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IPS Inter Press Service - Caribbean

IPS, civil society's leading news agency, is an independent voice from the South and for development, delving into globalisation for the stories underneath.


07/04/2008 08:57 AM
CARIBBEAN: Regional Unity Losing Steam, Critics Say
ST JOHN'S, Antigua, Jun 30 (IPS) - Caribbean Community (Caricom) leaders are gearing up for their annual summit in Antigua early next month amid worrying signs that after 35 years, the regional integration movement has not progressed beyond a "community of sovereign states".
07/04/2008 08:57 AM
CUBA: The ‘Telenovela’ as Springboard for Public Debate
HAVANA, Jun 26 (IPS) - Months have gone by and he still receives suspicious calls on his cell-phone. Memories of a woman who became obsessed with him are triggered every time Chucho sees a popular prime time Brazilian TV "telenovela".
07/04/2008 08:57 AM
HEALTH-CUBA: Lung Cancer Vaccine Available
HAVANA, Jun 25 (IPS) - Cuba’s biotech industry plans to launch on the international market, in the short or medium term, a vaccine for treating lung cancer, which causes the deaths of over one million people a year worldwide.
07/04/2008 08:57 AM
POLITICS-CUBA: Past, Present and Future Changes
HAVANA, Jun 20 (IPS) - Cuba is paradoxically the same, yet not the same, under President Raúl Castro, who said he would change "everything that should be changed" to perfect the socialist path taken by the revolution nearly half a century ago.
07/04/2008 08:57 AM
CUBA: Cautious Response to Lifting of EU Sanctions
HAVANA, Jun 20 (IPS) - Cuba reacted cautiously to the announcement that the European Union would lift the diplomatic sanctions adopted after 75 dissidents received lengthy jail terms on charges of conspiring with Washington to destabilise the Cuban state, and three men convicted of hijacking a passenger ferry were executed, in 2003.
07/04/2008 08:57 AM
CARIBBEAN: "We Must Produce More and Consume Less"
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Jun 20 (IPS) - For the first time in living memory, Caribbean governments invested time and large sums of money to organise an emergency food summit at their trade bloc's headquarters in Guyana aimed specifically at dealing with the global food crisis and the region's spiraling import bill.
07/04/2008 08:57 AM
CUBA: Don’t Worry, Be Ready - for Hurricanes
HAVANA, Jun 17 (IPS) - Cuba has decided not to make public announcements of the overall outlook for the coming hurricane season, because it makes little practical difference to people’s lives and tends to create false apprehensions, said José Rubiera, regarded as this Caribbean country’s top expert on hurricanes.
07/04/2008 08:57 AM
MIGRATION: More and More Cubans Entering US through Mexico
MEXICO CITY, Jun 17 (IPS) - The number of Cuban migrants intercepted in Mexico climbed from 254 in 2002 to 1,359 in 2007. And nearly 1,000 were detained in the first four months of this year alone -- the visible face of a people smuggling business that apparently operates in collusion with the police and other corrupt authorities.
07/04/2008 08:57 AM
CUBA: Government Deports US Citizen Wanted for Child Sex Abuse
HAVANA, Jun 13 (IPS) - The Cuban government deported a U.S. citizen accused of sexually abusing a young girl in Costa Rica, less than two weeks after Washington included the Caribbean island on a list of countries that it says are not doing enough to combat child trafficking.
07/04/2008 08:57 AM
TRINIDAD: "There Are Monsters Among Us"
PORT OF SPAIN, Jun 11 (IPS) - Eight-year-old Hope Arismandez never stood a chance. The autopsy report said she had been stabbed repeatedly, hit on the back of the head with a blunt object and her throat slit.
07/04/2008 08:57 AM
CUBA: A City Drinks in Change
HOLGUÍN, Cuba, Jun 10 (IPS) - Afflicted for far too long by severe drought, which concentrated all minds on how to get water to entire communities of people, this eastern Cuban city seems at long last to be drinking its fill, and its appearance is completely different from what it looked like two or three years ago.
07/04/2008 08:57 AM
RIGHTS-US: Mixed Appeals Verdict for "Cuban Five"
ATLANTA, Georgia, Jun 6 (IPS) - Activists plan to protest a federal appeals court ruling Wednesday to uphold the convictions of five Cuban intelligence agents accused of spying in the United States.
07/04/2008 08:57 AM
HEALTH-CUBA: Free Sex Change Operations Approved
HAVANA, Jun 6 (IPS) - New horizons opened up for transsexuals in Cuba with the approval of a Public Health Ministry resolution that establishes guidelines for their health care, including free gender reassignment operations.
07/04/2008 08:57 AM
HAITI: Kidnappings Rise as Economic Woes Deepen
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jun 5 (IPS) - Several thousand people, including remnants of the wealthy and educated class who remain in Haiti, took to the streets of Port-au-Prince Wednesday to rail against what they say is government inaction amid a rise in kidnappings.
07/04/2008 08:57 AM
HEALTH-LATIN AMERICA: Tobacco Regulations as Solid as Smoke
MEXICO CITY, Jun 4 (Tierramérica) - Government funds to fight tobacco use in Latin America, which kills one million people each year, pale in comparison to the health costs of this epidemic and receive only a small portion of the tax revenues from the tobacco industry.

 

 
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