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TORONTO, Canada CMC – A contest aimed at increasing the visibility of the Jamaican music, reggae, is being planned for Canada. “The goal of the Reggae Song Contest is to contribute to increasing the visibility of reggae and its share ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – Veteran Jamaican reggae singer, John Holt, has died. He was 69. His manager, Copeland Forbes, said, the singer, whose hits included Stick by Me, Only a Smile, Tonight, Ali Baba and I See Your Face, died ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The leader of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, is calling on Caribbean countries to demand reparation for slavery from the Roman Catholic Church, in addition to Europe. Farrakhan, who was addressing the 19thanniversary of the ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – Parliament has given the green light to the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, 2014, ensuring that businesses no longer face closure when facing bankruptcy. The Senate has approved the legislation with 43 additional amendments, following passage in ...

SANTIAGO, Chile, CMC – Two United Nations agencies say the unfavorable evolution of the economy in Latin America and the Caribbean during the second half of 2014 will not prevent regional urban unemployment from decreasing slightly this year. The Economic ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government says it is maintaining a ban on travellers from Nigeria entering the oil-rich twin island republic, even though the World Health Organization (WHO) Monday, declared the African country free ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – The powerful Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) on Tuesday, prevented its members from unloading a ship from West Africa, saying that the state-owned oil company, PETROTIN, had not formulated any protocols to deal with ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – The Portia Simpson Miller led administration has been threatened with a lawsuit after Gerald Perreira, a Guyanese Muslim leader, was barred from entering the country to attend the 19th anniversary celebration of the Million-Man March. Perreira ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica government Friday, confirmed that it had paid an estimated US$36,000 to return the leader of the radical Jamaat al Muslimeen group back to Trinidad and Tobago after denying him entry early last week. The ...