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CASTRIES, St. Lucia, March 27, 2018 (CMC) – The St. Lucia Fire Service (SLFS) has launched an investigation into the cause of a fire that destroyed the Folk Research Centre (FRC) that houses the most extensive collection of the island’s ...

By Yvonne Sam Political and Social Commentator When an individual, or a people, suffer a great wrongdoing that involved severe degrees of pain and anguish, they tend to understand the suffering of others. It is easy to identify and unite ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, March 26, 2018 (CMC) – National Security Minister, retired Brigadier Edmund Dillon, said, on Friday, he had done no wrong, amid media reports that he had been travelling to the United States for a ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, March 23, 2018 (CMC) – The Guyana government said, today, it is satisfied that all legal requirements have been fulfilled in issuing a petroleum production license, as it responded to a British newspaper article, which indicated that “Guyanese ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, March 23, 2018 (CMC) – The Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) says it will provide US$16 million in funding to the Dominica Electricity Services Limited (DOMLEC), to assist with the restoration of electricity generation services on the hurricane-ravaged ...

UNITED NATIONS, New York March 23, 2018 (CMC) – A new United Nations report says hurricanes, monsoon floods and continuing severe drought, made 2017 the costliest year, ever, for severe weather and climate events. “The start of 2018 has continued ...

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda, March 23, 2018 (CMC) – On Thursday, Gaston Browne was sworn in as Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda for the second time, following his landslide victory in Wednesday’s general election. According to preliminary results, ...

TORONTO, Ontario March 23, 2018 — Afroglobal Television (AFRO TV) — a 24-hour channel that informs, empowers, uplifts and entertains with the best from Africa and its Diaspora, including Canadian success stories — is now available in Eastern Canada. Based ...

By Michael Van Cooten PRIDE Publisher/Editor  TORONTO, Ontario March 23, 2018 — This year’s recipients of the prestigious Harry Jerome Awards (HJA) were announced yesterday. Organised, every spring, by the Black Business and Professional Association (BBPA), the venerable organisation that ...

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts-Nevis, March 21, 2018 (CMC) – The St. Kitts-Nevis government has announced new initiatives, it said will further “maintain the high quality” of the controversial Citizenship by Investment Program (CBI), under which foreign investors are given citizenship of ...