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Venezuela devalues currency amid dollar shortage
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela’s currency devaluation took effect on Wednesday amid questions about how the government can get a grip on 22-per cent inflation and satisfy growing demand for dollars to pay for imported goods. Some economists predict that the devaluation won’t solve problems such as a dearth of dollars for imports and shortages of some staple foods. The country’s…
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U.S. trains for mass migration in Caribbean security drill
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba, (Reuters) – A simulated wave of Caribbean migrants sailed to the Guantanamo naval base this week for a training drill designed to prepare U.S. troops and security agencies who might someday have to handle the real thing. The exercise is held every two years to prepare for a potential mass migration brought on by…
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Venezuela’s Chavez improving after tough cancer fight, Castro says
HAVANA (Reuters) – Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is getting “much better” as he recovers from cancer surgery almost two months ago in Havana, Communist Party newspaper Granma reported yesterday. Castro, 86, spoke to reporters as he voted on Sunday in Cuba’s parliamentary elections: in one of his increasingly rare public appearances. He said he…
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Venezuela’s Chavez improving after tough cancer fight, Castro says
HAVANA (Reuters) – Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is getting “much better” as he recovers from cancer surgery almost two months ago in Havana, Communist Party newspaper Granma reported yesterday. Castro, 86, spoke to reporters as he voted on Sunday in Cuba’s parliamentary elections: in one of his increasingly rare public appearances. He said he…
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Bad report for the Caribbean on criminal defamation laws
VIENNA, CMC – The Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) Monday said that defamation laws remain widespread across the Caribbean that could even lead to imprisonment. IPI said that it carried out a comprehensive legal review of the situation in the region and that “every independent state considered geographically or culturally part of the Caribbean maintains some form of criminal defamation…
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CHAIRMAN UNDERSCORES HIGH VALUE PLACED ON CARICOM-CHILE RELATIONS
CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The high value that the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) places on its relations with Chile was underscored on Monday when CARICOM Heads of Government, Ministers and other representatives of Member States, and Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque held discussions with His Excellency Sebastián Piñera Echenique, President of Chile. In remarks at the meeting with President Piñera…
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ADDRESS BY MOST HON. P. J. PATTERSON, ON,OCC,OE, PC,QC “A CRI DE COEUR FOR CARICOM: LEST WE WITHER ON THE VINE” To ROTARY CLUB OF GEORGETOWN IN COMMEMORATION OF ROTARY WORLD UNDERSTANDING MONTH GEORGETOWN, GUYANA MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 2013
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) It is always a pleasure for me to be in the great city of Georgetown. My presence here tonight is due to the Rotary Club which does not accept no as a final answer when it calls. It has come persistently in many forms – resorting to the shock attack – by reminding me…
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CARIFORUM-EU High level Meeting – Joint Press Release
(Santiago de Chile, January 26th 2013) Caribbean and EU leaders attending the first CELAC – EU Summit in Santiago de Chile held a CARIFORUM – EU High-Level Meeting on January 26th, 2013. Participating from the EU side were President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy and President of the European Commission José Manuel Durão Barroso. Participating from the Caribbean…
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Saint Lucia hosts regional workshops on multilateral environmental agreements
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Four Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) will come under focus later this month when two workshops are convened in Saint Lucia to address harmonized reporting by Caribbean countries, and the use of Integrated Environment Assessment (IEA) tools for mainstreaming those agreements into national policy development. The workshops, funded by the European Union, are executed by…
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Brother: Chavez expected to return home
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — One of Hugo Chavez's brothers says the Venezuelan president is expected to return home from Cuba in the coming days as he continues to recover nearly six weeks after undergoing cancer surgery. Argenis Chavez is one of the president's five brothers and the president of the National Electric Corporation.
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