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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jun 9, 2009

  Confirmed H1N1 cases continue to impact Caribbean region

TORTOLA, BVI -- Sad news out of the Dominican Republic reports that a pregnant 17 year old tuberculosis patient who contracted the new Influenza A H1N1 virus died at a Santo Domingo hospital on Saturday 6th June. This was the first life in the Caribbean claimed by the virus formerly referred to...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 24, 2009

  The illicit drug trade

...with Nazma Muller Daurius Figueira is a social researcher who has spent the last 20 years investigating the illicit drug trade. His areas of interest are broad yet interlocking; politics, government, the illicit drug trade, the illicit gun trade, human trafficking in the...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 21, 2009

  Delirious dreams

Reflections of Fidel I could not understand the cause of the euphoria that some of the participants in the Port of Spain Summit are expressing. I made a great effort and read the famous Declaration of Commitment approved in that "Summit of the Americas." I had listened to the press...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 14, 2009

  Cubans say Obama move will help families

By Jeff Franks and Pascal Fletcher: HAVANA/MIAMI (Reuters) -- President Barack Obama's lifting of US curbs on family travel and remittances to Cuba will bring divided families closer and supplement stressed budgets on the island, Cubans and Cuban Americans said on Monday. On both sides of...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 9, 2009

  Trinidad government may lose billions on CL Financial bail out

By Oscar Ramjeet: Caribbean Net News Special Correspondent - Email: oscar@caribbeannetnews.com PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: The Trinidad and Tobago government may face problems in trying to recover the money being advanced in the bail out of CL Financial Limited, the Caribbean’s largest...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 25, 2009

  CLICO chief tried to raise funds by fire sale of assets

By Oscar Ramjeet: Caribbean Net News Special Correspondent - Email: oscar@caribbeannetnews.com: PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Three days after publicly signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) aimed at saving CLICO’s depositors and policyholders, Chief Executive Lawrence Duprey was...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 17, 2009

  Guyana gives PM CLICO documents

By CANDIA DAMES, Guardian News Editor - candia@nasguard.com: Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo has turned over documents to Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham he believes support his claim that CLICO Guyana has $34 million invested in CLICO Bahamas, Ingraham confirmed yesterday. The...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 14, 2009

  Judicial manager says CLICO-Guyana review will take another month

GEORGETOWN, Guyana: The Commissioner of Insurance in Guyana, Maria van Beek, said that the probe into the financial status of the CLICO (Guyana) insurance firm, hit by problems with its Trinidad-based parent company, will take about another four weeks but advised clients whose policies are still...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 13, 2009

  Oil-rich Trinidad forced to borrow more after CLICO bailout

By Oscar Ramjeet: Caribbean Net News Special Correspondent - Email: oscar@caribbeannetnews.com: PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: CL Financial’s crisis will force the Trinidad and Tobago government to borrow more this year to sustain its rescue of the cash-strapped conglomerate. Central...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 12, 2009

  More Questions Than Answers In CLICO Failure

By CANDIA DAMES, Guardian News Editor - candia@nasguard.com: The CLICO debacle has ensnared a wide range of countries across the region and has raised questions about whether regulators' early warning systems failed to detect the disastrous decision making that triggered a multi-nation...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 9, 2009

  CLICO fears shared by entire Caribbean

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA): On March 5, the shares of the great Citigroup, once one of the largest banks and companies in world, traded for only 97 US cents on the New York Stock Exchange. Unfortunately, this is not a unique situation. It has been repeated with many other financial institutions...... [view]

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