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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, September 18, 2018 (CMC) – The state-owned oil company, PETROTRIN, today, said that all employees will be put on the breadline when the company shuts down its loss making oil refinery, later this year. ...

ROSEAU, Dominica, September 18, 2018 (CMC) – Dominica is observing the first anniversary of the devastation, caused by Hurricane Maria, last September, that killed at least 30 people, with Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit praising God and insisting that “considerable progress” ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, September 18, 2018 (CMC) – Jamaica says it is taking strategic steps to ensure that the island capitalises on its potential and benefits, in a more significant way, from gastronomy tourism. Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett, says the Gastronomy ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, September 18, 2018 (CMC) – The Trinidad and Tobago government, yesterday, said the compensation package for workers, being laid off by the closure of the oil refinery of the state-owned company, PETROTRIN, could be ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica September 18, 2018 — Olivia Grange, Jamaica’s Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport announced, last Friday, that for the first time in the history of the INSPORTS Community Football and Netball Competitions, the winning netball team will ...

By Ettie Rutherford Contributing Writer I am sure you have heard the expression, “as strong as a lion”. I used to wonder why the elephant was never the animal that was portrayed as being strong, even though it is much ...

Can the type of house one lives in help its residents live longer? The architectural team of Arakawa and Gins thought so. They believed in it so wholeheartedly, that they gave their unique twist on design an equally unique name: ...

ONTARIO, September 18, 2018 — Born on August 31, 1963, Eunice Quash-Branch, daughter of the late Alphonso and Daisy Quash, “went to be with her God”, on September 11, at the age of 55, after a lengthy fight with cancer. ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, September 18, 2018 (CMC) – Yesterday, Jamaica became the latest Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country to announce a ban on Styrofoam, single-use plastic bags and drinking straws. Antigua and Barbuda, St. Lucia, Dominica, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada and St. ...

There is a crying and urgent need for vigorous debate about the extent of police misconduct toward Black men By Yvonne Sam Social and Political Commentator Here we go again, a community grappling with what steps to take to prevent ...