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The Mex Files (Free subscription) | yesterday
Per EFE (via Latin American Herald Tribune, Caracas): Jamaica’s foreign minister says his country should adopt Spanish as a second official language to foster expanded trade and cooperation with its neighbors in the Caribbean and Central America. Growing ties between the Caribbean Community and Latin America, the Dominican Republic’s desire to join Caricom and the fact that [...]
The Latin Americanist (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Some stories speak for themselves : Jamaica’s foreign minister says his country should adopt Spanish as a second official language to foster expanded trade and cooperation with its neighbors in the Caribbean and Central America. Growing ties between the Caribbean Community and Latin America, the Dominican Republic’s desire to join Caricom and the fact that Jamaica is surrounded by Spanish-speaking...
TakePart Social Action Network™ (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Barbados, West Indies, Caribbean With less than two months to go before COP15, the U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen, TakePart continues to cover a breadth of relevant and compelling topics. One topic of particular interest to me is how climate change is impacting small island-states. Nations like the Maldives, for instance are extremely vulnerable. Like many islands in Southeast Asia and the South...
Stabroek News (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Caricom Secretary-General Edwin Carrington says that he knows of no plans by the community or its secretariat to license journalists. Edwin Carrington The Secretary-General said he ...
Stabroek News (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
(Remarks at the commencement of the Second Special Consultations on the Caricom Single Market and Economy at Sam Lord’s Castle, St Phillip, Barbados, November 20-21, ...
Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is to benefit from an injection of Euro 165 million (US$244 million) in funding from the European Commission as part of its ongoing support for regional integration.
Kaieteur News (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
President of the Association of Caribbean Media Workers, Wesley Gibbings, yesterday stated that during a telephone conversation with the Caricom Secretary-General, Edwin Carrington, he was informed that the licensing of journalists has never been raised at any meeting of any official organ of the Caribbean Community. According to Gibbings, the Caricom Secretary General said he knew [...]
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
He pointed to a $9.5 million investment by KC Confectionery in a new automated production line and TYE Ltd's introduction of a state-of-the-art automated sheet metal fabricating system. He said that the companies demonstrated the tenacity needed to ride the economic waves of uncertainty and to contend with formidable competitors. With an average growth rate of eight per cent per year for the past seven...
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
LET me declare my interest: I've long supported Caricom and West Indies cricket. But anyone can see the writing on the wall unless they're wilfully blind. First, Caricom. Caricom has exhausted itself. Caribbean regionalism is not so much in retreat as it is irrelevant. Caricom leaders have absolutely no interest in regional integration other than what petty benefits each can gouge out of it. Most of...
Kaieteur News (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
…journalists decry move as means to muzzle press The Guyana Press Association (GPA) yesterday stated that it views with alarm, the draft Professional Services Bill being pushed by the CARICOM Secretariat for introduction within the CARICOM states. The proposed legislation seeks to regulate and licence several professions across the region, including that of journalism. While the draft [...]
What Really happened (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
from the title link Saint Kitts and Nevis welcomes multilateral approaches to achieve (1) nuclear disarmament in arsenals of nuclear weapons (2) prevention of nuclear proliferation .... Moreover we see clearly how nuclear power can be used to hold peace and security to ransom. It is in all our interest that there be a cessation of all nuclear weapon test explosions and all other nuclear cessations....
Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries can expect the first shipment of the HINI vaccine to arrive in the region in late November, as they prepare for further attacks from the virus known as swine flu.
Jamaica Gleaner :: Business (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
The Jamaican government has still not received the green light for the extension of a waiver of the mandatory 15 per tax on cement imported from outside Caricom's 15-member trade bloc, two weeks after the Council for Trade and Economic Development...
Stabroek News (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
The Caricom Secretariat said three agriculture ministries within the community are set to benefit from assistance to develop information and communication strategies to bridge the ...
Kaieteur News (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
The failures of CARICOM have become so notorious that talking about them incites more contemptuous laughter than lawyer jokes. And there’s probably no greater monument to these failures than the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), which was established in 2001 to replace the Privy Council as our regional judicial tribunal of last resort. Establishing the CCJ [...]
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