Aug 31
The Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines is accusing two US-based businessmen of colluding with the main Opposition Party in attempts to defame his country and destabilise his Government.
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Aug 30
A statement signed by five recipients of the Order of Caribbean Community has drawn attention to the threat to the suvival of the Caribbean Court of Justice caused by distotions in the media ofthe host country, Trinidad and Tobago.
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Aug 25
Address by Dr DeLisle Worrell, Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados, to the Barbados Economic Society (BES) AGM, Bridgetown, 30 June 2010.
Back in the sixties, when I began my career in economics, we were all too aware of the limitations of the discipline:…(but) Over the past 4 decades I have become increasingly dismayed as I have observed the economics profession being taken over by a generation of economists who have lost sight of the limitations of what they can know, with the help of the tools and techniques available to us…
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Aug 24
The fate of Caricom rests ultimately with the governments, who are called upon to face up to their historic responsibilties.
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Its Law Caricom needs, not a Committee Sir Ronald Sanders
Aug 16
In an open letter published today August 16, 2010 in the leading French daily Libération, more than 90 writers, academics and other world-famous personalities have publicly demanded that the French government return the 90 million gold francs extorted by France from Haiti after its Independence.
The letter is at: http://www.liberation.fr/monde/0101652216-m-sarkozy-rendez-a-haiti-son-argent-extorque
To read the letter with a list of the signatories, see: www.diplomatiegov.info. To see the hoax that did not amuse the French Foreign Ministry go the http://diplomatiegov.info/rubrique.fr-14-07-2010.html
Among the signatories of the open letter to Nicolas Sarkozy are the author Noam Chomsky of MIT, journalist Naomi Klein, writers Eduardo Galeano and Ariel Dorfman, professor at Princeton University Cornel West, the French philosophers Alain Badiou, Etienne Balibar and Jacques Rancière, and several members of the European Parliament, including the anti-globalization activists Jose Bove, Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Eva Joly. Members of the National Assembly of France and of Quebec, and Walden Bello, a writer and an elected member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines; have also signed the letter.
English text and signatories
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Aug 10
Documents of the Fifth Assembly of Caribbean People, meeting in Barbados, 3-7 August, 2010, ‘representing many of the Caribbean’s social movements of farmers, workers, women, artistes, students, scholars, youth, political parties, trade unions and non-governmental and community-based organizations in pursuit of a united Caribbean region’.
Declaration and Plan of Action
Resolutions
Farmers Caucus
Womens Caucus
Trade Industry and Transport
Health Security
Education
Drugs and Crime
Environment
Struggles of the Martinican People
Hemispheric Social Alliance
Aug 10
The Clement Payne Movement is requesting that the CARICOM Secretariat inform the Caribbean people whether the promised grant to the Haitan Government was ever made and if so, when it was made and how much money was donated…
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Aug 08
Barack Obama is the One Man with the Power to Prevent the Imminent Nuclear War, Fidel Castro
No Comments »At the beginning, only eight weeks ago, I thought there was no possible solution to the imminent danger of a war. …Fortunately, I did not take long to realize that there was one hope -as a matter of fact, a very profound one….One man, the President of the United States, will have to take this decision on his own…
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Mchel Chossudovsky on “Towards a World War III Scenario: The Role of Israel in Triggering an Attack on Iran“
Israeli Generals and Intel Officials Oppose Attack on Iran (but the chances of such a strike are better than 50-50)
Gareth Porter, IPS
Aug 04
The dialogue with Cuban authorities initiated by the Catholic Church and Spain has been successful. Indeed, after releasing prisoner Ariel Sigler in June 2010, who, for health reasons, chose to emigrate to the U.S., Havana has agreed to release, in the next four months, 52 of the 55 so-called “political” prisoners listed by Amnesty International who were arrested and sentenced in 2003 to long terms for being “association with a foreign power” (23 of the original 75 convicted have already been released)…
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See also Cuba and the Number of “political prisoners”, Salim Lamrani, Huffington Post
Aug 03
In this article, Mervyn Claxton develops the suggestion made in the closing paragraphs of his earlier article, A Flawed Thesis: the Inadequacies of Western Liberal Democracy, to the effect that Caricom should develop alternative modes of governance which are better suited to the region’s socio-cultural realities and that, in doing so, we should draw upon our ancestral African and Indian traditions. He argues that although the changes in modes of governance, which may emerge as a result of current or future national initiatives in that direction would necessarily differ from country to country, because of a shared history and a marked similarity in economic circumstances and geopolitical challenges, Caricom countries should be able to develop a regional governance paradigm capable of accommodating differences in national governance paradigms.
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