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  • January 21, 2013
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    The unscrambling of the scramble for Africa

    ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Colonialism and its concomitant result, slavery, has been perhaps the worst episode in human history that demonstrates the inhumanity of man to man. Whereas slavery existed for thousands of years on this earth, the European scramble for Africa produced chattel slavery. One of the by-products of this system was the listing of human beings as slaves…

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  • January 21, 2013
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    Venezuela VP optimistic Chavez will soon return

    CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday that he's optimistic that Hugo Chavez will soon return to Venezuela following cancer-related surgery in Cuba. Maduro said that he and other government officials “are always optimistic that we are going to have the president here with us sooner rather than later,” but he did not

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  • January 21, 2013
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    Cuba scrambling to contain cholera outbreak in Havana

    Cuban authorities are scrambling to contain a cholera outbreak that has sickened dozens of people in Havana, the capital city of 2.2 million residents and a popular tourism destination. In a brief communiqué issued on Tuesday, the Health Ministry said the outbreak was first detected on Jan. 6, and was being contained. “Fifty-one cases have been confirmed to date,” the…

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  • January 21, 2013
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    Remembering men of influence

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – TODAY WE REFLECT on the life and times of the Right Excellent Errol Walton Barrow, one of this island’s most important and influential leaders of the last century. Now a National Hero, Barrow will be remembered for many things – as Premier and Prime Minister and the man who led much of the social engineering that transformed…

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  • January 21, 2013
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    Caribbean tourism players convene in in the Bahamas

    PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas — Many of the biggest players in the Caribbean tourism industry have gathered here for the annual Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association’s Caribbean Travel Marketplace conference. It is the second year in a row that the Bahamas has been the host country for the conference; it has been held at the Atlantis resort each time. The conference…

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  • January 21, 2013
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    EDITORIAL: A search for compromise

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – All Barbadians will breathe a huge sigh of relief now that there has been a settlement in the LIME dispute, and all parties at the negotiating table should be commended for their willingness to sit down and calmly, if perhaps a little belatedly, look at the issues and search for compromise. Our Prime Minister deserves kudos for…

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  • January 21, 2013
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    Chen gives CXC thumbs up for entrepreneurship

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – Wayne Chen, president of the Jamaica Employers' Federation (JEF), has welcomed the Caribbean Examinations Council's (CXC) plans to introduce subjects related to entrepreneurship as part of efforts to boost the economies of the region. Speaking with The Gleaner yesterday, Chen said it was an initiative for which he had been lobbying for some time. “In fact, just…

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  • January 21, 2013
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    CXC to beef up security BRIDGETOWN

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -THE CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL (CXC) is taking steps to reduce incidents of fraud. Speaking to the DAILY NATION after a service to mark the organisation’s 40th anniversary at St Matthias Anglican Church yesterday evening, senior assistant registrar for examinations and security Susan Giles reported that they were introducing an audit system. “The school-based assessments, we are auditing them.…

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  • January 21, 2013
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    ALP leader to Vere Bird III: ‘Not on my ticket’

    ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Political Leader of the Antigua Labour Party (ALP) Gaston Browne has stoutly rejected the request by Attorney Vere Bird III to contest the next general elections on the ALP ticket. Browne, in a brief conversation with OBSERVER Media, said, “Not on my ticket,” when questioned about Bird’s interest. Bird made his interest known during a branch…

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  • January 21, 2013
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    Opposition leader called on to apologise to Speaker of the House

    CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC-Attorney’s representing Speaker of the House of Assembly, Peter Foster, have demanded an apology from Opposition Leader Stephenson King over remarks in which he accused Foster of conflict of interest surrounding the inquiry into the St. Lucia Fire Service. In a statement last week King claimed that Foster’s law firm had been hired as Counsel to the…

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