KINGSTON, Jamaica, July 31, 2019 (CMC) – A government legislator, yesterday, condemned the murder of a teacher, allegedly by her boyfriend, during an altercation. “This has to end. Our women need greater support and empowerment to overcome domestic abuse. I ...
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Grenada Government Reporting Increased Revenue For First Six Months Of 2019
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, July 31, 2019, (CMC) – The Grenada government, disclosed, yesterday, that it had recorded a nearly four percent increase in revenue, for the first half of this year, when compared to the same period, last year. “The ...
Read More »Guyana Opposition GECOM Commissioners Raise House-To-House Registration With New Chairperson
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, July 31, 2019 (CMC) – Newly-appointed Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), retired Justice Claudette Singh, met, today, with opposition members on the Commission, who used the opportunity to raise the issue of house-to-house registration. “The issue ...
Read More »Former Trinidad And Tobago-Born FIFA Vice-President Sues Local Football Association
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, July 31, 2019 (CMC) – Former Vice-president of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), Jack Warner, has filed a lawsuit seeking an estimated TT$16 million from the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA). ...
Read More »New National Honours And Awards For Barbados
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, July 31, 2019 (CMC) – Parliament has given the green light to bestowing the Order of the Freedom of Barbados, the island’s highest national honour, as an alternative to a knighthood. Prime Minister, Mia Mottley, who tabled the ...
Read More »Focus On Your Strengths And Soar
By Ettie Rutherford Contributing Writer For many of people, when things are not going the way they would like, they resort to anger, fear, complaining, or even feelings of hopelessness or self-blame. “What did I do wrong? What else could ...
Read More »Ontario Real Estate Agents Urge Federal Government to Make Home Ownership More Affordable For Canadians
TORONTO, Ontario July 31, 2019 – Canadians, especially young families looking to buy their first homes, are struggling to enter the housing market, due to government-imposed barriers to home ownership. Ontario real estate agents are calling for urgent action to ...
Read More »Caster Semenya: The Legal And Ethical Issues That Should Concern Us All
By Steve Cornelius Guest Writer Early last year the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) introduced regulations requiring South African 800m Olympic champion Caster Semenya – and other middle distance runners with differences of sex development – to lower ...
Read More »Jamaica Government Threatens Legal Action To Deal With Elderly People Being Abandoned At Hospitals
KINGSTON, Jamaica, July 31, 2019 (CMC) – Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. Christopher Tufton, is urging relatives, and employees of nursing homes, who inappropriately leave elderly and shut-in persons at hospitals, as a drop-off zone, to cease and desist. ...
Read More »Air Travel Spreads Infections Globally, But Health Advice From In-Flight Magazines Can Limit That
By Ramon Zenel Shaban and Cristina Sotomayor-Castillo Guest Writers “Travel safe, travel far, travel wide, and travel often,” says Nomadic Matt, the American who quit his job to travel the world, write about it and coach others to do the same. ...
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