BASSE-TERRE, Guadeloupe, September 19, 2017 (CMC) – Hurricane Maria is being blamed for at least one death on the French-speaking Caribbean nation of Guadeloupe, yesterday, prior to making landfall in Dominica. According to government officials, one person was killed when ...
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UWI To Confer Honorary Doctorate On Former Jamaica Prime Minister, Portia Simpson Miller
KINGSTON, Jamaica, September 19, 2017 (CMC) – Jamaica’s immediate-past Prime Minister, Portia Simpson Miller, will be conferred with a Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws (LLD) from the University of the West Indies (UWI), during an official ceremony on September ...
Read More »Revitalising CARICOM’s Agricultural Sector
By Marie Claire Williams CMC Feature Writer BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, September 18, 2017 (CMC) – Every year, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries spend billions of US dollars importing agricultural products into the region. But three decades ago, agriculture was the main ...
Read More »Guyana Government Hosts Anti-Money Laundering Outreach And Sensitisation Seminar
NEW AMSTERDAM, Guyana September 15, 2017 — Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Basil Williams, and members of the Ministry of Legal Affairs Compliance Team, held a one-day Anti-Money Laundering Outreach and Sensitisation Seminar on Tuesday, at the Little ...
Read More »Investment In Guyana’s Education Sector Money Well Spent, Says President Granger At National Education Rally
GEORGETOWN, Guyana September 15, 2017 — President David Granger said his government will ensure that quality education is delivered across the country, despite the limitations that it faces, in terms of budget and population size. “We will improve the delivery ...
Read More »Korea Donates Three SUVs To Jamaican Government
By Elaine Reckord JIS Reporter KINGSTON, Jamaica September 15, 2017, (JIS) — The Republic of Korea has donated three motor vehicles valued at US$100,000 to the government of Jamaica. The gift was made possible through the Korea International Cooperation Agency ...
Read More »Jamaica In Line For IMF Funds Next Month
KINGSTON, Jamaica, September 15, 2017 (CMC) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says Jamaica is likely to receive US$180 million in October, after an IMF delegation reached a preliminary agreement with the authorities on a set of policies that aims ...
Read More »Oil Company Threatens Legal Action As “Fake Oil” Controversy Widens In Trinidad
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, September 15, 2017 (CMC) – A&V Oil and Gas Limited, the company at the center of a so called “fake oil” controversy, is condemning an audit report done by the state-owned oil company, PETROTRIN, ...
Read More »Caribbean Development Bank President Gives Support To Citizenship By Investment Program
ROSEAU, Dominica, September 15, 2017 (CMC) – President of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Dr. Warren Smith, has come out in support of regional countries implementing the controversial Citizenship by Investment Program (CIP), through which citizenship is afforded to ...
Read More »St. Kitts-Nevis To Accommodate CXC Students From Hurricane-affected Countries
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts-Nevis, September 14, 2017 (CMC) – The government of St. Kitts-Nevis has offered to accommodate secondary school students, from islands that were severely affected by the passage Hurricane Irma, and who are registered to sit Caribbean Examination Council ...
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