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By Yvonne Sam Social and Political Commentator Once upon a very long time, Blacks respected each other. They were our grandparents, great grandparents or even further back than that. And today, although there are some of us who respect ourselves ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, April 18, 2018 (CMC) – A 53-year-old man has been denied bail, after he appeared before a city magistrate, on charges of sexual penetration and sexual touching of a seven-year-old girl. Ted Dookie, 53, ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, April 18, 2018 (CMC) – An earthquake, with a magnitude of 4.7, rocked several parts of Antigua and Barbuda, yesterday, causing widespread panic, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or deaths. The US-based Geological Survey (USGS) ...

LONDON, England April 17, 2018 (CMC) – Prime Minister Theresa May, today, publicly apologised to Caribbean countries, as she met with Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders to discuss the situation of pre-1971 Caribbean undocumented United Kingdom (UK) immigrants. “I want to ...

WASHINGTON, United States of America April 10, 2018 (CMC) – The United States says despite the police bringing cash seizure and forfeiture cases to the courts, there have not been any money laundering convictions, to date, in Trinidad and Tobago. ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, April 10, 2018 (CMC) – Less than 24 hours after he was demoted as a Cabinet minister, the newly-appointed Minister in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, Darryl Smith, has been fired. A ...

HAMILTON, Bermuda, April 10, 2018 (CMC) – Jamaica-born Anthony Smellie, the longstanding Chief Justice of the Cayman Islands, has been appointed to Bermuda’s Court of Appeal. He will join the court in June, while Elizabeth Gloster, Vice-president of the Court ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, April 10, 2018 (CMC) – A 64-year-old man will re-appear in court on April 16, charged with threatening to kill President, David Granger, last month. Motielall Balkarran, an East Coast Demerara resident, appeared in court yesterday, after the ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, April 10, 2018 (CMC) – Jamaica’s Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Desmond McKenzie, has called on local authorities to become more self-sufficient, in order to reduce their dependency on central government. Addressing the inaugural Caribbean Conference ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, April 10, 2018 (CMC) – Trinidad and Tobago has offered “sincere apologies” to Dominica, following the “mishap” that occurred when Port of Spain voted against a waiver on Dominica’s assessed quota contribution to the ...