Speaker wants court ruling despite opposition withdrawing motion

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC – Speaker of the St. Kitts-Nevis National Assembly, Curtis Martin, says he is seeking a court ruling on certain legal matters despite public statements by opposition legislators that they have withdrawn a motion before the High Court regarding the motion of no confid...
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Trade Unions concerned about impact of economy on work force

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - The state of the economy will be the focal point of a meeting of trade union officials who have raised concern about how Government paid employees are coping. With a public sector wage freeze in place, the devaluation of the Jamaican dollar and the recent increase in toll ra...
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Freedom park to celebrate Mandela

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -The great South African leader and freedom fighter Nelson Mandela must be celebrated in life and in his ultimate departure of death. As such, Minister of Education, Science, Technology and Innovation, Ronald Jones, has asked that the Nelson Mandela Freedom Park, to be construct...
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Montserrat to host workshop to save endangered Mountain Chicken

BRADES, Montserrat, CMC– Local, regional and international stakeholders will convene on Montserrat on Tuesday for a four-day workshop to work on a strategy to save the critically endangered Mountain Chicken. The Mountain Chicken recovery programme workshop to be held at the Montserrat Nationa...
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Haiti sees big money reviving flagging tourism

MONTROUIS, Haiti (AP) — The Club Indigo beach resort north of the Haiti capital was crowded with U.N. peacekeepers, aid workers, diplomats and missionaries on a recent Sunday. But the only real, live tourists seemed to be Anne Fournier and her husband. The young couple from Montreal is a rarit...
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Local emergency services on full alert

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Local emergency services here have been placed on full alert as Tropical Storm Chantal races towards the Lesser Antilles. In preparation, the Department of Emergency Management plans to activate the emergency operations centre at 9:30 pm (local time) and also open C...
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Regional governments concerned over removal of President in Egypt

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) governments say they are concerned over the removal of the democratically elected president in Egypt and expressed the hope that democracy would be reinstated soon in the country. The regional governments who met in Trinidad and Tobago la...
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