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Pollution Agreement for the Caribbean gains further support
United Nations Environment Programme
The Dominican Republic has become the latest country from the Wider Caribbean Region to ratify the Protocol concerning Pollution from Land-Based Sources and Activities of Marine Pollution known as the LBS Protocol.
UPDATE: St Lucia Says “Open For Business” Following Flooding
Caribbean Journal
St Lucia is “open for business” following heavy flooding that caused significant damage and at least five deaths in the country this week, Tourism Minister Lorne Theophilus said Thursday.
Turks & Caicos Islander reveals selective British prosecution on basis of race
Overseas Territories Review, Letter by J. Forbes to TCI News Now!
"No matter whatever happens now to try and rehabilitate what are self evidently racist prosecutions, a very large segment of the community will now never accept any convictions of the (British) SIPT (Special Investigation and Prosecution Team), particularly in a judge alone trial, as being the reflection of a fair or reasonable judicial process."
JetBlue Launches Service to Haiti
CARIBBEAN JOURNAL
Air carrier JetBlue launched its first-ever flights to Haiti on Thursday.
Caribbean Heads of Government to Make ICT a Priority
CARIBBEAN JOURNAL
CARICOM Heads of Government will be making Information and Communication Technology a major focus at their next Intercessional meeting, which is slated to take place in February.
Should Haiti Host the World Cup?
Caribbean Journal
IMAGINE the tiny country of Haiti as host to one of the world’s biggest events: the World Cup.
For now, it may all seem like fiction; however, if Haiti wants to be an emerging country by 2030, what could be more opportunistic to show the rest of the world that it means business than by throwing its name in the pool of possible hosts for the 2026 or 2030 World Cup?
Trouble in paradise – social division in the Cayman Islands
The Telegraph
The Cayman Islands might look perfect, and many expats have found happiness there. However, tension is bubbling under the surface, as our writer discovered.
IMF predicts more Caribbean economic woes
CAYMAN NET NEWS
The Cayman Islands and territories in the Caribbean area are still going to experience hard times, according to a new report by the International Monetary Fund.
St. Kitts & Nevis students among the increasing number of transfers at UVI
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, OCTOBER 12TH 2013 (CUOPM) – Nationals of the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis are counted among the increasing number of transfer students attending the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI).
St Vincent’s Gonsalves Urges UN to Apologize For Bringing Cholera to Haiti
By the Caribbean Journal staff
The UN needs to apologize for its role in bringing cholera to Haiti in 2010, St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves told the UN General Assembly on Friday.
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