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Sunday, January 04, 2009
Overcoming Smallness - Key to improving the lot of the Caribbean people
As the countries of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) enter a New Year, their greatest challenge is overcoming smallness.
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Sunday, November 09, 2008
Obama ran: Our children can fly
We have lived through a truly historic moment. The election of Barack Obama as President of the United States of America defied all odds and lifted the hopes and aspirations of people of all races and nationalities.
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Sunday, October 05, 2008
US economic bailout, A Caribbean lesson for integration
Against the backdrop of scientific and logistical achievement, the United States (US) economy remains in an unfortunately precarious state of financial flux.
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Saturday, September 27, 2008
World Financial Crisis will hurt the Caribbean
Events in the financial markets in the last few weeks portend a world of great uncertainty and instability that will have an adverse impact on the economies of developing countries, including those in the Caribbean.
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Fix CARICOM: That's the problem
Four Caribbean leaders signed a Joint Declaration on August 14 in Trinidad to achieve “the Single Economy by 2011” and “appropriate Political Integration by 2013” in the Caribbean Community.
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Sunday, August 17, 2008
EPA for whose benefit?
On September 2nd, some Caribbean countries will be signing an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU) which is not fair and may return Caribbean countries to a state of “plantation economies”
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Sunday, August 10, 2008
Eyes on the prize with a blurred vision
For many Caribbean leaders, keeping their eyes on the prize of tourism, has created for quite a number of them a case of blurred vision by not securing the whole prize -- their country.
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Monday, August 04, 2008
Tourism crime underscores Caribbean weaknesses
Tourism to Antigua and Barbuda has suffered a serious blow from the tragic killing of British doctor, Catherine Mullany, and the [subseqient death] of her husband, Ben, as they honeymooned at a hotel.
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Monday, March 03, 2008
Caribbean countries should be compensated for global warming
The Caribbean is a victim of climate change and yet no attempt is made to compensate the area for the damage being done to it by the profligate emissions of harmful gases by larger countries.
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Monday, February 25, 2008
Guyanese politicians failing the people
Opposing political parties in Guyana are in grave danger of failing the Guyanese people, writes Sir Ronald Sanders.
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