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President David Author Granger of Guyana and his Prime Minister, Moses Nagamootoo

Political Plotters and Players, the Caribbean can't breathe !

AS I was expecting an easy win for the Coalition at the March 2, 2020 elections, I wrote in this column that the APNU+AFC was heading for the “Triple Crown.” I had least expected an opposition plot to rig the polls, glaring evidence of which has not only surfaced at the recount of the ballots cast, but could taint the credibility of the elections on the ground of fraud.

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CARIBBEAN | Tourism contraction to plunge Region in deep recession says IMF

CARIBBEAN | Tourism contraction to plunge Region in deep recession says IMF

WASHINGTON DC,  April 30, 2020 - The IMF is maintaining that as Caribbean countries take strong measures to contain, such as border closures and lockdowns, to “flatten the curve” and contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus within their countries, the “sudden stop” in tourism is sharply slowing economic activity in the Caribbean.

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USAID gives Haiti US$16.5-M, Rest of the Caribbean gets US$1.7-M to fight COVID-19

USAID gives Haiti US$16.5-M, Rest of the Caribbean gets US$1.7-M to fight COVID-19

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – While Guyana and other Caribbean countries have received a generous donation of US$1.7 million from the USAID to help these countries respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, the government of Haiti has received funds amounting to a whopping US$16.1 million from the Trump administration to help in its COVID-19 response.

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Caribbean Export Commended for Support to Economic Partnership Agreement

Caribbean Export Commended for Support to Economic Partnership Agreement

BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS, January 24, 2020 -The Caribbean Export Development Agency has recently received commendation from  Head of the EU Delegation of the European Union to Barbados, Eastern Caribbean, OECS and CARICOM/CARIFORUM, Ambassador Daniela Tramacere, for the agency’s work involving the CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement or EPA.

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CARICOM Heads with Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, who met with CARICOM Heads of Government during the Thirty-Ninth Regular Meeting of the Conference in Montego Bay, Jamaica, in July last year.

CARICOM Marks 47th Anniversary of Relations with Cuba

GEORGETOWN,  Guyana, December 9, 2019 - Sunday the eighth of December marked the 47th anniversary of the historic establishment in 1972 of diplomatic relations betgween the Republic of Cuba and  Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, the four independent Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries at that time.

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Gaston Browne also denounced the “strangling effects” of the sanctions on Venezuela. | Photo: teleSUR

ANTIGUA | 'Climate Crisis Is About Our Existence': Antigua-Barbuda PM

On the sidelines of 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly currently happening in New York City, teleSUR met the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Gaston Browne to discuss the challenges and issues facing the Caribbean region, one of the most affected by the impacts of climate crisis, as it was seen with the devastation caused earlier this month in the Bahamas by Hurricane Dorian.

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