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 HOUSTON, USA (Reuters) — A plea agreement signed by Allen Stanford’s former top aide signals that more people in the wide-ranging $7 billion fraud case may face charges, a lawyer involved in the case said on Thursday. “Read the plea agreement language very, very carefully,” lawyer David Finn said. read more…
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HAVANA, Cuba (ACN) — With the use of modern technology in the national hospital network, Cuba has expanded perspectives for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s, a neurodegenerative condition that is the first cause of dementia. Memory loss and speech difficulties are the main symptoms of Alzheimer’s. read more…
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HAVANA, Cuba (ACN) — The Australia & New Zealand Bank Group, Ltd. (ANZ), of Melbourne, Australia, has had to remit $5.75 million for transactions that allegedly benefited Cuba and Sudan. Granma newspaper reports that, according to the US’ Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the violations were related to… read more…
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 GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA) — Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon, at a post-Cabinet media briefing on Thursday, emphasised that the Guyana government is shocked and in condemnation of the illicit involvement of Coast Guard ranks of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) in a $17 million river heist. read more…
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 WASHINGTON, USA — The Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) and Chair of the Haiti Task Force, Ambassador Albert Ramdin, joined the OAS Staff Association in a ceremony to handover a check to the Hope for Haiti Foundation, a Haitian NGO working in education and health care. read more…
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 KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) — The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is investigating the circumstances surrounding an attack on the Jamaican Consulate in Toronto, early Wednesday morning, which left minor damage. In a release on Wednesday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade stated… read more…
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| St Kitts & Nevis | |
 BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CUOPM) — British Airways brought in more than 4,000 passengers into St Kitts’ Robert L Bradshaw International Airport for the first half of this year, Minister of State for Tourism, Sports and Culture, Senator Richard Skerritt disclosed Wednesday. He said that the second scheduled weekly flight… read more…
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 BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CUOPM) — St Kitts and Nevis is currently negotiating Tax Information Exchange Agreements with several countries including the Nordic nations of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Denzil Douglas said his Government was also negotiating… read more…
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| St Vincent & the Grenadines | |
 KINGSTOWN, St Vincent and the Grenadines — A call has been made by Prime Minster of St Vincent and the Grenadines Dr Ralph Gonsalves for the Caribbean to support Antigua and Barbuda as it experiences a phenomenal decline in its economy. Dr Gonsalves made this plea to the region. read more…
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 ST THOMAS, USVI — Criminal Investigation Bureau Detectives on St Thomas have extradited one of the US Virgin Islands Most Wanted from Missouri to the Virgin Islands to face charges of Assault First degree. Stederoy Hurst was wanted in connection with an Assault First Degree that occurred on November 13, 2008. read more…source: caribbeannetnews.com
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| Antigua & Barbuda | |
 ST JOHN’S, Antigua — Addressing the country on Saturday, The leader of the opposition Antigua Labour Party, Lester Bird, said that the resignation of Wilmoth Daniel as deputy prime minister in the United Progressive Party government on grounds of no confidence in the Prime Minister speaks for itself. read more…
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HAVANA, Cuba (ACN) — The Fourth Cuba-Suriname Intergovernmental Commission concluded in Havana with the signing of several accords in healthcare, social welfare and agriculture. The agreements signed also include the framework for cooperation in high school and higher education,and sports. read more…
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA) — President Bharrat Jagdeo has reaffirmed the government’s position of maintaining a liberalised telecommunications environment in Guyana despite the “fairly decent” relationship which he said exists with the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) company. read more…
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 KINGSTON, Jamaica – Tough-talking Jamaica Prime Minister Bruce Golding says that his administration will not bend under pressure from threats of protest action by members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and workers at the National Water Commission. “This administration will not be bullied,” Golding said. read more…
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding urged the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to forge a unified approach to effectively address issues such as the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) and fallout from the current global economic crisis. Caribbean countries signed the EPA last year. read more…
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KINGSTON, Jamaica – Alcohol drinkers in Jamaica will not have to pay extra for their drinks after all. Finance Minister Audley Shaw had announced in his Budget Speech that the prices of alcohol would increase because of an increase in special consumption tax (SCT) on alcohol and cigarettes. read more…
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 KINGSTOWN, St Vincent — A small Beech 18 twin-engined aircraft caused the ET Joshua Airport on mainland St Vincent to be closed for a short period on Friday morning after it ran off the runway onto the airstrip and damaged the fencing. The aircraft had a lone occupant on board, pilot Colombian-born Jorge Pardo. read more…
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 PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — Trinidad and Tobago Opposition leader Basdeo Panday has expressed great concern at the number of road accidents and fatalities in the twin island republic. He issued a statement after six persons were killed within 48 hours and attributed most of the fatalities to the consumption of alcohol. read more…
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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — Trinidad and Tobago Chief Justice Ivor Archie said that crime is a national problem in the twin island republic and said that it must be fought at all angles. Speaking at the opening ceremony of a Symposium of the Crime and Justice Commission, the Chief Justice called for unity. read more…
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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — Speaker of the House of Representatives in Trinidad and Tobago Barendra Sinanan was forced to suspend the House on Friday afternoon following a clash between opposition leader Basdeo Panday and People’s National Movement (PNM) MP Colm Imbert for his comments. read more…
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ST THOMAS, USVI — New motorcycles, motor scooters and all terrain vehicles (ATV) were received by the US Virgin Islands Police Department last week in the two districts of St Croix and St Thomas/St John. The equipment was purchased from a $1,000,000 fund appropriated by the 26th Legislature. read more…
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — Venezuelan unions estimated that nearly 22,000 oil contractors stand to lose their jobs after President Hugo Chavez’s government seized the assets of 60 local and foreign-owned oil firms. “This law does not benefit us,” Bernardino Chirinos, leader of the Union of Oil Workers said. read more…
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GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: Placing the blame squarely on court stenographers, counsel for Cayman Islands Grand Court judge Priya Levers on Thursday told a three-man judicial inquiry into her professional conduct that the complaints against her were “totally without foundation”. 
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The 12th meeting of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Council for Foreign Affairs and Community Relations (COFCOR), which ended in Jamaica on Saturday, was said to be highly successful. Among the topics dealt with were the global financial and economic crisis. 
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — Queen Elizabeth will be in Trinidad in November for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), which is scheduled for November. Commonwealth Secretary General, Kamalesh Sharma, who was in Port of Spain making arrangements for the Summit made the announcement. 