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Packed agenda for Caricom summit

Source: Guardian - Caricoms four-day summit this week will be the first opportunity for Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to interact with her regional colleagues since the May 24 general election victory.
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UN chief to attend Caribbean regional summit

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is expected to travel to Jamaica this weekend to attend a Caribbean summit and discuss regional efforts to achieve the social and economic targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a UN spokesman announced here Wednesday. Farhan Haq, the associate UN spokesman, told a daily news briefing that "the secretary-general will travel to Jamaica to attend the 31st Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), wh ...
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Caricom Summit: After the 'Dudus' saga --

WITH THE extradition of Christopher ’Dudus’ Coke to the US on Thursday behind him, after a month of gripping tension and spreading fear, Prime Minister Bruce Golding will settle down this week to finalising arrangements for his hosting of the 31st Caricom Heads of Government Conference that gets underway in Montego Bay next Sunday.
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Sceptical about Caricom --

It is time for a mature discussion on Caricom and Jamaica and the EU/Greece crisis can guide us. Caricom is Jamaica’s most costly overseas project. What do you know about it? Federation morphed into Carifta, now Caricom/CSME. I am ’Carisceptic’, as it hasn’t delivered economic growth and I don’t think it can. Jamaica is a global brand. Caricom is not, and for growth we must help our own first! Trinidad and Tobago is right to favour its industry and not give away its LNG. If we give away our bauxite, so be it. We need to chart our own growth path as they do.
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'At no time was PM expected to attend Caricom meeting' --

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar was not expected to attend the Caricom meeting in Barbados, which was attended by United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Foreign Affairs Minister, Dr Suruj Rambachan said yesterday.
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'An insult to people' -- Kamla tells why she decided not to meet Clinton at Caricom talks

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has blanked today’s Caricom meeting with United States Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, in Barbados because she felt it would be an insult to the people who elected her to travel without taking the parliamentary oath.
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Deep into CSME -- Recommendations by Barbadian ex-PM, Owen Arthur

TRADE AND economic disadvantages being experienced by the Less Developed Countries (LDCs) of the Caribbean Community pose a critical challenge for their full integration in Caricom’s Single Market and Economy (CSME).
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Tough Golding/Caricom choice --

JAMAICA’S opposition People’s National Party (PNP) yesterday tabled a parliamentary motion of no-confidence in Prime Minister Bruce Golding for his role in seeking to avoid the extradition to the US of Tivoli Gardens ’don’’ Christopher ’Dudus’’ Coke for alleged trafficking in drugs and guns.
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Caricom needs no crime advice from Manning --

I read in your newspaper that Ms Goopie-Scoon has stated that Mr Manning, is head of crime and security in Caricom, etc.
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Washington sees US$79M for security in Dominican Republic next year

NEW YORK.- The United States Government will contribute US$79 million in fiscal year 2011 to support public safety programs in the Dominican Republic and other Caribbean countries grouped in CARICOM, said the State Department’s International Programs Information Office in a statement yesterday.
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Diplomat Daaga -- PM: NJAC leader to get Caricom posting

TWO days after naming her Cabinet, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday appointed National Joint Action Committee Chief Servant Makandal Daaga this country’s Caricom Cultural Ambassador Extraordinaire.
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Caricom praises Kamla --

Caricom pledged its support to Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar for the continued development and well-being of Trinidad and Tobago.
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WIPA give $500,000 to Haiti --

Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Edwin Carrington received a cheque for TT$500,000 from president and CEO of the West Indies Players Association (WIPA), Dinanath Ramnarine for the CARICOM Haiti Relief Fund.
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Caricom observers hail 'free, fair, transparent poll' --

The Caricom Observer Mission has declared the May 24 general election ’free, fair and transparent’ and ’without fear and intimidation.’
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Observers give all-clear for Monday's polls --

CARICOM’S Observer Mission is satisfied systems are in place by the two main State entities, the Elections and Boundary Commission (EBC) and the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service, for Monday’s general election, Deputy Chief of Mission Dame Billie Miller said yesterday.
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Caricom observers fly in --

Retired international public servant, Guyanese Hugh Cholmondeley, has been appointed to head a 21-member Caricom mission to observe the Trinidad and Tobago general election on Monday.
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Serve Caricom's interest, not some other country's --

A row has broken out in St Vincent and the Grenadines over the possible candidature of that Caribbean territory for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council for the period 2011-2012, in opposition to Colombia.
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