Clinton Needs Texas Latinos to Bolster Her Faltering Candidacy
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Feb. 21 (Bloomberg) — Next to her gold medallion of the
Virgin of Guadalupe, Rosa Rosales of San Antonio wears a button
for the woman she considers another patron of Mexican-Americans:
Hillary Clinton.
The New [...]
Auction Debt Succumbs to BidRig Taint as Citi Flees (Update4)
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Feb. 21 (Bloomberg) — The collapse of the auction-rate bond
market, where state and local governments go to raise cash,
demonstrates that regulators are no match for Wall Street.
Hundreds of auctions have failed [...]
Crib sheet
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Hindi by podcastHarry Potter is faced with the realisation he is getting older. After his cousin Dudley pulls a prank on Hedwig the owl, the ensuing squawking drills through Harry’s hangover; enraged, the wizard turns Dudley into a replica of Michael Jackson’s nose. Meanwhile, Ron Weasley, swooning over his classmate Hermione, breaks in to a [...]
St Lucia to host education workshop
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By Anselma AimableCaribbean Net News St Lucia CorrespondentEmail: anselma@caribbeannetnews.com
CASTRIES, St Lucia: After a series of successful consultations island-wide, RISE (Respect Initiative Social Health Education) Inc will be hosting a two-day conference on February 26 and 27, 2008 in St Lucia. The purpose of the workshop is to finalise the proposal to the government of St [...]
OAS and UWI sign Memorandum of Understanding for course on democracy
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By Stephen Cummings Caribbean Net News Trinidad and Tobago CorrespondentEmail: stephen@caribbeannetnews.com PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad: The University of the West Indies St Augustine Campus in Trinidad (UWI) and the Organization of American States (OAS) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the creation of a course promoting democratic values and practices. The MoU between UWI and the [...]
OAS and UWI Open Campus sign memorandum for distance learning
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WASHINGTON, USA: The Organization of American States (OAS) and the University of the West Indies Open Campus (UWIOC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to help educators in the English-speaking Caribbean to promote democratic values and practices in their classrooms, schools and communities. Under the agreement — signed concurrently at the OAS in Washington DC [...]
OECS students take up French scholarships
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CASTRIES, St Lucia: On Friday January 11, 2008 the OECS Secretariat in Castries hosted a briefing session for seven students from Saint Lucia and Dominica, six of whom who left on Sunday January 13 to study in the French West Indies with a full scholarship, as part of the FORPROCARIB programme. This training programme comprises [...]
Educational opportunities for OECS nationals in the French West Indies
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CASTRIES, St Lucia: In order to show its dedication to strengthening the ties between the French Caribbean and the OECS, the University of the French West Indies and Guiana (Universit%26eacute; des Antilles et de la Guyane %26ndash; UAG) is offering a language training programme to new applicants from the OECS.
New medical school to open in St Kitts
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BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CUOPM): A new medical school is to throw its doors open in St Kitts in January next year. An agreement to charter and establish the University of Medicine and Health Sciences of St Kitts has been signed between St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas and Dr Robert Ross of [...]
Sales tax increase for schools advances
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A plan to trade property taxes imposed by school districts in favor of an increase in statewide sales tax gained the favor of most members of the House Revenue and Taxation Committee Tuesday morning.
And though four Democrats on the committee voted against the bill, it [...]
