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  • January 8, 2013
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    Official welcomes WHO draft on NCDs

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A senior Barbados health official has described as a “major achievement” the recent agreement by member countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) to draft a comprehensive global monitoring framework for the prevention and control of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD). Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Joy St. John, who is also the Chairperson of the WHO Executive Board,…

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  • January 8, 2013
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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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  • January 8, 2013
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    PM comments on Barbados’ downgrade

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – No country rejoices at being downgraded, says Prime Minister Freundel Stuart on last month’s International rating agency Moody’s downgrade of Barbados. “However, the downgrade has not altered any of the facilities to which Barbadians are entitled and to which they have access. Life continues,” he stressed. “We have a comfortable foreign exchange position at the moment; we…

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  • January 8, 2013
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    EDITORIAL: Strengthening CARICOM/Cuba cooperation

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – n a pace-setting move the Guyana Parliament last week unanimously approved a motion to record for posterity the “special relationship” that country shares with Cuba. As Guyana’s Foreign Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, noted, the relationship with Cuba dates back to more than four decades when Guyana was still a British colony, and prior to the 1962 United States-imposed…

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  • January 8, 2013
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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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  • January 8, 2013
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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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  • January 7, 2013
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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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  • January 7, 2013
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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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  • January 7, 2013
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    Venezuela

    GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The election which took place yesterday in Venezuela was of a certain significance. It was a poll among legislators to elect the chairman of the National Assembly and pitted Diosdado Cabello, who already held the post, against challenger Blanca Eekhout, who belongs to the Chávista faction led by Vice President Nicolás Maduro.  It masked the jostling for…

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  • January 7, 2013
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    Haitian president performs with Julio Iglesias at Dominican Republic fundraiser

    SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – Haitian President Michel Martelly briefly stepped back in time last weekend, doing his old “Sweet Micky” stage name proud as he sang alongside Spanish heartthrob Julio Iglesias at a glittering fundraiser in the Dominican Republic. The celebrity-studded concert was staged to help raise money for impoverished Haitian children, with proceeds going to the Pink and…

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