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QUEENS, New York, April 26, 2019 (CMC) – A Guyanese national, who escaped to his home country, after allegedly killing another man in New York, was arraigned, yesterday, in the Queens Criminal Court in New York. Troy Thomas, 33, who ...

  By Peter Penar and Carolyn Logan Guest Contributors In recent months, persistent protesters in Algeria and Sudan have faced down government repression to depose long-time political leaders. Unfortunately, these two countries are the exception rather than the norm. More often ...

  By Erika Altmann Guest Contributor It’s time to debunk the myth of zero housing costs in retirement if we want to understand why retirees resist downsizing. Retirees have at least five reasons to be wary of the costs of downsizing. ...

By Jennifer Power Guest Contributor One in two Australian men aged 18 to 55 have experienced sexual difficulty in the past 12 months, according to data released this week. The findings are drawn from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Male Health, ...

By Jonathan Cohn Guest Writer At the start of Black History Month 2019, Google designed its daily-changing homepage logo to include an image of African-American activist Sojourner Truth, the great 19th-century abolitionist and women’s rights activist. But what would Truth say ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, Apr 26, 2019 (CMC) – The Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard said, yesterday, it was engaged in a search and rescue mission, after a Venezuelan vessel sank on its way to Trinidad and Tobago, ...

By Yvonne Sam Social and Political Commentator Some possible answers, regarding mental illness and the rise in teen suicide, warrant a look from a basal stance. The truth (or part) of the matter is that we are still not accepting ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, April 26, 2019 (CMC) — Police was probing the fatal shooting of five people in the southern neighbourhood of Carrefour-Feuilles, late Wednesday. According to the police, seven people were also injured in the incident.  Police Commissioner, Joel Casseus, ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, April 25, 2019 (CMC) – President David Granger announced a shake-up of his coalition government’s Cabinet, today, in-keeping with the High Court ruling that it was unconstitutional for a person, holding dual citizenship, to be elected as a ...

By Michael Van Cooten Publisher/Editor TORONTO, Ontario April 25, 2019 — Former Jamaican-Canadian tennis professional, Douglas “Dougie” Burke, on Saturday evening, will be the sole recipient of one of his birth-country’s highest tennis awards — induction into the Jamaica Cup ...