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As the Government of Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit gets ready to rename the Melville Hall airport in Dominica next week Monday after late Prime Ministers Roosvelt Douglas and Pierre Charles, the Douglas family is opposed to the move. They claim that they were not consulted and it is disrespect to Roosevelt Douglas who died in office in 2000. Pierre Charles ...

In Guyana where a no-confidence motion is hanging over the President Donald Ramotar administration, it is unclear when the National Assembly will meet again. Now that the two-month parliamentary recess is over, sectoral and select committees are continuing their work but the House is yet to meet. This, despite calls mainly by the smaller Alliance For Change (AFC) party for ...

The 15-nation Caribbean Community (Caricom) now has new fisheries policy, but the fishery laws of most member states are outdated. After several years of drafting and negotiations, the Common Fisheries Policy was adopted earlier this month at the Caribbean Week of Agriculture 2014 held in Suriname. Executive Director of the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism or CRFM, Milton Haughton says the ...

San Juan, Oct 22 (EFE).- Family and community discrimination against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in Jamaica has boosted the number of LGBT people living on the streets, according to New York-based Human Rights Watch. In its report “Not Safe at Home,” uploaded Tuesday to HRW’s Web site, the human rights organization warns that LGBT people are often ...

San Juan, Oct 22 (EFE).- The demands of the Caribbean Community, or CARICOM, for slavery reparation from Europe “do not strengthen the integration process” because they divert attention from priority issues, an expert told Efe on Wednesday. Ivan Ogando Lora, director of the Dominican campus of the Latin American College of Social Sciences, told Efe today that CARICOM should focus ...

The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) will once again ensure that Haiti has insurance coverage to limit the impact of catastrophic hurricanes and or earthquakes. The Barbados-based CDB says it is is providing a grant of USD2.5 million dollars to cover Haiti’s premium to the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) for the period June 1, 2014 to May 31, 2015. ...

Rio de Janeiro, Oct 22 (EFE).- Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, who is running for reelection, is three percentage points ahead of opposition candidate Aecio Neves in the latest voter intention poll conducted in the week before the runoff and released Wednesday.The head of state and candidate of the ruling Workers Party, or PT, was supported by 47 percent of the ...

Havana, Oct 22 (EFE).- A brigade of 83 Cuban health care workers departed for Liberia and Guinea Conakry to help in the fight to contain the Ebola virus as part of Havana’s contribution to the West African countries most affected by the epidemic, state-run media reported Wednesday.This is the second group of health professionals that Cuba has sent to Africa, ...

Senior government ministers are meeting in Montego Bay, Jamaica, later this week to discuss ways to unlock economic growth in the Caribbean region. The meeting from 23 to 24 October is being hosted by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the government of Jamaica. The issues to be discussed include the reliability and efficiency of energy provision and a tax ...

Rio de Janeiro, Oct 22 (EFE).- A Brazilian engineer has designed a machine capable of producing 5,000 liters (1,325 gallons) of drinking water a day by condensing humidity from the air and processing it to make it suitable for human consumption. Since 2010, Pedro Ricardo Paulino has sold 200 of his Wateair devices introduced to the markets just as the ...