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ROSEAU, Dominica, October 16, 2017 (CMC) – Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, today, called on owners of businesses, damaged by Hurricane Maria last month, to use the insurance payments to help jump-start the Dominica economy. Speaking at the first daily news ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, October 16, 2017 (CMC) – Police have identified the five family members, who were killed when their vehicle crashed into a truck, on Sunday. Police said immigration services consultant, Sabita Manglani, her sons Emanuel and Ethan, her secretary, ...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, October 16, 2017 (CMC) – A former legislator, who represented the labour movement in the Senate, today, defended the decision of public workers to stage industrial action, in support of efforts by two trade unions, to get ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, October 16, 2017 (CMC) – The Trinidad and Tobago government, today, said it had filed lawsuits against five contractors who, it said, colluded to defraud the State of over TT$200 million through bid-rigging and ...

By António Guterres Guest Writer UNITED NATIONS, New York October 7, 2017 (IPS) — As you know, we are coming off a jam-packed High-level week and opening of the General Assembly. Some of the most important speeches during that period ...

By Franck Kuwonu Africa Renewal* Writer AFRICA, October 7, 2017 (IPS) — A few years ago, more than half a century after the concept was first proposed, the government of Côte d’Ivoire completed construction of the Henri Konan Bédié Bridge, ...

By Kenton X. Chance CMC Caribbean Reporter ROSEAU, Dominica, October 6, 2017 (CMC) – A decade ago, when Clyde Edwards got an opportunity to relocate his general grocery business to Riverbank, he did not hesitate. The location was considered a ...

By Kenton X. Chance CMC Caribbean Reporter ROSEAU, Dominica, October 6, 2017 (CMC) – Almost three weeks after Hurricane Maria decimated their island, Dominicans were, yesterday, queuing for hours for an opportunity to buy food or board a vessel leaving ...

By Sharmon Carrington PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario October 6, 2017 — The Guyana Consulate General in Toronto recently solicited the participation of Guyanese nationals, at a “consultative meeting” — held on September 27 — on Guyana’s Draft Diaspora Engagement ...

By Yvonne Sam PRIDE Columnist Thanksgiving is not about what is on the table, but about the people sitting around it. It is interesting, and at the selfsame time, paradoxical, that we annually carry out this ritual of giving thanks ...