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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados CMC – The British telecommunications giant, Cable and Wireless Communications, Plc (CWC) says it is investing US$160 million in Barbados as the Company rolled out its new retail brand, Flow, as part of the multi-million dollar merger with ...

WASHINGTON, DC CMC — The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says growth projections for Latin America and the Caribbean have been revised down further, to 0.5 per cent in 2015, marking the fifth consecutive year in which activity has decelerated. IMF ...

Photo above by Anthony Berot. By Lincoln Depradine PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario — The Festival Management Committee (FMC), organizer of the Scotiabank Toronto Caribbean Carnival, presented a public preview of what’s to be expected when the big parade is ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – The Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has ruled that the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) breached its contract, in disconnecting a customer’s internet service because of his use of Vonage, an internet ...

KINGSTON Jamaica CMC – A police officer, who was shot and killed by gunmen as she rode a bus to her home last week, graduated with an Associate of Science Degree in Business Administration, when the University College of the ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana says it will resist any plans by Venezuela to issue residents in Essequibo with identification cards, as the war of words linked to the territorial dispute between the two countries continued unabated. “We will stoutly ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago Debates Commission (TTDC) says it will host two debates in August with or without Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar. But Larry Lalla, the attorney representing Prime Minister Persad Bissessar, has ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – Police say they have extended, by two weeks, an investigation into the alleged discovery of marijuana at the private residence of Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar, two years ago. “I have given a clear ...

TORONTO, Ontario – Employees of the Crown Metal Packaging factory in Toronto have ratified a new collective agreement, ending a 22-month strike. Members of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 9176 voted, on Sunday, to accept a six-year collective agreement with Crown. ...

By Neil Armstrong PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario — Refugee claimants, who arrived in Canada before December 15, 2012, are being reassured by the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB) that it is aware that they are anxious to ...