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CDB President calls for resilience, transformation to drive Regional economic growth
Although grappling with challenges related to climate change; wide fiscal deficits and high public debt; as well as high unemployment, the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) today projected that the Region’s economy is expected to grow by 2 per cent in 2019. CDB President, Dr. Warren Smith shared the Bank’s forecast at its Annual News Conference, held…
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Former LIAT employee awarded US$1.55 million in age discrimination case
Virgin Islands Daily News – A former LIAT employee fired as a result of age discrimination was awarded $1.55 million in damages by a jury on St. Croix on Tuesday. “I think the message it sends is that there’s no place for age discrimination in the Virgin Islands, and LIAT fired a man who worked…
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New initiative to end political violence in Venezuela
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders have joined their counterparts from Mexico and Uruguay in formalising a plan to address the complex situation that relates to Venezuela, through an initiative called the Montevideo Mechanism. A statement issued by the Office of the Prime Minister in Trinidad and Tobago, noted that the initiative is a response to a…
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New oil discoveries in Guyana
Guyana Wednesday announced that the US-based oil giant ExxonMobil had made two additional discoveries of oil offshore Guyana building on the previously announced estimated recoverable resource of more than five billion oil-equivalent barrels on the Stabroek block. “This continues to be positive news for the people of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, but the real…
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Opposition protest, calls for general elections in Guyana
Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo, Tuesday led supporters of the main opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) in a demonstration near the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) calling for fresh general and regional elections, as the government made good on its plan to file an appeal against a High Court ruling that re-affirmed its downfall following a vote…
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Venezuela crisis: US sending aid ‘at Guaidó’s request’
The US says it is sending aid to crisis-hit Venezuela following a request from Juan Guaidó, the opposition leader who has declared himself interim president. Guaidó’s move last month won swift backing from the US and others but triggered a power struggle. Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro has accused him of mounting a coup and retains…
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Give Uruguay Meeting a chance to bring settlement to Venezuela crisis
By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Ambassador of Antigua and Barbuda to the United States and the Organisation of American States. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and at Massey College in the University of Toronto. The views expressed are entirely his own) The Heads…
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PM warns Caribbean could also be destabilised as a result of situation in Venezuela
Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne says the Caribbean should be careful not to be drawn into the ideological war unfolding in Venezuela where attempts are being made to remove the socialist Nicolas Maduro from office. “These people are fighting an ideological war. They believe that socialism in Venezuela would plunge the people into…
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Trinidadian judge Peter Jamadar to join CCJ bench
Justice Peter Jamadar is to be appointed Judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) by the Regional Judicial and Legal Services Commission (RJLSC). Jamadar will assume duty at the Court after Justice David Hayton retires from office in July 2019. Jamadar currently serves as a Judge of the Trinidad and Tobago Court of Appeal,…
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CARICOM issues statement on situation in Venezuela
The following Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) – Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago; Foreign Ministers of Grenada and Suriname; meeting by video-conference on Jan. 24, issued the following statement. “Heads of Government are following closely…