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St Vincent PM to speak at Peaceful Caribbean conference

Gonsalves St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves will be one of the featured speakers at the “Peaceful Caribbean Conference 2012: Focus on Solutions” to be held in Barbados on April 20, 2012. The conference is being put on by the Peaceful Caribbean Initiative, in conjunction with Caribbean News Now, and according to the organisers is an effort to highlight the increasing problem of crime in the Caribbean and to focus on enabling the region to regain its rightful place in the world as a peaceful and stable place. CLICK HERE TO READ FULL STORY

Legislator in Suriname sparks debate with anti-gay remarks

Asabina. Photo: Caribbean News Network A member of Suriname’s coalition administration Ronny Asabina, has called on the government of President Desi Bouterse to state its position regarding the legalization of gay marriages. Ronny Asabina’s remarks came after Social Affairs and Housing Minister Alice Amafo said that the government is implementing policies to create “strong and healthy families”. “How could this goal be achieved in a situation where gay couples are adopting and raising our children”, Asabina from the BEP-faction said, describing homosexuality as a “disease and a mental disorder.” CLICK HERE TO READ FULL STORY

Bense-native addresses Harvard Caribbean Law Conference

Rebecca Theodore Born on the tiny fishing village of Bense and a past student of the Portsmouth Secondary School, Rebecca Theodore is rapidly leaving her mark on the literary world as a brilliant writer and public speaker  and amassing a great deal of fame and fortune in the process. Speaking before an audience of students, alumni, professionals and law practitioners at the Harvard Law School in Boston MA last weekend, Ms. Theodore emphasized the concerns of democratic, educational, judicial, economic and security reform as the platform for political stability in the Caribbean as she addressed the second annual Caribbean Law Conference’s theme – Money, Power Respect: Economic Development in the Caribbean region.

Time has come to take stock, acting secretary general tells CARICOM leaders

Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite. Photo credit: Caribbean News Now GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The time has come for the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to take stock of its strategic direction as there was an urgent need for the regional integration movement to redound to an enhanced quality of life for its peoples. Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite, acting secretary-general of CARICOM expressed these sentiments in her address at the opening ceremony of the twenty-second inter-sessional meeting of the conference of heads of government of the Caribbean Community, in St George’s, Grenada. Drawing attention to the serendipity of CARICOM heads of government returning to the very room in which CARICOM leaders in1989 laid out the vision for the Community in the landmark Grand Anse Declaration and Work Programme for the Advancement of the Integration Movement, Applewhaite said that the challenges that faced the leaders then had come into “full view” 22 years on.

US Reconstruction Funds for Haiti

Meantime, the first portion of US reconstruction money for Haiti is on its way. More than seven months after the funds were promised, US officials say the American government will transfer US$120 million of the total amount pledged to the World Bank run Haiti Reconstruction Fund in the next few days.

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