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Ebola can thaw US-Cuba relations

Cooperation between Washington and Havana on the deadly Ebola Virus can potentially help to thaw relations between the United States and Canada. Earlier this month, a delegation from the United States Centers for Disease Control or CDC participated in high-level talks in Havana on how best to keep the disease at bay. Held under the auspices of the ALBA initiative, ...

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St. Lucia says pact with university will improve food security

San Juan, Nov 3 (EFE).- The government of St. Lucia will sign a memorandum of understanding with a university in Barbados to collaborate on projects of food security, biodiversity and exploration of natural resources. The Ministry of Sustainable Development, Energy, Science and Technology said in a statement that the goal of the agreement is to develop cooperation with the Center ...

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Food prices in Latin America, Caribbean rise 1.2 pct in September

Santiago, Nov 3 (EFE).- The inflation of food prices in Latin America and the Caribbean rose 1.2 percent last September, 0.4 percent more than in August and one of the highest rates for any category in 2014, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, or FAO, reported Monday. In its monthly report on prices, the FAO said that the price ...

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Britain pursuing closer economic ties with Cuba

Havana, Cuba (EFE).- Britain’s government said here Friday it is seeking to strengthen bilateral ties withCuba, particularly in the trade and investment area, within the framework of the European Union’s renewed interest in the island and the entire Latin American region. Hugo Swire, a minister of state for Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, made the remarks in the Cuban capital, ...

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Bahamas: Arrest of 76 migrants unconnected to new law

San Juan, Nov 3 (EFE).- Bahamian authorities said that the arrest over the weekend of 76 undocumented migrants was not connected with a new, stricter immigration law that took effect Nov. 1. The weekend detentions were a “routinary interdiction,” Foreign Affairs and Immigration Minister Fred Mitchell said in remarks cited Monday by TheBahamasWeekly. “From the time I became minister, there ...

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Caribbean News Desk: US authority rules in favour of Caribbean’ Queen Conch

Queen Conch fishers and exporting countries across the Caribbean can  now breathe a sigh of relief because there is no chance of the United States (US) banning Queen Conch from the region. That  according to the US’ National Marine Fisheries Service, which is an arm of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration or NOAA, on Monday informed the Caribbean Regional ...

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Grenada, Venezuela probe alleged kidnap of Grenadians

Grenadian police were up to Monday still working with their Venezuelan counterparts to probe an alleged kidnapping of five nationals of that Caribbean island. A police spokesman said that so far investigators have not come up with any concrete leads about how the men vanished and what might be the motive. A Grenada Police Force spokesman said that so far ...

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Anglicans robbed inside church at gun-point

Several parishioners of St. Phillip’s Anglican Church were Sunday morning robbed of cash and jewellery three armed men shortly before Mass was about to begin. “We were just about to begin our morning Mass…and I heard this shouting telling people give me what you have but we just locked ourselves in the vestry until they went away,” Father Oswald Barnes ...

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Guyana’s Speaker’s Mace not stolen; Opposition wants fixed dates for National Assembly’s reconvening

The Speaker’s Mace – his symbol of authority- is not stolen or missing, contrary to claims by House Speaker Raphael Trotman. Clerk of the National Assembly, Sherlock Isaacs told Caribbean News Desk that he removed the Mace from the Speaker’s Office Thursday afternoon but did not inform him due to a busy work schedule. “The Mace is right here. I ...

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Dominican Republic charges first person with terrorism

The Dominican Republic has for the first time charged someone for terrorism in connection with the torching of a subway car earlier this week that left 35 passengers injured. Twenty-one year old Franck Kelin Holguin was Thursday remanded  to prison for one year.  He is also charged with attempted multiple  murders. Dominican Today reported that he would have been paid ...

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