By Jeff Moat Guest Writer NC – The school year can be a stressful time for parents and youth alike. Adapting to new schedules, new teachers and new challenges can heighten existing mental health problems and illness. In Canada, data ...
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IMF Urges Jamaica To Create Business Friendly Public Sector
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says the Jamaican government needs to reduce bureaucracy by creating a “more business friendly public sector.” In a statement issued following an IMF mission that ended on Friday, mission chief Jan ...
Read More »Mortgage Options For The Self-employed
By Jon McKay Pride Mortgage Agent If you’re self-employed, you may have a more difficult time obtaining financing for your real estate purchases than you encountered just a while ago, thanks to the recent recession. And as of April 9, 2010, ...
Read More »Jamaican Company To Spend Millions Exploring For Oil
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ) says it will ensure that Jamaicans benefit, if oil is found from the recently announced gas and oil exploration project. The exercise, which commenced on November 1, is being facilitated ...
Read More »REAL ESTATE…with a difference: Prime Time Deion’s Dallas Mansion!
Although he is best known as a professional star in both football and baseball (first person to hit a MLB home run and score an NFL touchdown in the same week, and the only person to play in an MLB ...
Read More »Movie Star, Michael Douglas, Celebrates Opening Of Resort Redevelopment
Photo above: Michael Douglas at the 2013 Deauville Film Festival. Photo by Georges Biard. HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – Actor Michael Douglas was joined by dignitaries and invited guests, last week Wednesday, to celebrate the ground-breaking of a US$85 million redevelopment ...
Read More »Nurse Abducted And Murdered In Jamaica
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, CMC – The police in western Jamaica are probing the abduction and murder of a nurse, late last Wednesday. The police report that Janice Lamond Wilson, 54, a practical nurse, was walking with a child along the ...
Read More »Air Traffic Controllers In Barbados Return To Work
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Air Traffic Controllers at the Grantley Adams International Airport who walked off the job on Monday, are now back on the job. The Air Traffic controllers have been protesting against poor working conditions. However, after a ...
Read More »Jamaican Appointed Chair Of United Nations Security Council Reform
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador, Courtenay Rattray, has been appointed as Chair of the UN Intergovernmental Negotiations on Security Council reform. His appointment was announced on Tuesday by President of the 69th Session of ...
Read More »Jamaican Judge Elected To International Court Of Justice
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Renowned Jamaican and international jurist, Patrick Robinson, has been elected to serve a judge in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for a nine year period beginning in February 2015. Both the United Nations General Assembly ...
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