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January 27, 2010: Kingston (Panos) – At least one church leader in Jamaica is protesting aspects of CNN’s coverage of earthquake ravaged Haiti.

Reverend Garnet Roper, head of The Portmore Missionary Church in St. Catherine and former radio talk show host appealed to his congregation to publicly register their displeasure with CNN’s extensive coverage of those who died in last Tuesday’s earthquake on the international media houses’ website.

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January 26, 2010

Hon. Dr Denzil Douglas

Office of the Prime Minister

Basseterre

St Kitts

Dear Dr. Douglas:

The Antigua Labour Party is overjoyed with the decisive mandate for an unprecedented fourth straight term in office given to the St Kitts and Nevis Labour Party by an electorate that quite obviously understands and appreciates the successful socio-economic transformation that you have led with such distinction.

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(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is deeply distressed and shocked by the enormous loss of life and devastation wrought on its Member State, Haiti and in particular the capital, Port-au-Prince, by the powerful earthquake of Tuesday 12 January 2010.

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(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries have kicked into high gear their support towards Haiti in the aftermath of the powerful earthquake which hit the French Speaking CARICOM country on Tuesday January 12, 2010.

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(CNN) — A major earthquake struck southern Haiti on Tuesday, knocking down buildings and power lines and inflicting what its ambassador to the United States called a catastrophe for the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation.

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The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) is deeply saddened by the tragic loss of life and the extensive damage caused by the earthquake that hit Haiti yesterday. Our prayers are with the People of Haiti, all of whom must be deeply touched in one way or another by this tragedy.

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LaPlaine, the rural southeastern agricultural constituency, which has been represented by the UWP opposition leader, Mr Ron Green, for past fifteen years, was ‘ground zero’ in the recent Dominican elections. The Prime Minister pumped undisclosed huge sums of money into the constituency, airlifted Diaspora Dominicans and gave out handouts to voters in a vicious attempt to buy, win, steal or take the constituency and deliver a knockout punch to Mr Green.

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December 21, 2009

 

Hon. Hazelyn Francis

President of the Senate

Parliament Building

Queen Elizabeth Highway

St. John’s, Antigua

 

Re: Objections to Foul and Untruthful Claims By Senator Charles

 

Madame President:

            On Thursday, December 17, 2009, during the televised session of the Upper House, Senator Elmore Charles published several foul, untruthful and libelous claims concerning me which were broadcast for all to hear. The broadcast statements would subject Senator Charles to liability for slander did he not enjoy immunity against lawsuits for statements made in parliamentary debates. The object of the immunity is not to grant a license to abuse fellow parliamentarians; in fact, all parliamentarians are forbidden to impute bad motives to colleagues.

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Twitter has been hit by an embarrassing security breach.

A group claiming to be the Iranian Cyber Army managed to redirect Twitter users to its own site displaying a political message.

Twitter said the attack had been carried out by getting at the servers that tell web browsers where to find particular sites.

The site said it would start an investigation into what allowed the “unplanned downtime” to take place.

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