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As the General Manager of the Barbados National Petroleum Company makes a statement “on the ‘gift with strings' that is Petro Caribe, Notes From The Margin says: “The truth of the matter is that Petro Caribe does NOT help the Caribbean, it is NOT in the Caribbean’s best interest.”
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