ST. JOHNâS, Antigua, CMC â The Government of Antigua and Barbuda has announced that it will continue to benefit from the PetroCaribe agreement.
According to a Government statement, at the recently concluded 9th Ministerial Meeting of PetroCaribe and the Summit of Heads Venezuelan it was agreed that the PetroCaribe programme will continue in its current form .
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC â Guyana will host a multi-stakeholder consultation on Tuesday in preparation for the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Adviser to the President on Sustainable Development, Science and Technology, Navin Chandarpal, says participants will discuss various issues including the recommendations from the Barbados Programme of Action (BPOA) and that based on the outcomes of the consultation the national report will be prepared.
? KINGSTON, Jamaica - The World Trade Organisation (WTO) is now set to appoint a new director general. He is Roberto Carvalho de AzevĂȘdo, Brazil's long-serving ambassador to the organisation. His appointment is good news for developing countries insofar as Carvalho de AzevĂȘdo is from a leading developing country that has shown itself not to be averse to taking on the countries that have dominated the WTO. Those countries are the United States and the collective 27-nation European Union.
KINGSTON, Jamaica - Former Prime Minister P J Patterson, speaking at the launch of Ambassador Rudy Insanally's new book Multilateral Diplomacy for Small States, bemoaned the fact that people from Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries are no longer in top posts in international organisations.
Mr Patterson is quite correct on that score. But what is now important is to conduct an analysis of why this has happened.
In the past, Caricom citizens held top posts in international organisations, bringing the region much pride and the inevitable benefits.
TERRIBLE new forms of infectious disease make headlines, but not at the start. Every pandemic begins small. Early indicators can be subtle and ambiguous. When the Next Big One arrives, spreading across oceans and continents like the sweep of nightfall, causing illness and fear, killing thousands or maybe millions of people, it will be signaled first by quiet, puzzling reports from faraway places â reports to which disease scientists and public health officials, but few of the rest of us, pay close attention.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - A Miami-Dade police department bomb squad was called out to check a suspicious package yesterday afternoon outside the gate of a Caribbean Airlines (CAL) flight at Miami International Airport. Miami Airport and US aviation authorities grounded and searched CAL flight 483 after a ticking noise was reportedly heard coming from luggage aboard the aircraft, CAL chairman Rabindra Moonan said yesterday.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - One of the inescapable incidents of manâs inhumanity to man is the need for reflection on events which some of us would rather forget.
Slavery, in our case, and the Holocaust, in the case of the Jews, are two examples of such atrocities, but modern-day ethnic cleansing and the whole colonial experience also come to mind.
Two recent news items brought us face to face with this need to reflect, if only to ensure that we honour the contribution of our forbears.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Accompanied by their spouses, political figures, a present and former state enterprise chairman, two directors and a television personality are among the passengers who were upgraded from economy to first class on directives from vice-chairman of Caribbean Airlines Ltd (CAL) Mohan Jaikaran.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The placement of Barbados on a United States watchlist of intellectual property rights violators is being seen as a double-edged sword.
Barbados was put on the list this month, with the Office of the United States Trade Representative citing the ârefusalâ of local television and radio broadcasters to pay American entertainers for public performances of their music.
The CEO of the management of the Copyright Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Inc.
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC â Haiti is welcoming plans by the US-based carrier, JetBlue Airways to begin offering daily non-stop flights to the impoverished French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country.
Haiti's consul general in New York in a statement noted that JetBlue's service will help the local economy and give Haitian-Americans more opportunities to visit their homeland.
The airline says destinations in Latin America and the Caribbean make up nearly a third of its routes. It flies to more than 10 countries, including the Dominican Republic, Aruba, Barbados and the Bahamas.