BRIDGETOWN: Ronald Jackson is the new executive director of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA).   Jackson, the former director general of the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Managem
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Following Monday’s announcement that the Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will be asked to approve a US$900 million dollar facility for Jamaica, the World Bank and the Inter-American Development B
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PORT-OF-SPAIN: Lawyers for a Jamaican woman who claimed that their client was discriminated against because of her nationality when she travelled to Barbados two years ago have called for substantial compensation as closing argume
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PORT-AU-PRINCE: The Government of Haiti has launched the largest and most structured social assistance program in the nation’s history.   Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe said his government, under the leadership of Pre
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PORT-OF-SPAIN: As Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar awaits an official word from United States Attorney General Eric Holder concerning the facts and circumstances surrounding the alleged investigation involving his son, Daryan
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PORT-OF-SPAIN: Construction of the Eastern Caribbean Gas Pipeline is slated to begin in 2014 from the Cove Eco Business and Industrial Park in south-western Tobago.   The announcement followed a meeting between Tobago C
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ST. GEORGE’S: Grenada will hold a referendum in two years to decide on its relationship with the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Governor General Sir Carlyle Glean announced last week.   Addressing th
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BRIDGETOWN: Jamaican businessman Dave Cameron has been elected president of the West Indies Cricket Board, beating incumbent Dr. Julian Hunte in a close vote at the WICB annual general meeting in Bridgetown last week.  
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ST. JOHN’S: Vere Bird Jr., the elder brother of former Prime Minister, Lester Bird, has died. He was 76.   Bird Jr., the first son of the island’s first Prime Minister, Vere Cornwall Bird, died of pulmonary heart fa
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ST. JOHN’S: Representatives of Antigua & Barbuda expressed frustration with the U.S. over the lack of progress in resolving the on-going gaming dispute between the two nations at a World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting last
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