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Govt taps $833m from Chinese
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Trinidad and Tobago is already beginning to put some $833 million of the US$3 billion in concessional loans from China to use.
Scientists continue “systematic” exploration of Caribbean
MASSACHUSETTS, CMC - A team of oceanographers and astrobiologists in the United States is continuing their “systematic” exploration of one of the deepest points in the Caribbean Sea, searching fo
Sino-Caribbean relations: Priorities and tradeoffs
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The visit to the Caribbean earlier this month by Chinese Leader Xi Jinping and the simultaneous announcement that the region would be the beneficiary of yet another huge tran
UN condemns forced eviction of families
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC - A senior United Nations official has expressed concern about ongoing illegal forced evictions and human rights abuses of families displaced by the 2010 earthquake.
Not up to mark!
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - A row may be brewing between Barbados and the Caribbean’s executive director at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
Countries slow to ratify Cariforum/EU EPA
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Political will is needed for all the countries in Cariforum and the European Community to ratify the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), British High Commissioner to T
ACP countries pleased with dialogue with European Union
BRUSSELS, CMC – African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries say they are pleased with the outcome of deliberations with the European Union (EU) on a number of issues including the European Deve
JMA to AJ Nicholson: ‘Step aside, minister’
KINGSTON, Jamaica - THE Jamaica Manufacturers' Association (JMA) yesterday told Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister AJ Nicholson to step aside or start singing a different tune on the trad
The ongoing trade deficit problem for T&T and Jamaica
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - THE RECURRING challenges of a widening trade deficit for Jamaica with Trinidad and Tobago featured again in the Jamaican senate last Friday but climaxed with an understandi
Caribbean Regional Aid for Trade Strategy launches in Haiti -
Turning market access into market presence What is Aid for Trade?
Top US officials call for closure of detention center in Cuba
WASHINGTON, CMC – After visiting the controversial Guantánamo detention center in Cuba, a top United States official and two legislators have called for its immediate closure.
‘Let Mandela Go’
JOHANNESBURG: South Africa prayed for Nelson Mandela yesterday as the revered peace icon faced a third night in hospital, with calls for the family and the nation to "let him go".
Nelson Mandela, 94, in Intensive Care
PRETORIA, South Africa - Nelson Mandela is intensive care as he recovers from a recurring lung infection.
Region mourns passing of leading agri-science expert
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -ACADEMICS in the region are today mourning the passing of Prof Emeritus Nazeer A Ahmad, who was one of the last associates of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture
EDITORIAL: Facing up to economic reality
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - THE RECENT notices of pending layoffs in the private sector will undoubtedly invite an aura of scepticism and concern among our working class population.
Jamaica, China Dreaming Together
KINGSTON, Jamaica - The Chinese people have always had the dream of the Great Harmony of all and longed for a beautiful society with noble virtue, material plenty, equality and equity.
Chinese eggs waiting to be hatched
KINGSTON, Jamaica - FROM the Government of China's point of view, the visit of President Xi Jinping to Trinidad to meet nine Caribbean Heads of Government was a great success.
‘Qatar City’ planned for Haiti after $20m pledge
Qatar has finalised the details of a development called ‘Qatar City’ being funded near Port-au-Prince as part of an aid pledge made by the Gulf state in the wake of Haiti’s devastating 2010 earth
Earthquake strikes, residents reminded to ‘drop, cover, hold on’
ST JOHN’S, Antigua – A 3.8 magnitude earthquake shook Antigua around 1:11 am yesterday and frightening many residents, including one from Buckleys who said, “it felt as if the house was being rip
