PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, April 9 2019 (CMC) – The Trinidad and Tobago government said, today, it would seek to amend the anti-gang legislation, catering for increased fines and sentences, as it announced a new initiative to “take ...
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Antigua Government Welcomes New Agreement With Carnival Cruise Lines
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda, April 9, 2019 (CMC) – The Antigua and Barbuda government has welcomed the agreement, reached with the Miami-based Carnival Cruise Lines, following the company’s earlier decision to cancel several scheduled calls to the island. “We ...
Read More »Airport In Dominica Remains Closed As Probe Gets Underway, After Plane Crashed
ROSEAU, Dominica, April 9, 2019 (CMC) – The Dominica government said the Douglas Charles Airport, north of here, remains closed, as investigators continue their probe into the crash landing of a Sky High Aviation Services Jetstream 41 aircraft, yesterday. A ...
Read More »Jamaica’s Dunn’s River Falls And Park To Undertake Improvement Modifications
OCHO RIOS, Jamaica April 9, 2019 — The St. Ann Development Company Limited (SADCo), is to undertake a number of improvement works at the Dunn’s River Falls and Park to enhance the overall sustainability of operations, whilst meeting the needs ...
Read More »Local And International Gamblers Cash In On Recent By-Election In Jamaica
KINGSTON, Jamaica, April 9, 2019 (CMC) – Jamaicans, well as people residing as far away as Romania, were able to cash in, financially, on the electoral victory of Ann Marie Vaz in the East Portland by-election, last week, the Jamaica ...
Read More »Quebec’s Bill 21: More Secularism And Antagonism
By Yvonne Sam Social and Political Commentator The leader of the American civil rights movement and Baptist minister, Martin Luther King Jr, once said: “Nothing in the entire world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” Currently Quebec ...
Read More »India: What’s At Stake In The 2019 Elections
By Indrajit Roy Guest Writer Indians are about to start voting in the world’s largest democratic exercise. The country’s 900m registered voters will vote in national elections between April 11 and May 19 across 1m polling stations in 543 constituencies. ...
Read More »Why Age Gives West African Women More Autonomy And Power
By Marijke Verpoorten and Sahawal Alidou Guest Writers Several studies, covering about 58 countries across the world, found that as women get older they are more able to make decisions independently of men. But scholars have struggled to pin down explanations ...
Read More »Oil’s Corrosive Impact On Democracy Is The True Socialist Gateway Drug
By Russell Cobb Guest Writer During the Cold War, socialism was portrayed as a gateway drug to communist orthodoxy. The crisis in Venezuela has resurrected tired old tropes about “pinks” and “useful idiots” who start out as democratic socialists, ...
Read More »Canadian Government Blowing Smoke About Ganja Supplies
By Michael J. Armstrong Guest Writer Ontario’s first legal cannabis shops are finally here. One challenge they’ll face is Canada’s nationwide product shortage. That’s despite repeated federal government assurances of ample supplies. Cannabis shortages certainly seem to exist. Ontario blames ...
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