ST LUCIA: Compton not severing ties with China
CASTRIES, St. Lucia (CMC): The People's Republic of China Friday said that it was pleased with the announcement from the new Government of Prime Minister Sir John Compton that it intended to maintain diplomatic relations with the communist country.
ST LUCIA - Officials go bananas over market uptick
CASTRIES (CMC): Coordinator of the Windward Islands Farmers Association (WINFA), Renwick Rose, says those who have been announcing the death of the vital banana industry "have been stopped dead in their tracks."
GUYANA: Drive on to stem teacher recruitment
GEORGETOWN (CMC): Guyana plans to approach countries that recruit its teachers, to get them to halt the practice, says Education Minister Shaik Baksh. Baksh told legislators this week that he would "engage donor countries on the unfair recruitment...
TRINIDAD: Workers bid tearful farewell as BWIA era ends
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Scores of BWIA workers at Sunjet House, Port-of-Spain, on Friday packed their belongings into boxes and walked out of the building for the last time after they were served retrenchment letters last week.
CUBA: Castro not dying - US lawmakers
HAVANA (Reuters): Cuban government officials say that leader Fidel Castro is not dying, does not have cancer, and will return to public life, U.S. Congress members visiting the communist country said yesterday.
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