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By Allan Bucka Jones PRIDE Health Columnist Black women are at greater risk of dying from early-stage breast cancer when compared with women of other races and ethnicities. Breast cancer carries a triple negative category where growth of the cancer ...

Studies Of Our Non-Human Friends May Show How Genes Inspire Our Better Tendencies While humans are capable of acts of cruelty, greed and deception, they also possess plenty of positive characteristics such as kindness, compassion, friendliness and empathy. But why? ...

By Carla Hindman PRIDE Financial Columnist September is just around the corner, and when it comes to back-to-school, it pays to be prepared. In 2014, a Retailmenot.ca survey revealed that just over 50 per cent of Canadians planned to spend ...

By Ingrid Walter PRIDE Contributing Writer The smell of drifting sea salt permeates the light, breezy tropical night air. Sandals held in our hands, our bare feet burrow through millions of grains of spongy sand towards the sound of drums ...

Photo above: A section of the crowd at the 2015 Grenada Day event. Photo by Lincoln Depradine. By Lincoln Depradine PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario — Grenada soon will have a new top diplomat in Toronto in what the country’s ...

By Rupert Johnson Since the resumption of the Duffy trial a couple of weeks ago, I have watched with amazement and bated breath, the shenanigans and earth-shattering spectacle of this particular trial. I have been bombarded with an unprecedented litany ...

Photo above: Costa Rica’s National Stadium, donated by China as a gift for the reestablishment of bilateral ties in 2007, and built in 2009-2010 by a Chinese company with Chinese labour. Photo credit: Diego Arguedas Ortiz/IPS. By Diego Arguedas Ortiz IPS ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – Opposition Leader, Dr. Keith Rowley, says, he is prepared to go to jail rather than comply with a request from the Integrity Commission, that he submit documents, within 14 days, relating to a matter ...

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti CMC — Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Irwin LaRoque, last Sunday, toured the exhibition booths at Grand Market at the Caribbean Festival of the Arts (CARIFESTA), as the French-speaking Caribbean nation pulled out all ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – Opposition Leader, Bharat Jagdeo, led a walk out of legislators from the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) after he concluded his contribution to the GUY$221 billion (One Guyana dollar =US$0.008 cents) budget, late on Friday night. But ...