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James: 21st Century Pirates of the Caribbean: How the OECD Robbed 14 CARICOM Countries of Their Tax & Economic Sovereignty (TaxProf Blog)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:00:03 GMT

Vaughn E. James (Texas Tech) has posted Twenty-First Century Pirates of the Caribbean: How the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Robbed Fourteen CARICOM Countries of Their Tax and Economic Policy Sovereignty, 34 U. Miami Inter-Am. L. Rev. 1 (2002),...

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CARICOM advised on strategy for debt relief requests (Caribbean 360)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:00:51 GMT

Guyana's President Bharat Jagdeo has urged the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to craft a strategy to get the issue of debt relief for the region's countries on the agenda of the Group of Eight (G8) countries.

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CARICOM sets up $60 million fund to market tourism (Caribbean 360)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:17:22 GMT

Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government have agreed to set up a US$60 million fund which will be used for marketing the region's tourism as a diverse, single product.

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CaribCan negotiations set for September (Jamaica Gleaner :: Business)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:50:41 GMT

CARICOM and Canada have now settled on late summer to kick off the first round of negotiations on a new trade deal to replace CaribCan, with the Caribbean already signalling its plans to push for concessions for low-skilled workers under the pact on...

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The political fragmentation of Caricom (The BN Village)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:51:24 GMT

The political fragmentation of Caricom The political fragmentation of Caricom - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM After 35 years, Caricom is deep in the vortex of political fragmentation. The result, we believe, is a paralysis of economic integration and the restriction of regional co-operation to a minimalist agenda. The commitment to the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME) was never...

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Barbados: CARICOM at the Crossroads (Global Voices Online)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:34:13 GMT

As the CARICOM summit takes place, Barbados Underground discusses whether the region's leaders are up to the task of taking the Caribbean forward so that it could be competitive in the new world economy.

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CARICOM heads focus on tourism (Caribbean 360)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:29:01 GMT

Tourism will be the sole item facing the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) today as the working sessions of the 29th Meeting get underway.

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Jamaican dies in waiting room at Brooklyn Hospital (Caribbean 360)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:23:40 GMT

The release of security camera footage showing a Jamaican migrant left unattended after collapsing in a Brooklyn hospital has sparked outrage in the Caribbean community in New York.

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CARICOM Development Fund to be launched (Caribbean 360)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:22:25 GMT

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will tomorrow launch the much talked about CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) to provide financial and technical assistance to disadvantaged member states and sectors, as the region moves towards the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME).

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Economic concerns top CARICOM summit agenda (Miami Herald)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:39:03 GMT

At a time when the Caribbean is facing some of its toughest challenges -- high grocery bills, rising energy costs and airline cutbacks -- regional leaders opened a four-day summit here calling for a more stepped up, unified vision.

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Strong leaders needed - G o l d i n g (Jamaica Gleaner)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:26:51 GMT

Prime Minister Bruce Golding has urged his fellow leaders within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to display strong leadership in the face of what he has termed a "vortex of the worst global cyclone". Speaking yesterday during the opening ceremony of...

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Regional unity losing steam, critics say (Caribbean 360)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:27:02 GMT

Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders are gearing up for their annual summit, which starts here today, amid worrying signs that after 35 years, the regional integration movement has not progressed beyond a "community of sovereign states".

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CARICOM heads prepare to meet (Caribbean 360)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:43:31 GMT

Caribbean leaders will explore options for enhancing regional tourism in the current international climate, rising energy costs, achieving food security and mitigating rising food prices and climate change among other issues as they meet here tomorrow for their three-day 29th Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government Summit.

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CARICOM told to protect tertiary education sector (Caribbean 360)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:39:24 GMT

St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas said that given that one significant aspect of the WTO's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) is non-reciprocity, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member states are cynical about and resistant to this attempt by the US. (Photo: CUOPM)BASSETERRE, St Kitts, June 30, 2008 - St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas...

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CARICOM passport set for December (Cuba Journal)

noreply@blogger.com (Cuba Journal) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:33:00 GMT

Jamaica Gleaner published: Thursday | June 26, 2008 MINISTER OF Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Dr Ken Baugh, yesterday announced the introduction of a Caribbean Community (CARICOM) passport for Jamaicans by December 2008. Baugh, who is also the deputy prime minister, said the Government wanted to deepen economic ties with Latin America and Cuba. He said Jamaica would carry...

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Jamaican educator to receive CARICOM Award (Caribbean 360)

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:00:25 GMT

Jamaican educator, Professor Barbara Bailey, has been selected as the recipient of the Ninth Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Triennial Award for Women for her sterling contribution to national and regional development especially in the field of education and research.

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Boris right to sack race row advisor (Stephen Newton's diary of sorts...)

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:38:42 GMT

Sad to read that Cllr Bob Piper has been cowed into supporting James McGrath, who has been sacked as Boris Johnson’s chief political advisor after being recorded on tape saying of London’s African-Caribbean community: ‘Well, let them go if they don’t like it here.’ To be fair, McGrath may not quite have described the Caribbean [...]

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Round Table - Issue 396 (Serially Speaking)

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:30:00 GMT

Competitiveness and Caribbean Economies: Emerging Issues and Future Directions - Densil A. Williams; Peter Clegg Commonwealth Update - Oren Gruenbaum CARICOM: Some Salient Factors Affecting Trade and Competitiveness - Ramesh Ramsaran; Roger Hosein State, Institutions and Competitiveness: The Urgency of Institutional Capacity-Building in Jamaica - Wesley George Hughes; Sophia Whyte-Givans...

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Events for Thursday, June 19, 2008 (The New York Observer)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:02:33 GMT

10 a.m. City Council Transportation Committee hearing on the M.T.A.'s bus routes; Committee Room, City Hall. 10 a.m. Visiting Caribbean heads of government take part in The New York Conference on the Caribbean Community 2008; Brooklyn Marriott, 333 Adams St. 11 a.m. Ed Koch joins Bronx officials at naming ceremony for an affordable housing development; Sister Thomas Apartments,...

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Caricom's trade ties with the EU undermining its relations with the US -- (Trinidad Express)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:56:08 GMT

The third and perhaps most important loss is that the Caribbean in general, and the CRNM (Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery) specifically, was unable to take advantage of opportunities to deepen and expand the more important relationship with the United States.Â Chairman Rangel has now met several times with regional leaders since the Democrats gained majority in Congress in November...

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