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ST. JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda, December 19, 2016 (CMC) – The Antigua-based regional airline, LIAT, today, said that a pilot — accused by a passenger on board one its flights, last week, of smelling of alcohol — had been cleared ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, December 19, 2016 (CMC) – Barbados has recorded an increase in respiratory illnesses in November 2016, as compared to the same period last year. The Ministry of Health, in a statement, did not give figures to indicate the ...

By Ernie Seon CMC Correspondent CASTRIES, St. Lucia, December 18, 2016 (CMC) – St. Lucia’s tourism product is about to get even more unique as the government begins to roll out plans for the establishment of a new entity to ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, December 16, 2016 (CMC) – Guyana and Suriname leaders ended their one-day summit here, on Friday, agreeing on the need to expedite “matters previously discussed”, as the two largest Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries sought to deepen their existing ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, December 18, 2016 (CMC) – Guyana has welcomed the position of outgoing United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, that its border dispute with Venezuela be subjected to at least one more year of mediation. “The government of Guyana ...

PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos, December 18, 2016 (CMC) – Voters in Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), last Thursday, elected the nation’s first ever woman to head a government in this British Overseas Territory (BOT) and, in the process, booted Premier ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, December 18, 2016 (CMC) – The former co-chair of the Economic Program Oversight Committee (EPOC), Richard Byles, is urging the Jamaica government to consider implementing a reverse mortgage program as an additional source of funds for retirees. Byles, ...

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts-Nevis, December 16, 2016 (CMC) – The St. Kitts Patriots cricket team acquired the services of Twenty20 batting sensation, Chris Gayle, yesterday, in a stunning transfer move for the next season of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL). A ...

By Neil Armstrong PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario December 15, 2016 — With his passing at the age of 87, Larry McLarty, Toronto’s first African Canadian police officer, is being remembered for the course he charted for other black police ...

By Lincoln DePradine PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario December 14, 2016 — A Caribbean-born, Toronto-based medical doctor, who has been providing more than three decades of volunteer services, has received one of the most coveted awards for Commonwealth of Nations’ ...