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		<title>Colombia says will not be provoked by Venezuela</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOGOTA (Reuters) &#8211; Colombia will not be provoked into armed conflict with Venezuela despite the neighboring country’s aggressive rhetoric and its dynamiting of two cross-border ...]]></description>
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		<title>Guyanese pair faces joint immigration charges</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/regional/11/21/guyanese-pair-faces-joint-immigration-charges/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Antigua Sun) &#8211; The 24-year-old Guyanese man who was convicted last month for uttering false documents to immigration officials is expected to be jointly charged ...]]></description>
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		<title>BBC Caribbean News in Brief</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/regional/11/21/bbc-caribbean-news-in-brief-78/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nine million added to poverty list 
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) says an additional nine million people have sunk into ...]]></description>
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		<title>Website targets Caribbean’s most wanted</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/regional/11/20/website-targets-caribbean%e2%80%99s-most-wanted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Trinidad Express) &#8211; Crime Stoppers International launched the Caribbean’s Most Wanted website on Tuesday night.
The launch took place at the Marriott Hotel, Port of Spain, and was ...]]></description>
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		<title>Another downgrade hits Jamaica</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/regional/11/20/another-downgrade-hits-jamaica/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Jamaica Gleaner) &#8211; Claiming Jamaica appears close to defaulting on its debts, ratings agency Moody’s Investors has downgraded the country’s local and foreign currency bonds ...]]></description>
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		<title>BBC Caribbean News in Brief</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/regional/11/20/bbc-caribbean-news-in-brief-77/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OECS discuss economic union
Leaders from the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) are this week furthering talks on plans to establish an economic union, at ...]]></description>
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		<title>EU set to cut tariffs on Latin American bananas</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/regional/11/19/eu-set-to-cut-tariffs-on-latin-american-bananas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/regional/11/19/eu-set-to-cut-tariffs-on-latin-american-bananas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[STOCKHOLM/BRUSSELS, (Reuters) &#8211; European Union trade  negotiators are within days of a deal to cut tariffs on bananas  imported from outside the African and Caribbean ...]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. says Venezuelan drug flights pose “challenge”</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/regional/11/19/u-s-says-venezuelan-drug-flights-pose-%e2%80%9cchallenge%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MIAMI, (Reuters) &#8211; Venezuela has shown little  interest in curbing the number of illegal flights hauling  Colombian cocaine from its territory for the United States ...]]></description>
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		<title>Chile Spence copper mine shut as strikers invade</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/regional/11/19/chile-spence-copper-mine-shut-as-strikers-invade/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/regional/11/19/chile-spence-copper-mine-shut-as-strikers-invade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SANTIAGO, (Reuters) &#8211; BHP Billiton halted operations  at its Spence copper mine in Chile after striking workers  invaded the installations, a company official said on  ...]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil aid program making inroads against hunger</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/regional/11/16/brazil-aid-program-making-inroads-against-hunger/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/regional/11/16/brazil-aid-program-making-inroads-against-hunger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TERESINA, Brazil, (Reuters) - Raimundo Alves used to  get his food by scavenging at a garbage dump on the outskirts  of Teresina, the capital of ...]]></description>
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		<title>Carnival Centre next on Manning’s list</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/regional/11/16/carnival-centre-next-on-manning%e2%80%99s-list/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/regional/11/16/carnival-centre-next-on-manning%e2%80%99s-list/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Trinidad Express)  Prime Minister Patrick Manning called the media to a meeting on Sunday night at the newly- commissioned National Academy for the Performing Arts, ...]]></description>
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		<title>New UK immigration policy could hit Jamaicans hard</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/regional/11/16/new-uk-immigration-policy-could-hit-jamaicans-hard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/regional/11/16/new-uk-immigration-policy-could-hit-jamaicans-hard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Jamaica Gleaner) Government officials are expressing concern about recent pronouncements from Britain aimed at further tightening its immigration policies. “We are very, very worried because ...]]></description>
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		<title>Peru pulls out of APEC summit over Chile spy case</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/regional/11/15/peru-pulls-out-of-apec-summit-over-chile-spy-case/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/regional/11/15/peru-pulls-out-of-apec-summit-over-chile-spy-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SINGAPORE (Reuters) &#8211; Peru will quit an APEC summit in Singapore after recalling its envoy to Chile over charges a Peruvian military officer had spied ...]]></description>
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		<title>T&amp;T officially in recession, says Williams</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/regional/11/14/tt-officially-in-recession-says-williams/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/regional/11/14/tt-officially-in-recession-says-williams/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago is officially in a recession.
Central Bank Governor Ewart Williams has confirmed what the business sector and the labour force have ...]]></description>
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		<title>Rape motion moved in parliament</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/regional/11/14/rape-motion-moved-in-parliament/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/regional/11/14/rape-motion-moved-in-parliament/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Antigua Sun) &#8211; The Lower House of Parliament met Tuesday evening to debate a motion in an effort to find answers to the recent increase ...]]></description>
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		<title>Cubans fret over food ration cuts</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/regional/11/14/cubans-fret-over-food-ration-cuts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/regional/11/14/cubans-fret-over-food-ration-cuts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HAVANA (Reuters) &#8211; Peas and potatoes have become the harbingers of change in Cuba as President Raul Castro chips away at some of the Cuban ...]]></description>
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		<title>BBC Caribbean News in Brief</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/regional/11/14/bbc-caribbean-news-in-brief-76/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/regional/11/14/bbc-caribbean-news-in-brief-76/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patent office recommended
Caribbean ministers have agreed to recommend one office for the region for issuing patents.
The decision was made at a meeting of Caricom legal ...]]></description>
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		<title>UN troops unable to leave Haiti any time soon</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/regional/11/13/un-troops-unable-to-leave-haiti-any-time-soon-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/regional/11/13/un-troops-unable-to-leave-haiti-any-time-soon-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAO PAULO (Reuters) - United Nations peacekeeping forces will not leave Haiti any time soon as the country, one of the world’s poorest, remains fragile, ...]]></description>
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		<title>BBC Caribbean News in Brief</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/regional/11/13/bbc-caribbean-news-in-brief-75/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/regional/11/13/bbc-caribbean-news-in-brief-75/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Cuba must make human rights gestures
The European Union’s development commissioner wants Cuba to show signs it’s serious about protecting fundamental human rights.
Karel De Gucht met ...]]></description>
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		<title>Cuba orders extreme measures to cut energy use</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/regional/11/13/cuba-orders-extreme-measures-to-cut-energy-use/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/regional/11/13/cuba-orders-extreme-measures-to-cut-energy-use/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HAVANA (Reuters) &#8211; Cuba has ordered all state enterprises to adopt “extreme measures” to cut energy usage through the end of the year in hopes ...]]></description>
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		<title>Windies could surprise Aussies says Williams</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/sports/11/12/windies-could-surprise-aussies-says-williams/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/sports/11/12/windies-could-surprise-aussies-says-williams/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – David Williams acknowledges the enormity of the task, but he feels West Indies can spring a surprise, and topple Australia in ...]]></description>
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		<title>Jamaica to get modern firearms tactical training unit</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/regional/11/11/jamaica-to-get-modern-firearms-tactical-training-unit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/regional/11/11/jamaica-to-get-modern-firearms-tactical-training-unit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Jamaica Observer) Government on Sunday opened tenders for the construction of a modern firearms tactical training unit at the Jamaica Police Academy in Twickenham Park, ...]]></description>
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		<title>National Academy for the Performing Arts a masterpiece &#8211; Manning</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Patrick Manning could not hide his feeling of vindication and national pride as he opened the TT$480 million controversial National Academy ...]]></description>
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		<title>IMF deal for Dominican Republic</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(BBC) The International Monetary Fund has approved a US$1.7 billion loan programme to help the Dominican Republic through the economic crisis.
In common with several Caribbean ...]]></description>
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