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UNITED NATIONS, New York September 26, 2016 (CMC) – Last Friday, Jamaica told the international community that it is pursuing reforms to improve the efficiency of the public sector, improving its customer service delivery, pursuing economies of scale, reducing duplication ...

UNITED NATIONS, New York September 26, 2016 (CMC) – Two Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries, Monday, expressed support for the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda (SDA), even as they appealed to the international community to help make the goals a reality, by ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, September 25, 2016 (CMC) – United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, has pledged to offer assessment of the Guyana/Venezuela border row before he leaves office. During a meeting with Guyana President, David Granger, last Saturday, the UN Secretary ...

By Michael Van Cooten PRIDE Publisher/Editor TORONTO, Ontario September 19, 2016 – The Prime Minister of Barbados, Freundel Stuart, will be the featured speaker at the 9th Annual Errol Barrow Memorial Dinner, which is being held in Markham, this Saturday. ...

St. JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda, September 19, 2016 – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has deepened its partnerships within the region, in order to strengthen its efforts to address the withdrawal of correspondent banking services from some regional institutions. Prime Minister of ...

By Neil Armstrong PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario September 15, 2016 (PRIDE) — Three African Canadian artists were so inspired by a trip to their ancestral homeland in Africa, last year, that they have planned an event to raise funds ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, September 15, 2016 (CMC) – The Jamaica government says it will not revoke the domestic, mobile spectrum licence, granted to Symbiote Investments Limited, a few days before the February 15 general elections, here. Prime Minister Andrew Holness, in ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, September 14, 2016 (CMC) – Guyana has signed an agreement with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) that will allow the country to prevent, deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in its territorial ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, September 14, 2016 (CMC) – Prime Minister, Dr. Keith Rowley, says his administration will be spending US$17.5 million on equipment that will enable the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) to boost intelligence-gathering efforts ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, September 14, (CMC) – The Guyana government said, last Friday, that the authorities have been unable to proceed with criminal investigations against several people, who have been linked to stealing public funds and other property, because of the ...