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The government of Barbados has been lauded for ratifying the United Nations Convention on Transnational Organised Crime. Canadian High Commissioner, Richard Hanley, highlighted the government’s recent move, noting that among the…
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In recent days, two major developments have injected new life into international action on climate change. At the G20 summit in Australia, the United States pledged 3 billion dollars and Japan pledged 1.5 billion dollars to the Green…
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A Cuban doctor on the frontlines of the battle against Ebola in Sierra Leone has tested positive for the virus, becoming the first Caribbean national known to have contracted the deadly disease. Dr Felix Baez,  a specialist in internal…
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At 24 meters tall and more than 14,000 sq ft, St. Kitts and Nevis has opened the largest greenhouse in the Caribbean region in a project described as “a dream come true.” That was the sentiment expressed by the Republic of China…
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John Francis was just 17 when he began fishing more than four decades ago. But these days, the 60-year-old fisherman from Praslin, on the east coast of the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia, finds it hard to make a living.…
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