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T&T must support Mali rescue effort
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – That UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon last week applauded French military intervention in Mali underscores international concern about developments in that nation which occupies so revered a place in African history. Mali is, among other things, home to Timbuktu, the ancient seat of learning. Its fabled past resonates with names such as Sundiata and Mansa…
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Chavez’s Absence Overshadows Latin American, Caribbean Summit
The absence due to illness of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez played a major role during the final day of a summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) in Santiago on Monday. Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro read out to leaders a long letter from Chavez, which Venezuelan officials had noted in advance was signed in red…
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PM calls on Opposition Leader to apologise to Speaker
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony has called on Opposition Leader Stephenson King to apologise to Speaker Peter Foster as the controversy over the alleged conflict of interest in the ongoing public inquiry into the St. Lucia Fire Service took yet another turn. Anthony, replying to a letter sent to him by King on the appointment…
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EDITORIAL – New front in UWI debate
KINGSTON, Jamaica – We are grateful to Professor Hubert Devonish for his forthright, clear and simple enunciation of this basic fact. “The University of the West Indies (UWI), whatever the high-minded motives behind its establishment, is now a business,” he wrote in this newspaper on Sunday. Professor Devonish is a linguist at the UWI's Mona, Jamaica, campus. He made the…
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Oldest political party bows out of election race
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Grenada’s oldest political party said Monday that it will not contest the February 19 general elections, effectively making the contest a two-way race between the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the main opposition New National Party (NNP). “We decided at a meeting on Saturday that we will not contest because we have some things…
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Former Portland MP Sam Lawrence is dead
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Former Member of Parliament for Eastern Portland Headley Samuel 'Sam' Lawrence died suddenly yesterday morning, only hours after he made his final trek to the all-important function of his beloved People's National Party (PNP) – a meeting of the National Executive Council (NEC). Lawrence, who was in his 70s, died after he fell ill and was rushed…
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Government minister dies
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Less than 21 days before Grenadians go to the poll to elect a new government, Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries Minister Denis Michael Lett has died. He was 74 years old. Lett, a member of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) died of prostate cancer. He had successfully contested the 2003 and 2008 general elections but…
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Polls predict change in Grenada
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – The main opposition New National Party (NNP) is likely to win the February 19 general elections with more seats than it had before it was swept out of power in 2008, according to a new opinion poll published here on Monday. The poll by the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Research Services Inc (CADRES) predicts that the…
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Deputy PM sides with dismissed senior Cabinet minister
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC – Deputy Prime Minister Sam Condor continued his public spat with Prime Minister Dr. Denzil Douglas by publicly opposing his decision to dismiss senior government minister Dr. Timothy Harris over the weekend. In a statement, Condor, who has sided with Harris on opposition a number of government measures and policies in the past, said he found…
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