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By Rickey Singh –in  Bridgetown WHEN THE Christmas holidays are over, citizens of some five countries of the Caribbean  Community would be faced with a series of parliamentary elections. Between this month and during next year, a quartet of of parliamentary polls are expected, plus a snap general election, likely before mid 2015.

By By David deGroot TO say that the current political situation in the country is in a state of chaos is an understatement.

– his revelation is merely a verbal ‘coming out of the closet’ by a perverted presidential hopeful  EXECUTIVE member of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Mr. Moses Nagamootoo last Tuesday made it pellucid that the AFC will collaborate with PNC/APNU and other bodies so inclined to remove the PPP/C Government.

December 1, 2014 is World AIDS Day 2014. And the UNAIDS Gap Report (UNAIDS, 2014) indicates that 19 million of the 35 million people living with HIV are unaware that they are stricken with HIV. The UNAIDS Executive Director Dr. Michel Sidibé in his World AIDS Day 2014 message talked about disintegrating the epidemic permanently.

OVER the past five years these articles I have on several occasions addressed the issue of Tolerance and will continue in the future. I recently saw a TV documentary addressing this issue. It follows the lives of several people of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds and explores how they interact with each other. The main

“WE will not be cowed by these sick terrorists,” said British Prime Minister David Cameron after ISIS produced a grisly video of the mass beheading of Syrian captives by foreign jihadis who allegedly included British fighters. “We will not be intimidated,” said Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper after the recent attacks in Montreal and Ottawa.

By Dr. Prem Misir DECEMBER 1, 2014 is World AIDS Day 2014, and the UNAIDS Gap Report (UNAIDS, 2014) indicates that 19 million of the 35 million people living with HIV are unaware that they are stricken with HIV.

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Analysis by Rickey Singh WHEN Caribbean Community Heads of Government meet with President Raoul Castro in Havana for the Fifth CARICOM/Cuba Summit on December 8, one outstanding non-agenda issue they have to resolve on the margins of their conference is reaching a consensus on the Community’s choice for a new Secretary General of the Commonwealth.

PRESIDENT Donald Ramotar’s contention that Government has never entered into talks with Opposition nor stakeholders with maximum positions is an understatement of the greatest proportions.