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Guyana preparing for international talks on banning mercury
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana is sending a delegation to the fifth session of the Inter-Governmental Negotiation Committee in Geneva later this month where an international ban on mercury will be discussed. The meeting is scheduled for January 13-18 and local stakeholders, including officials from the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment, the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC),…
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Western diplomats call for Local Government polls in Guyana
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Western countries Wednesday pressured Guyana to ensure that Local Government elections last held here in 1994 take place during the coming months. In a joint statement issued by the United States Ambassador D. Brent Hardt, the United Kingdom High Commissioner Andrew Ayre, his Canadian counterpart David Devine and Robert Kopecky, the European Union diplomat here, the…
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Forget the politics and do what needs to be done
KINGSTON, Jamaica – MR Delano Franklyn may well be right. Perhaps the Chicago Tribune was unfair in its adverse characterisation of the Jamaican economy, using Greece as a sort of measuring stick. What is not in question, though, is that our economy is in an awful state — badly in need of restructuring. This, as a result of a downward…
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Zacca: Jamaica heading for economic crisis without IMF deal
KINGSTON, Jamaica – PRIVATE Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) President Christopher Zacca says Jamaica will be diving deep into an economic crisis if the country continues to be without an International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreement. What's more, Zacca figures that the longer it takes to seal a deal, the closer the country will get to falling over its own fiscal…
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Chávez-type strength key to PetroCaribe
KINGSTON, Jamaica – WITH SPECULATIONS rife over whether Venezuela would continue the PetroCaribe arrangement if Hugo Chávez is replaced as president, Jamaica's energy minister says willpower such as the ailing leader's is a necessary ingredient to the survival of the deal. “I think there is commitment on the part of the administration (to continue it), but because there was opposition…
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EDITORIAL – No more procrastination, PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica – There will be temptation among skittish members of the Government, we fear, to slink behind the recent acknowledgement by the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Chief Economist Olivier Blanchard that the Fund underestimated the potentially deflationary impact of its policies in Greece to escape having to make the hard choices on adjustment in Jamaica. It is hardly coincidental,…
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PM attending PetroCaribe talks in Venezuela
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony is heading a two-member delegation to Venezuela for a meeting of PetroCaribe, an initiative of Caracas allowing many Caribbean countries to purchase oil on conditions of preferential payment. St. Lucia has not joined the alliance that was launched in 2005, but a government statement said that attending the meeting would allow…
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UK formally requests extradition of former TCI Premier
PROVIDENCIALS, Turks and Caicos Islands, CMC -The United Kingdom has made a request for the extradition of former Turks and Caicos Premier Michael Misick who is being held in a Brazilian jail following after his December arrest in the South American nation on an international warrant. Under an agreement with Brazil, the British authorities have 60 days from the date…
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Haiti ex-leader Aristide questioned over corruption
Haitian ex-president Jean-Bertrand Aristide answered prosecutors' questions Wednesday in a landmark investigation for the country over charges he used homeless children to get donations. Thousands of Aristide supporters gathered outside a courthouse and poured into the streets to protest what they denounced as political persecution. Among various accusations of corruption, a group of people has filed a complaint claiming they…
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