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Venezuela: Chavez is responding to treatment

CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuela's government says President Hugo Chavez is conscious and responding to treatment for a respiratory infection at a Cuban hospital.

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Chavez, PetroCaribe and the health of the Caribbean

KINGSTON, Jamaica - The prognosis for the recovery from cancer of President Hugo Chavez is uncertain.

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Stanford receiver seeks court approval for interim payment to investors

DALLAS, Texas, CMC – The receiver for jailed Texas financier Allen Stanford’s assets has sought approval from a US federal judge for interim payment to swindled investors.

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Coalition partner backs Foreign Minister Dookeran for post of President

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Congress of the People (COP) party, the second biggest partner in the four-party coalition People’s Partnership government says it is backing Foreign Affairs Mi

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PNM Leads THA Race

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - A poll ahead of next Monday’s Tobago House of Assembly (THA) election is predicting a landslide victory for the incumbent People’s National Movement (PNM).

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Manage cement price

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Last Tuesday, Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) announced a rise in price on a standard 42.5 kilogramme bag of cement by 9.5 per cent.

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EDITORIAL: Switching to alternative energy

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Things are beginning to look very interesting in the alternative energy sector in Barbados.

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Barrow still has a presence

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Evidence of Errol Barrow’s influence continues to permeate Barbados and the Caribbean, Prime Minister Freundel Stuart told a thanksgiving service in memory of the Father of

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It is only a matter of time

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - WITH the heightened political activity currently on in Barbados, it seems only a matter of time before Barbadians get to know just when they will be going to the polls to e

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Outfoxed!

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has been outmanoeuvred by the opposition Barbados Labour Party (BLP) and is being forced to call a general election, three political scientis

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PM to give update on IMF discussions

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica government is expected to update the nation later on Monday “on matters related to aspects of the negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), acc

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St. Kitts looks to CARICOM for help on high-income status

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Prime Minister Dr. Denzil Douglas says he will look towards his Caribbean Community (CARICOM) colleagues to help St.

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Haitian students doing well

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Students from Haiti who took up hospitality studies here last year under a special scholarship programme say they are making good grades.

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Potential job opportunities in construction

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC- St Lucia’s Prime Minister, Dr.

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Renewed call for action in Haiti on third anniversary of earthquake

NEW YORK, CMC – As Haiti marks the third anniversary of the devastating January 12, 2010 earthquake, Caribbean American Congresswoman Yvette D.

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Haiti quietly marks quake’s 3rd anniversary

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- President Michel Martelly urged Haitians to recall the tens of thousands of people who lost their lives in a devastating earthquake three years ago, marking the disaster'

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Cuba called on to free American contractor

GENEVA, Switzerland, CMC – A branch of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has urged Cuba authorities to immediately free jailed US government subcontractor Alan Gross, claiming that

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Heat, Flood or Icy Cold, Extreme Weather Rages Worldwide

WORCESTER, England — Britons may remember 2012 as the year the weather spun off its rails in a chaotic concoction of drought, deluge and flooding, but the unpredictability of it all turns out to

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A Celebration That Accentuated an Absence

CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chávez is famous for speeches that last for hours, and Thursday should have been a special day for the loquacious socialist to let loose.

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