Haiti urges closer cooperation as ACS begins fifth summit

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Haiti welcomed delegates to the Fifth Summit of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) with Foreign Minister Pierre Richard Casimir, indicating that the event is essential in strengthening regional cooperation. Several Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries are...
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Nicholson to address Jamaican travel across CARICOM

KINGSTON, Jamaica - DECLARING THAT Jamaica is by no means satisfied with how the free movement of nationals across the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) region is being facilitated, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade AJ Nicholson has announced that the Government is gearing up to take the mat...
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Amnesty International critical of Haiti

Haiti PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – The London-based human rights group, Amnesty International, is accusing Haiti of violating international obligations after hundreds of people were forced to leave impromptu settlements that sprang up following the 2010 devastating earthquake in the French spe...
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Caribbean countries discussing healthcare associated infections

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – A three-day regional workshop on the surveillance of healthcare-associated infections began here on Tuesday with Health Minister Julius Timothy warning of the increased financial burden on governments to treat with patients hospitalised as a result of those infections. ...
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‘No backlash from Jack’

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said yesterday that she does not expect any backlash from her former top Government Minister, Jack Warner. In fact, the Prime Minister expressed confidence that Warner will continue to toe the party and Government line and do the right ...
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‘Trini’ politics and Jack Warner

KINGSTON, Jamaica - AUSTIN 'Jack' Warner, who on Monday felt compelled to quit as Trinidad and Tobago's minister of national security, following scathing findings of a CONCACAF-authorised probe, seems to be the kind of politician one could either easily admire or strongly dislike. His n...
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FIFA-CONCACAF: Warner bites the dust

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The storm that had been blowing and strengthening in the direction of Trinidad & Tobago National Security Minister Jack Warner’s direction for the last five years or so, has finally hit him with full force. The former President of CONCACAF’s resignation as ...
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Worrying signal from Mr Williams

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - t is rather worrisome that acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams should have chosen to fulsomely praise fired national security minister Jack Warner. “He has been an exceptional minister, and I want to put that on record,” Mr Williams told the media last M...
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World Bank team to visit next month

KINGSTON, Jamaica - A World Bank mission is expected in Jamaica next month to continue work on the new Country Partnership Strategy (CPS). The disclosure was made by Minister of Finance and Planning Dr Peter Phillips while speaking to JIS News in Washington, DC, on the outcome of the April 19-22 reg...
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T&T trade team off to Canada

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - As the Prime Minister begins the first full day of her official four-day visit to Canada today, a trade and investment mission facilitated by InvesTT and ExporTT will conduct a concurrent session from tomorrow. “From April 25-27, a delegation of Trinidad and Tobago se...
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