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Monday, April 20, 2015 from UT San Diego stories: Mexico & Latin AmericaThis photo gallery showcases images taken in Latin America and the Caribbean and published last week.
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Latin American Herald TribuneJesus Salas Aguayo, suspected of being the top leader of Mexico’s Juarez drug cartel, has been captured, National Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido said on Sunday.
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from BuenosAiresHerald.com
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Kaieteur News– APNU+AFC While the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) has been trying to convince the electorate that Guyana would return to dark days under A Partnership for National Unity +Alliance For Change rule (APNU+AFC), the coalition in...
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Latin American Herald TribuneThe cast of “The Beginning of Time” (“El comienzo del tiempo”), the latest film by Mexican director Bernardo Arellano, turned out on the red carpet at the Beijing International Film Festival on Sunday.
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Latin American Herald TribuneWashington is welcoming the financial honchos of the world with its cherry trees in full bloom and its gossip machine going at over 150 miles a minute. This year’s talk of the town is the relative reluctance so far shown by the U.S. to c...
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from BBC News - Latin America & CaribbeanA Swedish zoo is sending 10 rare baby Cuban crocodiles to Cuba to be released into the wild.
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Kaieteur NewsThe Environmental Protection Agency has said that the hike in the salary of Director Kemraj Parsram was justified. In a letter sent to Kaieteur News yesterday the agency said that “Mr. Kemraj Parsram, a young professional with significan...
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Kaieteur News- says former MP Vanessa Kissoon at women’s rally Former APNU Member of Parliament Vanessa Kissoon came out swinging during the APNU+AFC women’s rally on Saturday evening and her main target seemed to be the members of the People’s Progr...
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from BBC News - Latin America & CaribbeanKillings of environmental activists have risen by 20% in the last year, according to campaign group Global Witness.
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Kaieteur News- ten females slain Fifty people have now been murdered in Guyana in less than four months. The victims include ten females, according to statistics compiled by Kaieteur News. Three of the females were minors, while two of them were elde...
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Kaieteur NewsNew Amsterdam Kings continued their dominance of opposing teams when the Super Eight stage of the Berbice segment of the Guinness ‘Greatest of de Streets’ Competition continued on Saturday evening at the Stelling Tarmac. The semi-finals ...
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Latin American Herald TribuneThe prototype of a new deepsea exploration vehicle designed and developed in the University of Mayaguez’s Electrical and Computer Engineering department labs was successfully tested, its developers said on the weekend.
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Borderland BeatLucio R Borderland Beat Material from Valor Tamaulipco, VXT, BB (thanks "T) Nidia Tamez Lopez was found dead inside a Reynosa prison where she was incarcerated. She was arrested for her alleged involvement in the violence that clai...
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Kaieteur News- Executive Secretary Mustapha asks Berbicians to turn out in support As he riled up a large crowd at the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) rally yesterday at Estate Road, Albion Corentyne, Berbice, Executive Secretary, Zulifkar...
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Latin American Herald TribuneIn the next decade, six million youth will enter the Central American labor force.
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from MercoPressArgentine president Cristina Fernandez is leaving this week for an official visit to Russia and controversy over the agreements to be signed has erupted following the publication of a letter in a Sunday newspaper signed by a group of for...
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Latin America News DispatchTop Story — Mexico’s government on Sunday announced the arrest of the accused leader of the JuĆ”rez drug cartel, just days after apprehending the head of the Gulf cartel, an arrest which sparked an outburst of violence in the ...
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from South AmericaSANTIAGO, April 20- When Antofagasta Chief Executive Diego Hernandez took the stage at the world's biggest copper conference last week, he talked about the growing risks mining companies face from rising worker salaries in South Ame...
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Kaieteur News…claims it’s protecting its Prime Ministerial Candidate from disrespect By Kiana Wilburg Expressing fear of its Prime Ministerial Candidate Elisabeth Harper being subjected to ‘disrespect’, the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic has reje...
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Latin American Herald TribuneThe Ukrainian military command on Sunday accused pro-Russian militants of bombarding its positions with heavy armament, including missile launchers, which were ostensibly prohibited under the Minsk peace accord last February.
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Colombia News | Colombia ReportsThe US Army is investigating alleged sex crimes by soldiers and defense contractors, but they only make up a tiny percentage of Colombia’s overall sexual statistics within the conflict. The majority of Full Article » The post ...
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from BBC News - Latin America & CaribbeanVenezuela has received $5bn (£3.4bn) in Chinese funding for "development", Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says.
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from BBC News - Latin America & CaribbeanAs eight people die in a shooting at a fan club for Brazil's Corinthians football team, the authorities say football in the country is increasingly becoming linked to organised crime.
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from NYT > AmericasMexican officials said Sunday that they had captured a leader of the JuĆ”rez Cartel, JesĆŗs Salas Aguayo, the man in charge of the gang’s operations in Ciudad JuĆ”rez during the city’s most murderous periods.
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from BuenosAiresHerald.com
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from MercoPressA vice president of construction company Camargo Correa told Brazilian prosecutors that he paid 36 million dollars in bribes to officials of state-controlled oil company Petrobras, the press reported, citing a document prepared by prosec...
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Kaieteur News- but fails to address needs of Essequibians Failing to adequately address the needs of Essequibians, incumbent President Donald Ramotar instead used last Saturday’s Anna Regina rally as a launching pad for a scathing attack on the Stabr...
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from BuenosAiresHerald.comBy FermĆn Koop As Congress focuses on suspicious cash in HSBC bank accounts in Switzerland, there’s a place much closer to home that continues to be a favoured destination for local undeclared money: Uruguay.
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Kaieteur NewsBrassington wake up yesterday and de first thing that had to crass he mind is that when a dog got a bad name everything wha happen is that dog do it. He know that he got a bad name and that nuff things does fall at he door but he buss cr...
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from MercoPressThe United States Energy Information Agency once again capitulated on the myth that rig counts don't matter and the productivity of wells would largely offset, leaving the industry on a continuous path to higher output. The current conse...
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Colombia NewsColombia's state-controlled oil company Ecopetrol may farm-out some production assets as part of its effort to improve its portfolio, said Simon Gaviria, head of the National Planning Department. "It could happen this year if you recalib...
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Breaking news on Mexico - breakingnews.comMexican officials say they captured JesĆŗs Salas Aguayo, leader of JuĆ”rez Cartel - @nytimes
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from MercoPressChina's central bank is to cut its bank reserve requirement ratio by one percentage point. The People's Bank of China said that the new reserve requirement would take effect from Monday. The aim is to stimulate more lending into the nati...
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Kaieteur NewsA father of two is feared drowned after the boat that was manned by an unlicenced captain overturned at around 17.30 hours on Saturday at Batavia, Cuyuni. Up to press time relatives and the police were searching for the body of Ivor Hayn...
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Kaieteur NewsThe Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) made a proposal to both the Government of Guyana and Guysuco to upgrade the facility at La Bonne Intention (LBI), but they are still awaiting confirmation to proceed. This disclosure was made public by pres...
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Kaieteur NewsBy Leon Susaran “When they link up with the Military and come into your homes and start kicking the doors down and when they come after you, who is going to be there…?” -Bharrat Jagdeo PPP frontman in the election campaign, Bharrat Jagde...
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Latin American Herald TribuneA federal grand jury returned an indictment charging 53-year-old Victor Manuel Solis, a legal permanent resident living in Lancaster, CA, with making a false statement to El Paso FBI agents concerning an ongoing investigation and search ...
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Latin American Herald TribuneThe suspected leader of a gang that smuggled cocaine into Panama and other Central American countries using speedboats and small fishing vessels has been arrested, the Colombian navy said.
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Colombia NewsA ban on sales of alcohol and heightened securities greeted Panamanian voters Sunday as a frantic and factious three-year presidential campaign finally went to the voters. Supermarket magnate Ricardo Martinelli, 57, is the odds-on favori...
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Guyana Chronicle » TOP STORYAN UNPROVOKED attack on supporters of the ruling party last evening was vehemently condemned by President Donald Ramotar. “This is terrible. It is horrible and probably intended to drive fear into our supporters, but I am sure it will wo...
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Kaieteur News- lover on the run tells KN he’s innocent A 21 year old carpenter is on the run after allegedly luring his 18 year old girlfriend away from other partygoers at a Sunday morning Sophia dance, then stabbing her multiple times about the fac...
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Kaieteur NewsOwner of Patrick’s Taxi Service, Patrick Brasssington, has said that he is not in receipt of a contract to operate a taxi service attached to the Guyana Marriott. The denial followed the publication of a story to the contrary in yesterda...
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Kaieteur NewsBy Franklin Wilson Trinidad and Tobago’s Central FC aka the ‘Sharks’ continue to enjoy a dream debut season in the Caribbean Football Union Club Championship by trouncing Guyana’s top side Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United 3-1 win Group 1 at the...
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Kaieteur NewsThe Foreign Ministry office will be hosting the 2015 workers games on April 26 at St. Stanislaus ground from 12:00 hrs. Workers will compete in softball cricket, 3-a-side small goal football, dominoes, whist and athletics. Among the team...
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Kaieteur News…hopes its choice does not “tarnish the good relationship” it enjoys with Pegasus Hotel The Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) said yesterday that its decision to switch from the Pegasus Hotel to the “spacious” Marriott...
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Latin American Herald TribuneArmed men gunned down eight members of a radical fan group for Corinthians, one of Brazil’s most popular soccer teams, although police on Sunday ruled out linking the massacre to a fight among rival teams’ supporters.
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Latin American Herald TribuneA Mexican businessman kidnapped on April 11 was rescued and three suspects were arrested by police, Costa Rica’s OIJ law enforcement agency said.
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Latin American Herald TribuneThe Skansen Aquarium in Stockholm, Sweden, sent 10 Cuban crocodile hatchlings, descendants of a pair of the animals donated by Fidel Castro to a Soviet cosmonaut in the 1970s, to the Caribbean island this weekend, aquarium director Jonas...
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Stabroek News » Regional NewsHAVANA, (Reuters) – Two Cuban dissidents yesterday lost in their attempts to become the first openly declared political opponents to win election in Cuba since the 1959 revolution, each failing in races for the municipal assembly.H...
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Saturday, April 18, 2015 from The most recent articlesTHE LATE START of this year’s crop makes it something of a kadooment in the eyes of some experts. Patrick Bethell, chairman of the independent farmers group, and Dr Frances Chandler, a former senator,...
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Saturday, April 18, 2015 from The most recent articlesBARBADIANS have not stopped pursuing their dream of owning a piece of the rock. Current tough economic times have only made them more budget conscious. In fact, financing home purchases is a key area...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 from The New Today Newspaper GrenadaLast Tuesday’s election to fill a number of positions within the Public Workers Union (PWU) has given some pointers to the state of the politics on the island. The turn-out was rather disappointing given the fact that Grenada has c...
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Saturday, April 18, 2015 from Jamaica Gleaner :: Lead StoriesThe responsibility for preventing unfit meat reaching consumers is a shared one with several stakeholders required to play their part, but The Sunday Gleaner has found that many entities are falling down on the job and putting Jamaicans ...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 from The Trinidad Guardian NewspaperDouglas Mendes Published: Sunday, April 19, 2015 Much has already been said about the constitutional propriety of the motion of no confidence in the Leader of the Opposition which has now been dragging on and on in the House of Rep...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 from The Trinidad Guardian NewspaperPublished: Sunday, April 19, 2015 Please permit me to state from the onset, I have the greatest respect and admiration for the hard-working and diligent staff of the T&T Securities Exchange Commission (SEC). However, I also fai...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 from Caribbean News Now! Daily HeadlinesROAD TOWN, BVI -- The government of the British Virgin Islands is working to build the country’s infrastructure to a level that will enhance the quality of life for residents of the BVI. In the shadow of major development projects,...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 from The Trinidad Guardian NewspaperPublished: Sunday, April 19, 2015 I am very concerned about the entire screening process of the PNM. At first glance it appears as nothing more than a big farce. Even rejected candidate Dr Amery Browne expressed his disappointmen...
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Saturday, April 18, 2015 from The most recent articlesBARBADOS’ LONGEST ENVIRONMENTAL MURAL, with its more than 150 000 tile pieces, is well on the way to becoming the island’s most talked about and photographed attraction. But the unveiling ceremony...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 from The New Today Newspaper GrenadaThe media fraternity in Grenada is mourning the loss of the Technical Director at the Government Information Service (GIS), Hildebrand James who lost his life by drowning late Monday after a family excursion at Hope beach in St. Andrew S...
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Saturday, April 18, 2015 from The most recent articlesJALEAH HOYTE is one of the happiest teenagers alive today. From her sick bed at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, the 15-year-old expressed the desire to take a trip to Disney World. There was no magic...
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Saturday, April 18, 2015 from Jamaica Gleaner :: Lead StoriesWhile several wholesales in downtown Kingston are refusing to accept $1 coins there is no such problem in May Pen, Clarendon. However must request that shoppers count and parcel coins before tendering them for payment. "Please step out o...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 from The New Today Newspaper GrenadaThe Grenada Industrial Development Corporation has welcomed another Business Process Outsourcing operation at its Frequente Industrial Park in St George. Unique Vacations Limited, the state-of-the-art marketing centre for Sandals Resorts...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 from Caribbean News Now! Daily HeadlinesWILLEMSTAD, Curacao -- Venezuelan carrier Avior Airlines on Friday started operating flights twice a week between Valencia and Curacao and on the same day between Maracaibo and Curacao. Avior has been flying to Curacao since 2006 with fl...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 from The Trinidad Guardian NewspaperPublished: Sunday, April 19, 2015 Perish the thought that I am the arbiter of doom and gloom, but the ‘board walk’ may have to be boarded up until Chaguaramas can be easily accessed. If it is only on public holidays that visitors w...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 from Caribbean News Now! Daily HeadlinesWASHINGTON, USA -- Finance and planning minister, Dr Peter Phillips, says the Jamaican government is now on a drive to attract more US investors, particularly in the areas of tourism, business outsourcing operations, energy, port expansi...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 from Caribbean News Now! Daily HeadlinesGEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Secretary-general of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Irwin LaRocque has described as “important and historic” a working visit to the Secretariat’s headquarters by a team from the African Union Co...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 from Jamaica ObserverTEACHERS who have been trained under the Ministry of Education's Positive Behaviour Intervention System are being urged to drive change in beliefs, attitudes, and behaviours among students.
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 from Caribbean News Now! Daily HeadlinesBASSETERRE, St Kitts (WINN) -- Another former minister is questioning what is described as the slow pace of transition of the new Team Unity administration’s period of settling in, following the February 16 general election in St K...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 from Caribbean News Now! Daily HeadlinesKINGSTON, Jamaica -- In a bid to increase export of Jamaican goods and services, minister of industry, investment and commerce, Anthony Hylton, is leading 18 Jamaican companies on a trade mission to Cuba from April 20 to 23. Jamaica Prom...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 from Jamaica Gleaner :: Lead StoriesNotesMaster, an e-learning platform endorsed by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC), is set to launch a new and improved version later this year. According to Dean Dundas, co-founder and director of NotesMaster, "The new platform wi...
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Jamaica ObserverGENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) – The International Organization for Migration said Monday it had received a distress call from a sinking boat in the Mediterranean carrying more than 300 people, with at least 20 people reported dead.
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 from The Trinidad Guardian NewspaperDylan Kerrigan Published: Sunday, April 19, 2015 Writing about corruption from the petty to the massive in Africa, anthropologist Jean-Pierre Sardan proposed five behavioural logics to help explain why “corruption finds, in contemp...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 from The New Today Newspaper GrenadaSt. George’s University’s True Blue Campus was teeming with more than 1,400 secondary school students and young adults from all over the country on March 28 as they assembled for the 2015 SGU and Rotaract Club of Grenada (GRC) Career Day...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 from Caribbean News Now! Daily HeadlinesGEORGE TOWN, Grand Cayman -- The third round of migration talks between the government of Cuba and the government of the Cayman Islands took place in Grand Cayman on 16 – 17 April 2015. The delegation from Cuba was headed by Ambass...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 from The New Today Newspaper GrenadaPolice are on the hunt for a group of armed bandits who staged a movie-style hold up last Thursday night at the home of local supermarket owner and operator, Victor “Bread” Thomas at Hope Vale in St. George South-east and got away with ...
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Saturday, April 18, 2015 from The most recent articlesA FRESH LOOKING Grand Kadooment Day is set to be unveiled this year. Though plans have not yet been finalised, it could involve from bands starting inside the National Stadium to create a greater spectacle...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 from Jamaica Gleaner :: Lead StoriesSTATE MINISTER for Technology Julian Robinson was left blown away by the successful execution of the first staging of the Hacking Generation Y Hackathon, hosted by the Vybz Media Group, in association with other sponsors, at the Start Up...
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Monday, April 20, 2015 from Jamaica ObserverPORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – Trinidad and Tobago was jolted by an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.8 on Monday, the second tremor to affect the oil-rich twin island Republic within six days.
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 from Jamaica ObserverPhoto 1: Jamaica Observer advertising executives in the South/Central Region Suzanne Roper (seated) and Moya Whyte (second left forefront) were among Jamaica Observer staff at Belair High School in Mandeville recently to assist students ...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 from Jamaica ObserverFALMOUTH, Trelawny — Transport and Works Minister Dr Omar Davies says he has tasked the Port Authority of Jamaica with the responsibility to grow the business processing outsourcing (BPO) industry and position places like the histo...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 from Jamaica ObserverWAGE talks between the Government and the team representing 11 Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU) member bodies made little headway on Friday.
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 from The New Today Newspaper GrenadaIt is generally said the price of development is high. The need to balance development, such that the focus on short term benefits does not mask the long term economic, environmental and social costs, is a challenge for many countries. I...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 from The New Today Newspaper GrenadaNEW YORK – Grenada and creditors holding some US$200m of the Caribbean island’s defaulted bonds could announce a restructuring agreement as soon as today, according to two sources close to the negotiations. Bondholders are ex...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 from Jamaica ObserverMANDEVILLE, Manchester — The team behind the animated production Stoplight Hustle won six awards at Northern Caribbean University's (NCU's) Lignum Vitae Film Festival on Sunday, April 12.
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 from TRINIDAD - Featured NewsA few weeks ago a friend asked me to write about what causes fluid in the knee. I’m usually happy for topics, as I don’t always have one in mind. This is an interesting one, since it is something people often complain about, or through o...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 from Caribbean News Now! Daily HeadlinesST JOHN’S, Antigua -- The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) announced a 14-member squad on Saturday for the second Test against England, starting on Tuesday at the Grenada National Stadium. Commenting, head coach Phil Simmons said h...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 from Caribbean News Now! Daily HeadlinesFor two nations that are only 90 miles apart, for over 50 years the relations between Cuba and the United States were characterized by hostility, nuclear missile threats, terrorism allegations, economic warfare and open hatred for each o...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 from TRINIDAD - Featured NewsMRI stands for Magnetic Resonance Imaging and is a test that uses magnetism together with radio waves and the help of a computer to produce pictures of internal bodily structures like your prostate gland. Ultrasound on the other hand use...
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Saturday, April 18, 2015 from The most recent articlesSOME LICENCE PLATE makers agree that protocols should govern how they operate. Jeffrey Harewood, managing director of Supreme Signs, said he was in agreement with suggestions from Minister of Transport...
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Saturday, April 18, 2015 from The most recent articlesTHE 70 NIGERIAN students who were once stranded in Barbados, have finally begun full-time schooling. Two weeks ago they registered at the Barbados Institute of Management and Productivity (BIMAP) Wildey,...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 from Caribbean News Now! Daily HeadlinesHAVANA, Cuba (ACN) -- The US-based Boost Mobile telecommunications company, which is part of Sprint Corp., has launched a pre-paid phone service plan for US customers who want to call or send text messages to Cuba, following steps by Was...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 from Jamaica Gleaner :: Lead StoriesFOUR STUDENTS from Jamaica College emerged winners of the first Hacking Generation Y Hackathon held in Jamaica, with their creation of an app which aims to simplify the...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 from Jamaica Gleaner :: Lead StoriesA NEW report put out by the World Economic Forum has indicated that business management schools in Jamaica are ranked highly and are among the best in the world.The Global Information Technology Report 2015, titled 'ICTs for Inclusive Gr...
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Saturday, April 18, 2015 from The most recent articlesQUICK RESPONSE by members of the Barbados Fire Service contained a blaze to one home along Bank Hall Main Road, St Michael, at the corner of Advent Avenue last night. The main road was made impassable...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 from Jamaica ObserverFirefighters finish extinguishing a fire which razed two rooms of a house in Meadowbrook Estate, St Andrew, on Thursday. An elderly man, who was the sole occupant at the time, said he woke up to see smoke coming from the two rear rooms o...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 from Caribbean News Now! Daily HeadlinesSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Former Puerto Rico police officer Miguel Negron Vazquez was sentenced on Friday to serve 12 months and one day in prison for making a false statement to a Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 from Caribbean News Now! Daily HeadlinesPRINCE RUPERT BAY, Dominica -- A visiting single-handed yachtsman anchored in the south end of Prince Rupert Bay in Dominica was robbed at gunpoint late last month by two men, Caribbean Safety and Security Net (CSSN) reported. According ...
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Saturday, April 18, 2015 from Jamaica Gleaner :: Lead StoriesShe is now Senator Dr Angela Brown Burke - emphasis on doctor. Just last week, the veteran politician completed her doctoral work, and her accomplishment did not escape colleague senators when they assembled for last Friday's sitting of ...