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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 ...

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). ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

  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 ...

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. ...

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. ...

By Lee Wallender Renovation Specialist Your kitchen or bathroom needs countertops, but which type of material is right? Your choice of countertop materials certainly does hinge on that all-important factor: cost. Yet there are other factors to consider, some of ...

By Firmin DeBrabander Guest Writer Instagram users have taken to issuing “weekiversary posts,” where they diligently mark the duration of their romances. An article in The New York Times explained how weekiversary posts have the unintended – or very much ...