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Prime Minister warns of consequences in meeting increased salary demands of public servants
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – The St. Lucia government says while it is anxious to bring closure to the wage and salary negotiations involving public servants it is not going to endorse salaries that would further affect the economic situation in the country and force the island into the clutches of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In a nationwide radio…
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Messages on “Insecure Haiti” Refuted
Port-au-Prince, (Prensa Latina) The Communications Ministry of Haiti leads today a campaign refuting a list the US and European media circulate placing Haiti among the most unsafe countries in the world, an allegation it declares false and to prove otherwise it quotes reports from different international bodies. For instance, those sources remind that in Central America and the Caribbean, countries…
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EDITORIAL – Don’t leave the retreat until there is a plan
KINGSTON, Jamaica – In a broadcast Sunday evening, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller provided her account of the stewardship of the Government in the year since its election. She followed up yesterday with newspaper advertisements in her role as president of the People's National Party. This newspaper welcomes these initiatives. Reporting to constituents is an important component of leadership. However,…
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Haiti Prime Minister: Country is safe
Haiti’s Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe is pushing back at suggestions that his nation is unsafe. “We would like to reassure the tourists, the diaspora, people who want to visit….Haiti is one of the safest destinations that they could visit,” Lamothe said Monday at a press conference in Port-au-Prince, quoting U.N. crime statistics. The latest figures from U.N. Office on Drugs…
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Wickham: Time to join CCJ
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – It is time that Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago fully sign on to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as their final court of appeal. This is coming from political scientist Peter Wickham, who thinks that both countries have a moral duty to accept the court. Asked if those countries’ positions could demoralize the spirit of regional integration, especially…
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Mandela’s recovery is good, says Zuma
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela has recovered from his recent lung infection and a surgical procedure to remove gallstones, according to an announcement yesterday by President Jacob Zuma. Doctors say that Mandela, 94, has made “steady progress and that clinically, he continues to improve,” according to a statement issued by Zuma's office. Mandela was hospitalised for…
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With Inauguration Approaching, Uncertainty in Venezuela
Venezuelans and their political leaders are facing a week of questions as the country, and the world, wait to see if ailing President Hugo Chavez takes the oath of office January 10. Thursday is the day designated by the Venezuelan constitution for administering the oath of office. Chavez won re-election in October, but he has been in Cuba for cancer…
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