News Releases on Caribbean Unity

• Friday, January 20th, 2006

  • Economic developments and activities ... this coming week in our past Full Story
    
    

• Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

  • Two to tango: US Caribbean relations. Full Story
    
    

• Monday, January 9, 2006

  • Slipe community major player in regional gun trade - police. Full Story
    
    

  • Tsunami warning system for Caribbean. Full Story
    
    

• Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

  • Welcome to Jamaica's wireless office -NIGERIAN-BORN marketing expert. Full Story
    
    

• Friday, December 23, 2005
  • Caribbean countries could turn the negative symptoms of migration into a positive by establishing "brain gain" networks for its Diaspora. Full Story
    
    
• Thursday, December 22, 2005
  
  • Residents of the Bahamas island of Bimini have reacted with shock to the deaths of 11 local people in a seaplane crash off Miami. Full Story
    
    
• Tuesday, December 20, 2005
  
  • PROVIDENCIALES, Turks & Caicos Islands: The Ministry of Housing of the Turks and Caicos Islands has announced the commencement of an affordable housing program on Providenciales. This program, dubbed "Quality Homes for All", is the first of its kind for the country. Full Story
    
    
  • The powerful political lobby of Cuban exiles based in Miami have got their way once again in worsening relations between the US government and the government of Cuba's President Fidel Castro. Full Story
    
    
  • BASSETERRE, St Kitts: Following their shock 26-24 victory over defending champions and regional giants Jamaica, Barbados captured the 2006 Caribbean Netball Association Jean Pierre Under-16 tournament when they made light weight of Grenada in the final round of matches at the Netball City, Warner Park last Friday. Full Story
    
    
• Thursday, December 15th, 2005
  
  • Jamaica and Cuba to exchange technical expertise in water and housing. Full Story
    
    
  • Goodyear factory to be converted into call centre. Full Story
    
    
  • JSE promises CSME assessment at January 17-19 conference. Full Story
    
    
• Wednesday, December 14th, 2005
  
  • Some of the world's poorest countries have struck an alliance with the G-20 group of bigger developing nations to strengthen their hand at the World Trade Organisation summit under way in Hong Kong. Full Story
    
    
  • With the planned merger of the domestic markets of several Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries just two weeks away, Edwin Carrington, secretary general of the grouping, is optimistic of successful implementation. Full Story
    
    
  • SUGAR is part of the Caribbean's history - from European colonisation through slavery and indentured labour to independence and efforts to build collective action across the region. That history is inextricably linked to the need to supply Britain with a tropically-grown commodity. Full Story
    
    
  • ON MAY 1,1807, the British Parliament passed a law abolishing slave trading in its colonies, ending almost 200 years of the transatlantic slave trade in the Americas. Two hundred years to the day, the Jamaican Government will recognise the milestone with a series of commemorative events. Full Story
    
    
  • WITH THE agenda of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) far advanced, Roy Johnson, executive chairman of the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE), is calling for increased discussion and analysis on how the regime will impact local and regional capital markets. Full Story
    
    
  • THE ACP are feeling increasingly marginalised and neglected, and are certainly more vocal than ever. I attended a G90 meeting in Brussels last week where they, clearly and unequivocally, emphasised the need for special and differential treatment for their small island, land-locked vulnerable countries. In Hong Kong, they will argue for better market access and for a recognition that their share of international trade is so small, in most cases, as to be irrelevant. Full Story
    
    
  • CHARLESTOWN, Nevis: Premier of Nevis Vance Amory issued a call to the youth in Nevis to take advantage of the opportunities being created by the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) for their empowerment and to recognise that they are the future of Nevis, a future that began now. Full Story
    
    
• Monday, November 7th, 2005
  
  • THE VALLEY, Anguilla: The working sessions of the 42nd Meeting of the Heads of Government of the 9-member Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) opens Monday on the tiny British dependency of Anguilla following the official opening ceremony on Sunday, at which the organisation's Chairman, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Anguilla's Chief Minister Osborne Fleming and the Secretary General of the OECS, Dr. Len Ishmael delivered addresses. Full Story
    
    
  • In 1989, 13 of the now 15 members of CARICOM decided on an integrated development strategy to chart their way into the 21st century. Full Story
    
    
• Friday, November 4th, 2005
  
  • While controversey swirls around the candidacy of Texas billionaire Dumarsais Simeus in Haiti's forthcoming general elections, the candidate says he would stamp out corruption if elected president. Full Story
    
    
• Thursday, November 3rd, 2005
  
  • CARICOM Secretary-General Emphasises Importance Of CSME Development Fund. Full Story
    
    
  • CARICOM Invitational Games Set for Trinidad 2009. Full Story
    
    
  • ST JOHN'S, Antigua: The advent of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME) will be a challenging proposition for the nation of Antigua and Barbuda. Full Story
    
    
  • Cuba repeated Thursday its willingness to cooperate with regional countries in disaster situations and rejected US interference disguised as economic help after Hurricane Wilma. Full Story
    
    
• Monday, September 26th 2005
  
  • Check out a news archive on everything Haiti.
    
    
• Thursday, September 15th 2005
  
  • A 5-6 year old clarion call from the masses of Caribbean Civil Society on the issues of social development. Full Story
    
    
  • In St Lucia's Valley of Discontent. Full Story
    
    
  • Did you know about Caribbean Country Music - Check out Chris Shannon's Caribbean Country Music.
    
    
  • CARLSTON BOUCHER - Describes the importance of tourism in making the economies of small island states outward looking. Full Story
    
    

• Saturday, August 13th 2005
  Hassle-free travel alone, says CSME Unit
  
  The locally-based Caricom Single Market and Economy (CSME) Unit has said that the Caricom passport allows Caricom nationals to travel "hassle-free" within participating member states. Full Story

• February 27, 2005 -Bustamante May 31, 1960 destroyed Norman Manley dream of the West Indies Federation as one body with a powerful voice on the world stage:
  
  published: Sunday | February 27, 2005
  
  The referendum was in both respects the same as an ordinary general election. The question put to the electors was: "Should Jamaica remain in the Federation of the West Indies?". The electors were required to answer yes or no. The symbols used on the ballot paper were the 'Tree' which was placed against the word 'Yes' and the 'Bell' which was placed against the word 'No'. The results were as follows:
  
• February 13, 2005-- CARICOM agrees on regional executive body
  
  published: Sunday | February 13, 2005
  
  "What you have now is the deepest form of integration outside the European Union and you want the decisions taken implemented," Dr. Gonsalves explained. "You couldn't use the existing administrative institutional arrangements; that is why we have to alter them," he further explained
  
• December 10, 2004 -- Jamaica initiates free movement
  
• November. 19, 2004 Fri. NEW YORK, N.Y.-- Barbados PM Urges Caribbean Americans To Influence Decision Makers in Caribbean
  
• November 21, 2004-- Call for one regional airline
  
   
  
• November 20, 2004--"Haiti cannot go at it alone. The time for action is long past due," Mr Latortue warned.
  
• October 28, 2004-- St. Vincent and the Grenadines - People are yearning for unification of the countries of the Eastern Caribbean and perhaps the wider West Indies... Parnell Campbell, Former Attorney General.
  
• October 12, 2004 -- British Virgin Islands seek Economic union with Eastern Caribbean countries OEC
  
• September 22, 2004
  Grenada Prime Minister Mitchell urges deeper regional integration
  
• Guyana Chronicle
  July 20, 2004 -- Requirements being put in place for Guyana-Brazil road

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