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KINGSTON, Jamaica, November 13, 2019 (CMC) – Douglas Vaz, a former government minister with the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), is dead. Vaz, a former Industry and Commerce Minister, who was 83, died late Saturday. “It is with deep sadness ...

NAIROBI, Kenya, November 13, 2019 (CMC) – A senior United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) official, said, today, that there’s a growing problem of gender-based violence in Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. UNFPA Caribbean Director, Alison Drayton, who ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, November 13, 2019 (CMC) – The Guyana government announced, today, a new GUY$70,000 minimum wage for public servants. “In three-and-a-half years, the minimum wage has gone up by over 75 percent. I think by any stroke of circumstance, ...

ROSEAU, Dominica, November 13, 2019 (CMC) – The two main political parties continued their campaign for the December 6 general election, here, over the weekend, with Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit telling supporters that the future of Dominica is “at a ...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, November 13, 2019 (CMC) – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) ministers, with responsibility for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), have agreed to collectively approach the region’s telecommunications providers, to eliminate roaming charges throughout the 15-member grouping. A statement, issued ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, November 13, 2019 (CMC) – The former United Nations Special Envoy and CARICOM Deputy-Secretary General, Professor Edward Greene, has been appointed as the new Chancellor of the University of Guyana (UG). He replaces Chancellor Emeritus, Nigel Harris, whose ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, November 13, 2019 (CMC) – The Trinidad and Tobago government has defended the move to further amend the Bail (Amendment) Bill, even as opposition legislators criticised the “reactive measure” in dealing with crime on ...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, November 13, 2019 (CMC) – The government says it will “continue to respect the freedoms, guaranteed to all St. Lucians”, as it defended the decision, by Prime Minister, Allen Chastanet, to seek legal redress to statements, allegedly ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, November 13, 2019 (CMC) – Sir Edward Zacca, who served as a Chief Justice of Jamaica, as well as President of the Court of Appeal in The Bahamas, died, on Monday, after a long illness. He was 88. ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, November 13, 2019 (CMC) – Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, ended his official visit to China, over the last weekend, negotiating no new loan programs with the Asian country, in keeping with its firm commitment to reduce debt rapidly, ...