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Inter Press Service is a global news agency producing independent news and analysis of events affecting the economic, social and political development of peoples and nations especially in the south

LATIN AMERICA: Abortion - Still Illegal, Still Killing, Despite Growing Awareness
11 03 2010 CARACAS, Mar 10 (IPS) - Although most of the governments in Latin America today are described as progressive, abortion is only legal in one country, while in five countries it is banned under all circumstances, even when the mother's life is at risk.

HAITI: The Camp That Vanished
10 03 2010 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Mar 9 (IPS) - Perched near the top of a steep hill, the fractured pink walls of Villa Manrese overlook the rest of the capital city. Both ends of the three-story compound have collapsed, spilling into mounds of rubble. The first floor was pulverised into a layer of dust. There are still bodies inside.

TRINIDAD: Women Demand a Real Gender Policy
09 03 2010 PORT OF SPAIN, Mar 8 (IPS) - A few days after she created history by becoming the first woman to be elected as opposition leader and the leader of a major political party in Trinidad and Tobago, Kamla Persad Bissessar was kicking mad at the "misunderstanding" of the role of women and their contribution to society.

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Caribbean Net / Daily Headlines


Caribbean Net News is published by Cayman Net Ltd, a media publishing and communications company based in the Cayman Islands.

Madoff victims join Stanford investors to lobby for payback
11 03 2010

WASHINGTON, USA (Bloomberg) -- Victims of Bernard Madoff and accused Ponzi schemer Allen Stanford are banding together to lobby Congress for a law that could require Wall Street firms to pay billions of dollars to cover some of the losses they suffered. As the groups’ leaders walked the Capitol halls...

Private sector eyes opportunity in Haiti rebuilding
11 03 2010

MIAMI, USA (Reuters) -- Rebuilding Haiti after its catastrophic earthquake should generate major contracts for private companies specializing in construction, logistics, transport and security, but US executives say they need a clear reconstruction strategy to shape their business plans.

Cuba experiments with private retail enterprise
11 03 2010 HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters) -- Cuba nationalized all retail business in 1968, down to the shoe-shine shops, but in an attempt to stimulate the stagnant economy and reduce bureaucracy, it is experimenting with giving some of it back in a form of legal private enterprise. By leasing some retail services to state employees...

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Haiti presents Obama with$14bn vision of a rebuiltCaribbean paradise
11 03 2010 Washington - Haiti's President went to the White House yesterday with a vision of a Caribbean paradise waiting to be rebuilt after January's catastrophic earthquake - and a price tag that could rise to $14 billion (9 billion). President Prval and his

Brazil leader rapped forstance on Cuba dissidents
11 03 2010 Brasilia, Brazil -- Brazil's president came under withering criticism Wednesday at home and in Cuba for his deference to the island's communist government over political prisoners and hunger strikes for human rights. (Snip) Silva said hunger strikes

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