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By Chantal Keshwah Guest Writer In between the time it took me to chip off the ice from my windshield and to shovel snow from my driveway, was the moment when I decided I wanted to move to sunny Trinidad ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, December 6, 2017 (CMC) – Police were searching for at least four gunmen, who, reportedly, stole five million dollars during a daring daylight robbery at the heavily secured section of the Piarco International Airport, ...

By Shiren Van Cooten PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario December 6, 2017 — In January of this year, Canadian Scholars’ Press published a revealing anthology, Diversity, Justice and Community: The Canadian Context, that was edited by Dr. Beverly-Jean Daniel, a ...

By Neil Armstrong PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario, December 6, 2017 — The Black Action Defense Committee (BADC) and Jamaica Canadian Association (JCA) have welcomed the recently announced proposed changes to police oversight in Ontario. Last month, Marie-France Lalonde, Minister ...

BRONX, New York December 4, 2017 (CMC) – The Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery & Grill, Jamaican-American Lowell Hawthorne, reportedly killed himself, inside his Bronx, New York factory on Saturday. According to police reports, Hawthorne, ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, December 4, 2017 (CMC) – The government of Guyana could be getting help from US oil giant, ExxonMobil, in its efforts to have a judicial settlement of the border controversy with Venezuela. According to News Source Guyana, government ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, December 4, 2017 (CMC) –At least eight people were killed, over a 72-hour period, in Trinidad and Tobago as the country recorded at least 16 murders in the first four days of this month. ...

By Garfield L. Angus JIS Contributing Writer ST. ANDREW, Jamaica December 4, 2017 (JIS) — Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, has lauded track and field icon, Usain Bolt, for helping to lift brand Jamaica and inspiring young people across the globe. ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, December 4, 2017 — Olivia Grange, Jamaica’s Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport says she is very excited by the prospect of an ice arena being established in Jamaica, for the sport of ice hockey to be ...

By Ivan Clifford CMC Contributing Writer HAMILTON, Bermuda, December 4, 2017 (CMC) — A company — owned by 66-year-old Jamaican-Canadian billionaire Michael Lee-Chin’s Portland Holdings — is set to take a majority stake in the parent company of Bermuda’s Clarien ...