By Allan Bucka Jones PRIDE Health Columnist One in eight men in Canada are affected by prostate cancer; and Black men have even higher rates. With the increased vigilance around detecting prostate cancer, more and more men are surviving prostate ...
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Motorists In Jamaica Urged To Stop Using Flashing Blue And Red Lights
By Chris Patterson JIS Contributing Writer ST. ANDREW, Jamaica, July 13, (JIS) — Jamaica’s Traffic Police are urging motorists to desist from using flashing lights that replicate emergency vehicles. Under the law, emergency lights are to be used only by the ...
Read More »Jamaica Providing Assistance To Guyana’s Police Force
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, July 13, (CMC) – Jamaica is providing assistance to Guyana to strengthen its crime and security intelligence-gathering strategies and techniques, Police Commissioner, Seelall Persaud, has announced. Addressing the annual police awards ceremony, today, Persaud said the Jamaica Constabulary ...
Read More »T&T Company Awarded Multi-million Dollar Contract For Water Project In Guyana
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, July 13, (CMC) – Guyana has signed multi-million dollar contracts with local and Trinidad and Tobago companies to provide portable water to some ritual communities, in some instances, for the first time. The project is being executed by ...
Read More »UWI Principal Pleads With Barbados Government To Pay Outstanding Debt
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, July 13, (CMC) – The Principal of the Cave Hill campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Professor Eudine Barriteau, has made an impassioned plea for the Barbados government to meet its multi-million dollar debt to ...
Read More »Jamaica Government To Review Legislation Regarding Violence Against Women
KINGSTON, Jamaica, July 13, (CMC) – The Jamaica government says it will review legislation related to violence against women and children, in the wake of the murder of three-year-old Nevalesia Campbell over last weekend, Culture, Gender, Entertainment, and Sport, Olivia ...
Read More »Guyana Government Issues Warning To Local And Overseas Companies
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, July 13, (CMC) – The Guyana government says it will not condone any local or foreign company breaching local laws, nor will it interfere with the workings of trade unions here. Minister within the Ministry Social Protection, Keith ...
Read More »St. Kitts Police Detain St. Vincent National Following Murder Of Woman
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts-Nevis, July 13, (CMC) – Police have arrested a St. Vincent and the Grenadines national after he, allegedly, killed a woman at their home, today, a few yards from a police station. Police said that the woman, Samantha ...
Read More »Grenada Public Service Commission Defends Decision To Reinstate Suspended Senior Police Officer
GEORGE’S, Grenada, July 13, (CMC) – The Public Service Commission (OSC), today, defended its decision to reinstate Assistant Superintendent of Police, Claudius David, and the Keith Mitchell government said it was surprised at the decision. The PSC confirmed that the ...
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