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PM Harris Receives Best Wishes From Across The Region
Basseterre, St. Kitts, February 20, 2015 (SKNIS): Prominent leaders across the region have extended congratulations to the new Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, Dr.
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Caricom
Bahamas PM urges continued IDB support for the Caribbean
NASSAU, Bahamas, Feb 20, CMC – Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie says Caribbean countries are still suffering from the effects of the recession but were continuing to put in place measures to e
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Caricom
St. Kitts-Nevis joins International Mother Language Day observance
A day aimed at developing a fuller awareness of linguistic and cultural traditions around the world as well as promoting unity in diversity and international understanding, through multilingualism
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Chikungunya thrives with climate variability in Caribbean
Jenny had gone to bed feeling well, but an hour into her sleep she suddenly awoke with a "stiff, cramping pain" behind one knee.
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Haiti’s President Michel Martelly tries to comfort relatives of the victims of the tragic carnival accident (Photo: President’s Office)
Haiti’s President leads ceremony to honour carnival accident victims
Haiti’s President Michel Martelly and Prime Minister Evans Paul led thousands of mourners in the country’s main public park on Saturday to honour the 16 victims of the carnival float accident.
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Caricom
Women’s issues in focus at Barbados forum
Directors and coordinators of the Women’s Gender Bureaux from Member States of the 
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The full Cabinet. Prime Minister Dr. Hon. Timothy Harris is 5th from left; Deputy Prime Minister Hon. Shawn Richards is 3rd from left; and Hon. Vance Amory , Senior Minister and current Premier of Nevis is far right (SKNIS photo)
New St. Kitts-Nevis Cabinet sworn in
St. Kitts-Nevis new Prime Minister Dr. Hon. Timothy Harris has announced a nine-member  Cabinet of Ministers  to administer the affairs of the twin-island Federation.
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Yilmaz Akyuz
OPINION: Developing economies increasingly vulnerable in unstable global financial system
In this column, Yilmaz Akyuz, chief economist at the South Centre in Geneva, argues that emerging and developing economies have become more closely integrated into an inherently unstable internatio
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PM Harris giving remarks at Swearing In Ceremony (photo via ZIZ)
PM Harris vows to ‘give his all’ for country
St. Kitts and Nevis’ Prime Minister Dr.
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Prime Minister of the Bahamas, Perry Christie
Three issues to measure CARICOM by
By David Jessop
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. Vice President for Export and Market Development at Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO), Robert Scott, highlights initiatives being undertaken to develop the local film industry, at a JIS Think Tank session
Jamaica can earn big from trillion-dollar film industry
News Americas Now, NEW YORK, NY, Monday, February 23, 2015: Vice President for Export and Market Development at Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO), Robert Scott, says the country can reap trem
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Guyana remains firmly with PetroCaribe
Ever since the inception of PetroCaribe in 2005, Guyana has remained firmly committed to the oil agreement.
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Prime Minister Dr. Timothy Harris
PM Harris Pledges a New Beginning For St Kitts and Nevis
Basseterre, St. Kitts, February 23, 2015 (SKNIS): Prime Minister Dr.
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Caricom
Gender, climate change in focus at sanitation workshop
The Global Environment Facility-funded-Caribbean Regional Fund for Wastewater Management (GEF-CReW) and the
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Prime Minister Freundel Stuart. (FP)
Barbados Prime Minister for CARICOM Inter-sessional Meeting
Prime Minister Freundel Stuart is scheduled to leave the island tomorrow, Wednesday, February 25, to attend the Twenty-Sixth Inter-sessional Meeting of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Communit
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President Donald Ramotar announces February 28 dissolution of Parliament
February 28 dissolution of Guyana Parliament – President Ramotar
I therefore wish to announce that earlier today I issued the Proclamations that identify 28th February, 2015 as the date of the Dissolution of the 10th Parliament
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Caricom
WICB hails Windies, Gayle’s landmark
The West Indies Cricket Board has extended sincere congratulations to Chris Gayle, following his amazing double hundred that prop
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People eat near the pool at the new Marriott hotel after the hotel’s opening ceremony in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015. Haiti’s second international-branded hotel opened Tuesday in what backers of the project and officials
Officials in Haiti celebrate completion of Marriott hotel
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- A second international-branded hotel opened Tuesday in the Haitian capital in what backers of the project and officials hope will be a spur to further economic develop
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