Former minister to re-appear in court in May

    THE VALLEY, Anguilla, CMC – Former home affairs minister Walcott Richardson is due to re-appear in court on May 10 on two charges of indecent assault. Richardson, who resigned from the Hubert Hughes administration last month, has been granted EC$110,000 (One EC dollar = US$0.37 cents) bail. In announcing his resignation last month, Richardson said he felt “in the current…

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  • March 8, 2013
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    Prof Spence: An outstanding Caribbean citizen

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Prof John Arnott Spence, who died on Wednesday night at 83, will be remembered for his sterling service to T&T and the region as a scientist, academician and spokesman for agriculture. As a UWI lecturer, public servant and independent senator, even in his retirement years his vast knowledge added value and inspired positive developments, not…

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