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National pride must not override regional good

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - In 2011, when Caribbean Airlines (CAL) and Air Jamaica joined forces, the plan was that this “truly Caribbean airline” would efficiently serve the region and beyond as “

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‘Govts committed to CAL/Air Jamaica union’

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The government of Trinidad and Tobago and the government of Jamaica are committed to making the Caribbean Airlines/Air Jamaica arrangement work.

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Caricom
Former diplomat welcomes Canada’s deployment of peace keeping troops in Haiti

OTTAWA, Canada, CMC – A former Canadian ambassador to the United Nations, Paul Heinbecker, has welcomed the decision to send Canadian troops to Haiti as part of the peacekeeping mission on the Fr

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Caricom
World Bank gives Haiti US$20 million to tidy public records

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - THE World Bank has given US$20 million to Haiti for cleaning up its public resources and making them more transparent.

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Caricom
Haiti receives US$15 million policy-based grant from IDB

WASHINGTON, CMC – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has furnished a US$15 million grant to Haiti to support policy, legal and institutional reforms in the agricultural sector.

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Caricom
CARICOM crabs in a barrel

KINGSTON, Jamaica - WE have never for one moment deluded ourselves into believing that the signing of the 1973 Treaty of Chaguaramas -- that governs Caribbean Community (CARICOM) relations -- wou

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Caricom
CARICOM Foreign ministers on fact finding mission to Turks and Caicos

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) foreign ministers are to visit the Turks and Caicos Islands on a fact finding mission next week.

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Caricom
PLANS UNDERWAY FOR CWA 2013 IN GEORGETOWN

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Preparations are moving apace for the Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA) which will be held in Georgetown, Guyana in October.

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Caricom
Syria a complicated proxy war for U.S.

In Syria, the Obama administration seems to be stumbling back to the future: An old-fashioned proxy war, complete with the usual shadowy CIA arms-running operation, the traditional plan to prop u

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Caricom
Analysis: Rough honeymoon for Chavez’s successor in Venezuela

CARACAS (Reuters) - Wearing sports gear in the national colors and sitting on a sofa in a modest family home, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro holds a microphone, chats with locals and expound

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Caricom
Khan: Integrity Commission head will resign

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Prospective members of the Integrity Commission may not want to serve under the leadership of chairman Ken Gordon, attorney Israel Khan, SC, said yesterday.

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Caricom
‘SIDESHOWS’

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Lead investigator in the “emailgate” case, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Mervyn Richardson yesterday called for an end to what he described as the “sideshows” by v

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Caricom
Unions criticise coalition government, plan massive demonstrations

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Labour leaders Wednesday criticised the coalition People’s Partnership government of Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar describing it as a “spiteful and ruthless

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Caricom
Poverty and the minimum wage

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - At the end of last month, a high-level international panel, which had been meeting under the auspices of the United Nations to look at the world beyond the 2015 end of timeta

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Caricom
Late, but needed

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Although it is a case of closing the barn door after the horse has bolted, the Insurance Bill 2013 is a welcome piece of legislation which we hope will eliminate the pos

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Caricom
Coast Guard: South Florida relatives fueling Haitian migrant smuggling

Family members in South Florida are possibly behind a dangerous new trend in the Caribbean: the smuggling of undocumented Haitian immigrants from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico, a senior C

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Caricom
US Coast Guard helps seize 1,500 pounds of cocaine in Caribbean Sea

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, CMC – The United States Coast Guard along with the Royal Netherlands Navy has seized 1,517 pounds of cocaine, with a street value of about US$24 million, from a go-fast ves

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Caricom
Take charge of your health

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Health is unarguably the most important issue for any society. When health is impaired there is a reduced standard of life and, in some cases, a loss of life.

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