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N E W S Last updated: Sunday, July 1, 2007, 12:00am EST

	Dialysis Equipment on Way to Boost Island’s Health Care Delivery
	Wednesday, August 1, 2007
	Twenty one dialysis machines are to arrive in the island soon, to boost health care delivery. The machines, valued at US$315,000, have been donated by the Division of Nephrology and the Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University of Nashville, Tennessee.. [FULL STORY]

	Jamaica's Customs Program to be Implemented in Antigua & Barbuda
	Wednesday, August 1, 2007
	Jamaica’s US$2 million Customs Automated Services (CASE) solution is to be implemented in Antigua & Barbuda, under a tri-partite cooperation agreement signed between the Organization of American States (OAS) with the governments of Jamaica and Antigua & Barbuda. [FULL STORY]

	U.S. Congress Urged to Review Deportee Legislation
	Wednesday, August 1, 2007
	In her testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs’ Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere on Tuesday, July 24, Dr. Anne-Marie Barnes said that, of 345 deported persons interviewed, the majority were parents whose children in the United States face extreme hardships, both emotionally and financially. “Overall, 96% of parents had left their children when they were deported, and less than 20% provide any support for those children, who have become dependent on other relatives and welfare programmes for their primary means of support,” she explained, citing data from a recent study. [FULL STORY]