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The results of a vote on ending the United States' blockade of Cuba are displayed at United Nations headquarters.
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Editorial | The Cuba UN vote

The seven Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries that resisted US pressure to vote against the UN resolution calling on America to end its economic embargo of Cuba are to be commended. They are: The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Grenada, St Kitts and Nevis, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and Suriname.

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Kristen Gyles | Life has lost its simplicity

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Janiel McEwan | The cost of running Jamaica: when fiscal discipline must become a way of governing

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