CUBA: Ailing Castro sends New Year's message
HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): In a New Year's message, ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro said on Saturday he was recovering slowly from abdominal surgery and thanked his people for their courage during his recuperation.
UNITED STATES: New bill could benefit West Indian immigrants
WASHINGTON (CMC): The United States (U.S.) Congress is relying on the new Democratic majority in passing a bill that could put Caribbean and other illegal immigrants on a more direct path to U.S. citizenship.
BARBADOS - LIAT, Caribbean Star to merge in February
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): Barbados Prime Minister Owen Arthur says regional airlines, Caribbean Star and Leeward Islands Air Transport (LIAT), will merge on February 1. The Barbados government is one of three major shareholder governments...
GUYANA: Carrington predicts stronger regional ties
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Dr. Edwin Carrington, envisages a stronger integration movement in 2007, but stressed that this needed to be buttressed by greater sacrifices from the region's people.
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