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All hail and welcome, President Carmona
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – With a remarkable equanimity of spirit, Trinidad and Tobago welcomed its fifth President with as much positive anticipation as it said goodbye to its fourth with fond regard and memories. As the Port of Spain sun set on his decade-long tenure, the T&T Regiment band serenaded President Max Richards and his wife, Dr Jean Ramjohn-Richards,…
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CCJ makes landmark evidence ruling today
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – THE CARIBBEAN Court of Justice's (CCJ) trip to Barbados will be highlighted by a landmark evidentiary ruling today. The CCJ's decision, expected this morning, is one that could set a precedent on statements of evidence, what documents are fit for evidence and how their admissibility will be treated. The ruling became necessary when Jamaican lawyer…
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The South can create its own development
KINGSTON, Jamaica – For the last 200 years, the North — more specifically North America and Western Europe — dominated the world economy and was the engine of growth. The Russian Revolution and its colonisation of Eastern Europe created the tripartite world of First (North), Second (Communist) and the South (colonies and poor independent developing countries). That formation lasted until…
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ACP welcomes EU vote on sugar
BRUSSELS, CMC – Chairman of the African Caribbean Pacific (ACP) Sugar Group, Ambassador P.I, Gomes, says while he welcomes the recent decision to continue the current beet sugar quota until 2020, the ruling would need to be supported by European Union when it considers the sugar regime. Last week, the European Parliament voted in support of Comagri’s proposal for the…
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Venezuelan elections and the Chávez cult
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Fifteen years ago, elections in Venezuela were not very democratic affairs, confined to nasty battles between two factions within the country's elite, and largely excluding any representation of the interests of the majority poor, except to temporarily garner their votes. Sound vaguely familiar? After Chávez, all of that changed. Winning is now a genuine battle for the…
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Bahamasair continues to lose money
KINGSTON, Jamaica – The national airline, Bahamasair, recorded a loss of US$11.7 million last year compared with US$9.8 million in 2011, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Works and Urban Development, Philip Davis, has announced. He said that for the period July-December 2012, the airlines revenue amounted to US$37.4 million, while expenses totalled US$49.1 million. The increase in net loss…
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Knight: JLP did not endorse Ja-Chávez ties
KINGSTON, Jamaica – DESCRIBING PRAISES being heaped on deceased Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez as Damascus-like, Government Senator K.D. Knight, last Friday, chided members of the Opposition who spoke in the Senate during a tribute to the fallen solider. Knight argued that the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), which now forms the Opposition, had never endorsed Jamaica's relationship with Chávez. The JLP…
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