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Top Stories Tamfitronics At Cari­com’s end-of-sum­mit news con­fer­ence in Grena­da on Tues­day, chair­man and host Dick­on Mitchell spoke at length on a range of is­sues. How­ev­er, he cir­cum­nav­i­gat­ed the ele­phant in the room—the fraught pres­i­den­tial elec­tions in Venezuela two days pre­vi­ous­ly.Every­thing Mitchell ad­dressed is im­por­tant to the peo­ple of the re­gion. Hur­ri­cane Beryl and the need for “cli­mate jus­tice”—hav­ing the biggest con­trib­u­tors to cli­mate change pay for the dam­age done by it. The lat­est ef­forts to en­sure sta­bil­i­ty in Haiti.Mitchell spoke of the ini­tia­tive to re­duce the re­gion’s food im­port bill by 25 per cent by next year—an is­sue he tossed to his pre­de­ces­sor as chair, Guyana’s Pres­i­dent Dr Ir­faan Ali.We knew go­ing in­to that news con­fer­ence that Cari­com lead­ers had dis­cussed Venezuela—by then in the grip of se­ri­ous post-elec­tion un­rest—be­cause Prime Min­is­ter of St...