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BASSETERRE, St. Kitts-Nevis, August 22, 2018 (CMC) – For the first time in St. Kitts and Nevis’ history, United Airlines will fly a second, weekly, nonstop flight from its New York hub at Newark Liberty International Airport, complementing the carrier’s ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, August 22, 2018 (CMC) – A strong earthquake rocked several Caribbean countries, on Tuesday evening, sending people scampering into the streets, as buildings swayed, walls collapsed and several vehicles damaged. The Seismic Unit of the St. Augustine campus ...

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia August 22, 2018 — Renowned advocate for social justice and Black community stalwart, Dr. Jean Augustine, received the 2018 Nelson Mandela Humanitarian Award, last Friday, at Unifor’s Canada Council in Halifax. Named in honour of Nelson Mandela, ...

OTTAWA, Ontario August 22, 2018 — Canada’s new $10 bank note will begin to appear in cash transactions late this year. Designed to stand apart, it’s the first vertical note issued by the Bank of Canada, and features the portrait ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, August 17, 2018 (CMC) – Canadian oil and gas exploration company, CGX Energy Incorporated, announced the name of its next exploration well — ‘Utakwaaka’ — at an Indigenous naming and blessing ceremony by the historic Aleluya Indigenous Group. ...

OTTAWA, Ontario August 17, 2018 (CMC) – Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), has instituted new measures for processing permanent resident applications for Caribbean and other immigrants. “We know that applying to immigrate to Canada is a life-changing event, and ...

By Yvonne Sam Social and Political Commentator It is so blatantly apparent that many in the Black community have forgotten the meaning of family — the meaning that our grandparents and their parents understood. Each and every one of us ...

LONDON, England August 17, 2018 (CMC) – Trinidad-born novelist and Nobel Laureate, Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, known popularly as Sir VS Naipaul, died last Saturday at his home, six days shy of his 86th birthday. Sir Vidiadhar, who became the ...

UNITED NATIONS, New York August 3, 2018 (CMC) – The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) says it is investing US$10.8 million, to help restore agricultural productivity in some of the worst-affected areas of Haiti.  With many rural areas in ...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, August 3, 2018 (CMC) – Jamaica’s Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett, believes tourism has enormous potential to bring the region together and promote regional integration. Addressing the 54th annual general meeting of the St. Lucia Hotel & Tourism ...