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As Dominica prepares for general election on December 8,  police there have rejected the government’s latest pay increase proposal for the period 2012 to 2015. Neither the government nor the opposition United Workers Party (UWP) is making a satisfactory offer. The executive of Police Welfare Association (PWA) met with the representatives of the government on Friday. The offer was of ...

The Opposition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) is now calling for early general election, just hours after Opposition Leader David Granger insisted that he would not be talking with President Donald Ramotar on any issue unless Parliament is reconvened. The President suspended or prorogued Parliament on November 10 to prevent the opposition-controlled National Assembly from debating and passing a ...

Buenos Aires, Nov 21 (EFE).- Documents recently declassified by the Argentine government reveal diplomatic cooperation between Communist Cuba and the right-wing military junta that ruled the South American country between 1976 and 1983. The records, part of a batch of roughly 5,800 documents recently disclosed by Argentina’s Foreign Ministry, show exchanges of diplomatic favors between the government of President Fidel Castro, ...

United States President, Barack Obama’s Executive Order that will benefit almost 5 million illegal migrants is not going down well with many others including Caribbean nationals there. The order benefits millions of undocumented immigrants who are living in the United States for at least five years and have American-born children. They are protected from immigration agents and can even get ...

(Georgetown, November 20, 2014) The Ministry of Education wishes to advise the public that all public  schools in Georgetown will remain closed on Friday, November 21, 2014 to facilitate the sanitization of the facilities.  Meanwhile, schools in Regions 2, 3, and 5 with the exceptions of the Bygeval Secondary school will be reopened.  Parents and guardians of Region 4 (East ...

Sao Paulo, Nov 19 (EFE).- Brazil’s Butanta Institute scientific research center is negotiating an agreement with the U.S. National Institutes of Health to develop a serumagainst Ebola, authorities said Wednesday. The details of the accord were discussed in a meeting authorities from the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo held on Tuesday with the director of the Butanta Institute, Jorge Kalil, the ...

Caracas, Nov 20 (EFE).- Venezuela pledged at a Petrocaribe meeting here Thursday to continue supplying oil on favorable terms to member states despite a drop in international crude prices.Venezuelan Foreign Minister Rafael Ramirez, the former CEO of state oil company PDVSA, stressed at the opening of the gathering that the South American nation remains “firmly committed” to the initiative.Petrocaribe “is ...

San Juan, Nov 20 (EFE).- The Caribbean Community is implementing a Trade and Competitiveness information project to facilitate participation in the CARICOM Single Market. For the next five months, the initiative “aims to connect nationals with the information they need to work, travel and do business” in the region, according to a statement released on Thursday by CARICOM. The project ...

San Juan, Nov 20 (EFE).- The Caribbean Development Bank and the University of West Indies will commemorate in 2015 the centenary of the birth of late Saint Lucian economist Arthur Lewis, the Caribbean’s first Nobel laureate. Lewis’ work “continues to generate global interest, particularly in the field of development economics and with respect to the outcomes of institutions and nations which have ...

The Bahamas’ Foreign Minister prepares to brief the Organisation of American States (OAS) and the Caribbean Community (Caricom) on his country’s crackdown on illegal immigrants. Addressing the House of Assembly on Wednesday, he continued to fend off local and overseas attacks of the policy that has see mainly Haitians being rounded up, detained and deported. In an apparent response to ...