Ruling party calls for resignations, by-elections

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC - The ruling St. Kitts Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP) has called for the resignations of two former members from Parliament saying they have breached the contracts given to them by the people who voted them into office during the last general election here. “I think tha...
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Major credit rating agency revises Curacao’s economic outlook

NEW YORK, CMC - A major international credit rating agency has revised Curacao’s economic outlook from negative to stable. The Wall Street-based Standard & Poor’s (S&P) Ratings Service cited the government’s efforts in enhancing its financial situation as the reason for th...
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WICB president meets regional dignitaries

The president of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Dave Cameron has described a series of meetings he has been having with Caribbean prime ministers as "crucial" to the development of the sport in the region. Cameron's comments follow his latest round of meetings in which talks were held wit...
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Pyongyang’s quixotic diplomacy

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - The tension that has made the Korean peninsula a global flashpoint for much of 2013 appears to have subsided  with the toning down  of North Korea’s nuclear rhetoric directed at the South and the US and Pyongyang’s call last week for “senior level&rdq...
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Thousands Gather for Protests in Brazil’s Largest Cities

SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Protesters showed up by the thousands in Brazil’s largest cities on Monday night in a remarkable display of strength for an agitation that had begun with small protests against bus-fare increases, then evolved into a broader movement by groups and individuals i...
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Randle to get honorary doctorate from UWI

KINGSTON, Jamaica - BUSINESSMAN AND publisher Ian Randle is to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of the West Indies (UWI). He is to be conferred at the annual graduation exercise on the St Augustine campus of the university in Trinidad and Tobago in October of this year. A pioneer i...
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Parliament gives green light to dangerous dog bill

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Jun 18, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago parliament has approved legislation resulting in owners of dangerous dogs, such as pitbulls, facing a 10-year jail term and significant fine if the dog kills a person. Attorney General Anand Ramlogan, who piloted the Dog Control B...
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Universities facing dilemma?

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Have student support services become more complex? Or, has society, in its effort to remove the elitism of tertiary education, thrown out the reverence and thought which was formerly given to chosing a path of higher learning, leaving behind institutions which have become attr...
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Haiti reports first suspected H1N1 death in 2013

Haiti reported on Monday its first suspected death this year from H1N1 virus, reports reaching here said. The victim was from the small community of Nan Bannann in the southern city of Belle-Ansecity, 110 km southwest of the capital Port-au-Prince, the reports said. As local government said, the vic...
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EPA and trade issues dominate ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly

BRUSSELS, CMC – The Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the European Union and the African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of countries will be among matters discussed at the three-day ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA) that began here on Monday. Caribbean Forum (CARIFORUM...
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