KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Nine men are expected to be charged on Friday after being held during a police raid of an underground factory in which fake Clarks shoes were being made. The police report that acting on information they ...
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Two Gay Men Murdered In Guyana; Suspect Kills Self
GEORETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The suspect in the murder of two homosexual sex workers early Sunday morning, committed suicide hours later in the day by setting himself afire. The suspect, Samuel Bristol, 31, doused himself with gasoline and set his ...
Read More »School Principal Takes St. Lucia Calypso Title
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – A commanding performance by school principal, Wulstan Alfred, stage name ‘Walleigh’, earned him his second Calypso King title at last Saturday’s calypso finals at the Beausejour grounds in the island’s north. Alfred scored 737 points ...
Read More »Jamaica Braces For The Worst As Drought Continues
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Water Minister, Robert Pickersgill has warned the country to brace for worsening drought conditions as the dry spell continues. In an address to the nation late Sunday, Pickersgill said the inflows into several large reservoirs were ...
Read More »Guyana Leads Sugar Production In The Caribbean
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC –The Sugar Association of the Caribbean (SAC), says Guyana was the lead producer of sugar in the region up to the end of June. According to the SAC, the year-to-date figure for sugar production is 499,272 tons. ...
Read More »IDB Allocates US$ One Million To Increase FDI In The Caribbean
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Caribbean Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (CAIPA) has been awarded US$ one million by the Inter-America Development Bank (IDB) to execute several projects over the next two years geared towards increasing Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) ...
Read More »Guyana Home Affairs Minister Reviewing Report On New Amsterdam Prison Unrest
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee has received the report from the Board of Inquiry set up to probe the May 23 unrest at the New Amsterdam Prison during which four prisoners were seriously chopped. During ...
Read More »Executive Director Of Jamaicans For Justice Resigns Amid Sex Education Controversy
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The controversy surrounding a sex-education programme in six children’s homes has led to another casualty with the resignation of Kay Osborne, the Executive Director of local human rights watchdog, Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ). Osborne, in a ...
Read More »Caribbean Grapples With Intense New Cycles Of Flooding And Drought
By Desmond Brown Caribbean Correspondent CASTRIES, St. Lucia, (IPS) – As unpredictable weather patterns impact water availability and quality in St. Lucia, the Caribbean island is moving to build resilience to climate-related stresses in its water sector. Dr. Paulette Bynoe, a ...
Read More »Grenadian-Canadian Author Chronicles Immigrant Experiences
By Lincoln Depradine Pride Contributing Writer “The Tears In Their Laughter’’, a new novel, chronicles the experiences of Grenadian and other Caribbean students attending St Francis Xavier University (St FX) in Nova Scotia, Canada, in the late 1950s and early 1960s. ...
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