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  • January 28, 2013
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    Caribbean should renew US anti-gun lobby

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – All well-thinking Jamaicans should be paying close attention to the gun control debate in the United States. It’s been taking place for decades, experiencing highs and lows periodically. But the gun debate has taken on new wings since the mid-December massacre of 26 people, including 20 children, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. Immediately after that…

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  • January 28, 2013
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    UWI fallout

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – A debt of approximately $200 million owed by the Barbados Government to the University of the West Indies – most of it to the Cave Hill campus – has started to have a negative impact and ripple effect on several operators within the business community. DAILY NATION investigations have revealed that the Barbados-based campus which is celebrating…

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    Antigua to launch first renewable energy project

    ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The Government of Antigua and Barbuda has successfully partnered with several international groups and countries through the regional Caribbean Renewable Energy Development Programme (CREDP) project in launching the first renewable energy project on the island. The 6-kilowatt photovoltaic power system at the Nelsons Dockyard Shirley Heights Lookout was aided by the Organization of American States…

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  • January 28, 2013
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    Opposition Leader says no apology necessary

    CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC-St.Lucia's Opposition Leader Stephenson King has taken a tough stance in ongoing controversy with House Speaker Peter Foster by insisting that no leader of the opposition should ever have to apologise for doing his duty. King made his position clear in a letter to Foster's Attorney Michael Gordon, who had written to him demanding an apology “within…

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  • January 28, 2013
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    Compensation must match US $21 million award

    ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Antigua & Barbuda is unwilling to consider any monetary settlement below US $21 million annually to end the gaming dispute with the US, according to Finance Minister Harold Lovell. Lovell said a one off US $10 million settlement, which was once put on the table by the US to end the gaming dispute between the two…

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  • January 28, 2013
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    Belize/Guatemala territorial dispute heads to World Court

    SANTIAGO, Chile, CMC – The Organization of American States (OAS) says its Secretary General, José Miguel Insulza, met with the Ministers of Foreign Affairs from Belize and Guatemala on the protracted territorial dispute between both countries. “The meeting's main objective was to exchange information on the tasks that both countries are committed to carry out in preparation for the referenda…

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  • January 28, 2013
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    AP Interview: Haiti eyes tourism, other businesses

    DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Haiti's prime minister says his country is hoping to attract high-end tourists and multinational investors — instead of constant aid handouts — so it can get on its feet after the devastating 2010 earthquake. Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe said Saturday he recognizes that's an ambitious dream for a country where 52 percent of the people live…

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  • January 28, 2013
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    Crime taking on toll on Caribbean economies

    WASHINGTON, CMC – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) says several commissioned studies have revealed that crime and violence have had a dramatic impact on women, youth and the economic well-being of families in Latin America and the Caribbean. The new studies “underscore the more hidden dimensions of the cost of crime” on regional economies, by looking at issues such as…

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  • January 28, 2013
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    Caribbean women subject to widespread sexual violence

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – exual violence against women is being seen as widespread in parts of Latin America and the Caribbean. Alessandra Guedes, Regional Advisor on Intra-Family Violence at PAHO has indicated that a recent report titled “Violence against Women in Latin America and the Caribbean” showed that unfortunately violence against women is widespread in the 12 countries that they studied…

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  • January 28, 2013
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    EDITORIAL – Now that the PM didn’t go to Chile

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – It can't have been without compelling reason that Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller decided to miss the summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) in Chile, to which she has dispatched her foreign minister, Mr A.J. Nicholson. CELAC, we remind, is a relatively new organisation, formally launched in 2010, as a forum for…

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