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GEORGETOWN, Guyana, August 3, 2017 (CMC) – Deputy Program Manager for Information and Communication Technology (ICT),at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, Jennifer Britton, says the development of applications, such as the recently launched CXC Connect, is critical to the CARICOM ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, August 3, 2017 (CMC) – Minister of Citizenship, Winston Felix, has refuted what he has called dangerous and false allegations, made by Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo, who has accused the government of engaging in “people smuggling”. Jagdeo was ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, August 3, 2017 (CMC) – Trials to ascertain which areas in Guyana are conducive for the production of Quinoa, are likely to commence this September. The National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI), Felix Quinoa Farming Industry (FQFI), ...

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago August 3, 2017 (CMC) – The Airports Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (AATT) says as many as 30 passengers, on board an American Airlines flight, were injured during turbulence, as the aircraft approached the Piarco International ...

HAMILTON, Bermuda, August 3, 2017 (CMC) – Trinidadian soca star, Destra Garcia, has reportedly broken an ankle, after falling from a stage during her performance at a concert here, late yesterday. According to an eyewitness, the 38-year-old performer slipped between ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica August 3, 2017 (PRIDE) — Delegates attending the Jamaica 55 Diaspora Conference 2017 have commended conference organisers for returning the biennial event to Kingston this year. The 2017 incarnation of the Conference was the first time in nine ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica August 2, 2017 (PRIDE) — Lamenting that young Jamaicans have never experienced economic growth in their lifetime, Chairman of the Economic Growth Council (ECG), Michael Lee Chin, last week Tuesday, emphasised that the ECG is focused on building ...

By Shari-Ann Palmer JIS Correspondent KINGSTON, Jamaica August 2, 2017 — Raised in the community of Mountain View, in Eastern Kingston, Jamaica, and migrating to Canada as a teenager, Nadine Spencer is a member of the Diaspora who has established ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica August 2, 2017 (PRIDE) — The Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CaPRI) has indicated that the Jamaican Diaspora, which numbers some three million people, located mainly throughout the United States of America, Canada and the United Kingdom, is contributing ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica July 31, 2017 — Government agencies and organisations are insisting that the state has made significant progress in developing the Jamaican logistics hub; however, some members of the Jamaican Diaspora remain unhappy about the flow of information regarding ...