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Take a bow, Tobago
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – However it goes on THA election day January 21, the people of Tobago have already scored a victory with the agreement by the contesting political parties to participate in tonight's debate. To have secured the leaders of the three contending parties to agree to enter the sober, rational environment of the forum organised by the…
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Ministers in ‘secret talks’ with Jack
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Seven Government Ministers, including National Security Minister and UNC chairman Jack Warner, were in Tobago yesterday for a meeting with political leader of the Tobago Organisation of the People (TOP), Ashworth Jack. The meeting took place at the Coco Reef Resort in Crown Point under a high degree of secrecy, and included Ministers Warner, Suruj…
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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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