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Sunday, 12 October 2008 |
ST JOHN’S – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) chairman Baldwin Spencer on
Monday confirmed that the signing ceremony for the new Economic
Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Europe will go ahead next week as
planned, while hinting that Guyana may take part in the process.
With the EPA signing already set for October 15, Spencer disclosed that
efforts were continuing to ensure that the Bharrat Jagdeo
administration in Georgetown joins with other regional states in
penning its signature to the final trade document.
“I think there are some maneuverings which may very well lead to
Guyana signing on the 15th,” Spencer told the Caribbean Media
Corporation (CMC).
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PM Thompson watchful of global situation |
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Sunday, 12 October 2008 |
BRIDGETOWN - Prime Minister David Thompson says his eight month old
administration is closely monitoring the global financial crisis to see
what impact it may have on the Barbados economy.
“I believe that these are some of the most troubling times that have
descended on the world, with the potential to have significant impact
on other sectors of the economy in the United States of America, as
well as to traverse the Atlantic and the Pacific and have an impact on
the UK market, throughout Europe and potentially in parts of South East
Asia,” said Thompson, speaking on the floor of the Barbados parliament
on Tuesday.
As the House debated a more than Bds$50 million (US$25 million)
supplementary, Thompson noted that the impact of the crisis was already
reverberating around the globe.
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Préval calls for new standard |
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Monday, 06 October 2008 |
Addressing the General Assembly of the United Nations last Friday,
President Rene Préval of Haiti told world leaders break “the paradigm
of charity in our approach to international cooperation” and invest
instead in helping poor countries develop their own potential through
such steps as a genuine liberalization of trade.
Préval told the Assembly that charity has never helped any country
escape from underdevelopment. He however, at the same time thanked the
international community for its invaluable “surge” of sympathy in
rushing assistance and aid to Haiti, which experienced devastating
damages and loss of life after being impacted by four storms between
August and September.
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Put away the begging bowl |
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Monday, 06 October 2008 |
NEW YORK - Jamaica's Prime Minister Bruce Golding has issued a strong
rebuke to Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders, telling them to put
away the begging bowl that is symbolic of what he sees as shameful
attempts to get international assistance.
Many Caribbean leaders were in New York to attend the annual United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) that began last week.
Golding, who was also attending the meeting, said he was fed up with
the practice by some unnamed CARICOM leaders of begging for assistance
at every turn and called for this unsavory habit to stop.
He further scolded his colleagues for projecting the Caribbean as a charity case saying it is nothing short of demeaning.
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Minister, businessmen call for resumption |
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Monday, 06 October 2008 |
KINGSTON – A government minister along with some of the country's
leading business people have called for a resumption of hanging in
Jamaica to slap a lid on the island's growing murder rate.
Industry, Investment and Commerce Minister Karl Samuda made the call
for hanging to resume following the discovery of a body on Sunday
believed to be that of an 11-year-old girl, Ananda Dean, who went
missing nearly two weeks ago.
"I am not a big hanging fan, but I must tell you that we have to get
back to hanging to deal with some of these people," he said, shortly
after the body was discovered in the community of Cyprus Hall,
Belvedere, St. Andrew.
Samuda, the MP for the North Central St Andrew constituency, where the child lived, said he was torn up by the discovery.
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