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By Desmond Brown IPS Contributing Writer GEORGETOWN, Guyana, March 16, 2017 (IPS) — As Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries continue to build on the momentum of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement and the 22nd Conference of the Parties (COP22) of the ...

By Michael L. Van Cooten PRIDE Publisher/Editor PICKERING, Ontario March 16, 2017 — Amid an ambiance of national pride and conviviality, about 100 of the Who’s Who of Barbados’ Canadian Diaspora, and other guests, bore witness to the official Canadian ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, March 16, 2017 (CMC) – The Energy and Petroleum Commission in Venezuela has rejected the oil operations in Guyana’s Essequibo region. According to a report in El Nacional – a Venezuelan newspaper — the Energy and Petroleum Commission ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 15, 2017 (CMC) – National Security Minister, Robert Montague, says more than 150 guns and over 1, 500 rounds of ammunition have been seized by law enforcement authorities so far this year. Montague said that up until ...

One of Ireland’s most historic homes is for sale. Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and ‘drown the shamrock’ at the Guinness Beer Castle that has reigned over the rolling emerald hills of Ireland near Dublin since the 18th century. In recent ...

By Martin Khor IPS Guest Writer PENANG, Malaysia March 15, 2017 (IPS) — Last year Uber started testing driver-less cars, with humans inside to make corrections in case something goes wrong. If the tests go well, Uber will presumably replace ...

By Rupert Johnson PRIDE Columnist With regard to the perennial wave of crime and violence in Jamaica, it was heartening to read the comments of Robertino Gordon, dean of discipline at Cornwall College in Montego Bay. He stressed the fact ...

DEM JAMAICANS By Shelley Sykes-Coley PRIDE Guest Poet Yu know yu is Jamaican if yu have a ‘what not’ inna yu house, An’ when yu did small, yu did ketch up grass louse. Yu know yu is Jamaican if you ...

By Michael Van Cooten PRIDE Publisher/Editor TORONTO, Ontario March 15, 2017 — St. Lucia-born Justice Gregory Regis, a former Regional Senior Judge with the Ontario Court of Justice, was recently appointed as distinguished visiting professor at Ryerson University, for one ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, March 15, 2017 (CMC) – A 55-year-old British engineer has died after he fell into a concrete mixer at a construction site in Matilda, Princes Town, south of here yesterday, police said. Police said ...