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KINGSTON, Jamaica, December 15, 2018 (CMC) – The Jamaica government has signed a new, four-year wage agreement with the Jamaica Police Federation (JPF). The accord was signed, late yesterday, following months of negotiations. Finance and Public Service Minister, Dr. Nigel ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, December 15, 2018 (CMC) – The Barbados-based Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) has declared 2019, the “Year of Festivals in the Caribbean”, following the past year’s successful Year of Rejuvenation. CTO said that as a result, the region will ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, December 15, 2018 (CMC) – The Trinidad and Tobago government has signed a new agreement with BP Trinidad and Tobago (BPTT) as the oil company announced the sanction for two new gas developments offshore. ...

NEW KINGSTON, Jamaica December 15, 2018 — Jamaica’s Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment Sport, Olivia Grange, told Lydia Heywood, the England-born Eventing rider, who plans to represent Jamaica at the next Olympics: “We are thrilled that you have decided to ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, December 15, 2018 (CMC) – Health authorities have dismissed suggestions of an outbreak of dengue fever in Jamaica, and urged people to destroy breeding grounds for the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which transmits the disease. “The first line of ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, December 15, 2018 (CMC) – The Guyana government says the vote of no-confidence, filed against it, by Opposition leader, Bharrat Jagdeo, will be heard on December 21. Government Chief Whip and Social Protection Minister, Amna Ali, has described ...

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, December 15, 2018 (CMC) – A 39-year-old pastor has been committed to stand trial, on a charge of having sex with a member of his congregation, when she was between the ages of five ...