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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government, last week Friday, denied reports of an imminent coup as hundreds of workers and commuters made their way early of out of the city. Communications Minister Vasant Bharath in ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – The Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority is reporting a major reduction in landing fees owed by airlines. Deputy Director General Administration and Services at the Authority, Nichole Morgan, says the agency is no longer experiencing difficulty collecting ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – A regional workshop on the Nagoya Protocol began here on Monday with a senior official of the Guyana-based Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat urging countries to take measures to ensure that laws, policies and programs of action ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica has recorded an estimated growth of 1.6 per cent during the first three months of the year as compared to last year, according to figures released by the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ). PIOJ Director ...

By Ernie Seon Caribbean Correspondent  ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia CMC – An international conference has ended here with Caribbean delegates indicating that the region needs to do more to influence the discussion on food security, nutrition and making a case for ...

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti CMC – The Haitian government has warned protestors that it would adopt stronger measures against those who use street demonstrations to spread violence in the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM country. Justice Minister Jean Renel Sanon said ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – The police say they will lay a charge of manslaughter against a 56-year-old grandfather of a 17-month-old baby, who died in the back seat of his car after he forget to drop the toddler ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Concert promoters in Trinidad and Tobago are being warned that they should not pay funds to an individual posing as the authorized agent for incarcerated reggae star, Buju Banton. “A certain individual in Trinidad has approached ...

By Desmond Brown Caribbean Correspondent GEORGETOWN, Guyana (IPS) – Agriculture has always played an important role in the socioeconomic development of Guyana, one of just two Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member states that straddle South America. Agriculture accounts for more than 20 ...

By Rupert Johnson The mistreatment, harassment, and general denigration of females is not a recent phenomenon, it is as old as the inception of the human race. Although there has been concerted efforts, particularly in Western societies to curtail and ...