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Dominica PM fires embattled minister |
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Sunday, 23 November 2008 |
ROSEAU – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has sacked embattled Public
Works and Infrastructural Development Minister Ambrose George from his
cabinet.
The announcement came in a national radio address here on Tuesday night
in which the Prime Minister also revealed several other changes to his
16-member team.
George’s dismissal follows recent allegations of financial impropriety that have been leveled against him.
Although the Prime Minister did not make specific mention of any of the
charges made against George, he said it was important to protect
Dominica’s reputation abroad.
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Another school collapses in Haiti |
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
Following on the heels of the tragic collapse of a school in
Pettionville, Haiti, a second school building has partly falling in,
leaving none persons injured.
According to authorities, the school, Grace Devine in Canape Vert collapsed on Wednesday, during a class.
Two students were reportedly hospitalized with severe head injuries,
when seven others suffered minor injuries. Unlike the collapse in
Petionville on Friday, no one was trapped in the wreckage.
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Caribbean urged to repeal buggery law |
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
MONTEGO BAY - Two and a half decades after it was branded "the gay
plague", AIDS is again taking a toll on certain vulnerable groups
within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), one of them being men who
have sex with men.
Globally, homosexual and bisexual men are 19 times more likely to
contract HIV than the rest of the population and data released at the
8th Annual General Meeting of the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against
HIV/AIDS (PANCAP) in October shows that in this part of the world, the
HIV prevalence among that group is very high.
While data was not available for every member country, the available
statistics showed the Bahamas with a prevalence rate of 8.2 percent in
2007; Cuba - 5.2 percent in 1988 and 0.86 percent in 2007; Guyana – 21
percent in 2006; and Jamaica – from 9.6 percent in 1988 to 31.8 per
cent in 2007.
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CARICOM ready to meet with Obama |
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be seeking
early engagement with United States President-elect Barack Obama to lay
the foundation for improved US-Caribbean relations, CARICOM Chairman
Baldwin Spencer has said.
Spencer, who is also the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, told
the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) that the region welcomed the
presidential victory of Obama -- the first African American to be
elected to the White House.
“I think Obama has been able to capture the imagination of the entire
world and so it was clearly a wonderful feeling as I sat and watched
the returns and recognized that a new chapter in the history of the
United States was indeed unfolding,” Spencer said.
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Caribbean urged to repeal buggery law |
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
MONTEGO BAY - Two and a half decades after it was branded "the gay
plague", AIDS is again taking a toll on certain vulnerable groups
within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), one of them being men who
have sex with men.
Globally, homosexual and bisexual men are 19 times more likely to
contract HIV than the rest of the population and data released at the
8th Annual General Meeting of the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against
HIV/AIDS (PANCAP) in October shows that in this part of the world, the
HIV prevalence among that group is very high.
While data was not available for every member country, the available
statistics showed the Bahamas with a prevalence rate of 8.2 percent in
2007; Cuba - 5.2 percent in 1988 and 0.86 percent in 2007; Guyana – 21
percent in 2006; and Jamaica – from 9.6 percent in 1988 to 31.8 per
cent in 2007.
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