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EU continues to fund Caribbean projects

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Despite the economic difficulties in the Eurozone area, the European Union (EU) will continue to fund projects in the Caribbean, Christian Leffler, Director of Latin Ame

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EDITORIAL - CXC at 40: well done!

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Those who are wont to decry - and there are many - the quality and efficacy of anything formulated and executed in the Caribbean might give thought to the Caribbean Examinatio

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CARICOM Observer team in Nevis

CHARLESTOWN, Nevis, CMC – A four member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) electoral observer mission arrived here one day ahead of the Nevis Island Assembly elections to monitor the conduct of the po

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Premier, Opposition confident of winning NIA polls

CHARLESTOWN, Nevis, CMC – Premier Joseph Parry says his ruling Nevis Reformation Party (NRP) will win four of the five seats at stake in Tuesday’s Nevis Island Administration( NIA) even as his ch

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Prime Minister hints at naming date for general election soon

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has hinted that he is likely to name the date for the next general elections within a few weeks time.

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Opposition PNM sweeps THA polls

SCARBOROUGH, Tobago, CMC – The main opposition People’s National Movement (PNM) has won a landslide victory in the Tobago House of Assembly (THA), with preliminary results showing that the party

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Arrival statement of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) electoral observer mission of Nevis Island…

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was invited by the Government of the Federation of St.

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The unscrambling of the scramble for Africa

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua - Colonialism and its concomitant result, slavery, has been perhaps the worst episode in human history that demonstrates the inhumanity of man to man.

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Venezuela VP optimistic Chavez will soon return

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday that he's optimistic that Hugo Chavez will soon return to Venezuela following cancer-related surgery in Cuba.

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Cuba scrambling to contain cholera outbreak in Havana

Cuban authorities are scrambling to contain a cholera outbreak that has sickened dozens of people in Havana, the capital city of 2.2 million residents and a popular tourism destination.

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Remembering men of influence

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - TODAY WE REFLECT on the life and times of the Right Excellent Errol Walton Barrow, one of this island’s most important and influential leaders of the last century.

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Caribbean tourism players convene in in the Bahamas

PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas — Many of the biggest players in the Caribbean tourism industry have gathered here for the annual Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association’s Caribbean Travel Marketplace c

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EDITORIAL: A search for compromise

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - All Barbadians will breathe a huge sigh of relief now that there has been a settlement in the LIME dispute, and all parties at the negotiating table should be commended for

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Chen gives CXC thumbs up for entrepreneurship

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Wayne Chen, president of the Jamaica Employers' Federation (JEF), has welcomed the Caribbean Examinations Council's (CXC) plans to introduce subjects related to entrepreneursh

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CXC to beef up security BRIDGETOWN

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -THE CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL (CXC) is taking steps to reduce incidents of fraud.

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ALP leader to Vere Bird III: ‘Not on my ticket’

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Political Leader of the Antigua Labour Party (ALP) Gaston Browne has stoutly rejected the request by Attorney Vere Bird III to contest the next general elections on the ALP t

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Opposition leader called on to apologise to Speaker of the House

CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC-Attorney’s representing Speaker of the House of Assembly, Peter Foster, have demanded an apology from Opposition Leader Stephenson King over remarks in which he accused Fo

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Toward greater energy self-sufficiency

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - ONE of the things that we would like to wish for Barbados in 2013 is that the energy policy that is being put in place should start to bring substantial benefits for the is

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Government announces new measures to reduce expenditure

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC - Premier Craig Cannonier has announced a 50 per cent reduction in the fleet of official cars used by cabinet ministers as his new One Bermuda Alliance (OBA) administration

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