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CARIBBEAN-AGRICULTURE-Regional countries to benefit from new IICA initiative

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, CMC – Caribbean countries are to benefit from a regional initiative that is aimed at providing first-hand information and generating up-to-date statistics on the degree stat

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Korea nukes

TOKYO, Japan (AP) — It's easy to write off North Korea's threats to strike the United States with a nuclear-tipped missile as bluster: it has never demonstrated the capability to deploy a missile

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Even in Death, Chávez Is a Powerful Presence

SAN FELIPE, Venezuela — Nicolás Maduro is certainly not the first political candidate to invoke the name and legacy of a dead leader to win votes.

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Bird slams late British PM

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Former Antigua & Barbuda Prime Minister Lester Bird believes that the late Margaret Thatcher was most befitting of the tag “Iron Lady” – a name she got for the way she op

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Bahamas pays tribute to late British prime minister

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas Monday joined the international community in paying tribute to Margaret Thatcher, described as Britain’s most dominant prime minister since Winston Churchill.

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Former Premier leads tributes to Britain’s Iron Lady

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC -- Former Premier Sir John Swan has led the tributes to Margaret Thatcher, the "Iron Lady" of British politics who died on Monday aged 87 following a stroke, crediting her

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Trinidad PM describes death of former British PM as “a profound sense of loss”

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar Monday described the death of Britain’s former head of government, Margaret Thatcher as “ a profound sense of loss”.

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Margaret Thatcher: economic transformation, political polarization

KINGSTN, Jamaica - MRS Margaret Thatcher, who secured her place in British history as the first and only female prime minister of Great Britain, died yesterday at the age of 87 years.

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EDITORIAL - Take Thatcher’s grit

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Whatever your view, good or bad, of Margaret Thatcher, the former British prime minister (PM) who died on Monday, there is no gainsaying that she was a transformative figure w

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Thatcher was Jamaican ally

KINGSTON, Jamaica - One of Jamaica's closest allies at the end of the Cold War in the 1980s was Great Britain under then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as the Conservative Party in that country

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Margaret Thatcher, formidable on many levels

She had the eyes of Caligula and the lips of Marilyn Monroe.

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Member of Royal family to visit Jamaica

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – A member of the British Royal family is due here on April 15 for a five-day visit, it has been officially announced.

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Looking for Usain

ST JOHN’S, Antigua - There are many pathways to fame and fortune and sport is one of them.

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One LIAT plane grounded in engineers’ dispute

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – LIAT staff told OBSERVER media on Monday that an ongoing industrial dispute between the airlines engineers and management did not affect the airlines flights from the VC Bird

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Trinidad to host Sustainable Tourism Conference

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC –Destination stability and competitiveness in the current global environment, are some of the issues that will be addressed at the upcoming Sustainable Tourism Confer

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Dominica launches ambitious water project

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Dominica Monday launched an US$7.4 million water upgrade project that the authorities said would benefit thousands of residents and consumers in the north, east and south

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Caribbean reaffirms commitment to cooperate on information society

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, CMC –The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) says Caribbean countries have reaffirmed their commitment to achieving targets set out in a plan of a

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New data shows US immigration initiative pays off for illegal Caribbean immigrants

WASHINGTON, CMC - New United States federal data shows that President Barack Obama’s immigration initiative has paid off for 454,000 young Caribbean and other immigrants who were brought to the U

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Investigations into the cause of death of hundreds of vultures

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - The Environmental Management Authority (EMA) says it is unable to identify any environmental reasons why more than 100 black vultures (Coragyps atratus) died in Wes

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