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By Nadia Kanji Contributing Writer UNITED NATIONS, New York July 30, 2019 (IPS) — Human trafficking for sexual exploitation has been steadily increasing in Canada. The most recent statistics indicate that 2016 had the highest recorded rate of human trafficking, ...

By Sean Rehaag Guest Writer U.S. President Donald Trump regularly asserts that the United States is under attack by foreign invaders and that he is the only one willing to stop them. Who are these invaders? Central American asylum seekers, ...

By David W Scheifele Guest Writer The oxygen flow was at maximum but it wasn’t enough to keep Aliyah alive. Her measles-damaged lungs failed in the night. Aliyah was one of hundreds of children with measles that I looked after ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, July 29, 2019 (CMC) – Retired Justice, Claudette Singh, was sworn in to office, today, as the first ever female Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM. President David Granger swore-in Justice Singh, during a ceremony at the ...

By Mohammed El Hazzouri and Leah Hamilton Guest Writers Have you ever seen an HIV awareness advertisement, featuring Black or Latino models? These ads are widespread in both print and social media. However, our research shows that these ads may not ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, July 29, 2019 (CMC) – The Barbados government says it will allow residents to hold foreign currency accounts, of up to US$10,000, as of August 2, this year. Minister in the Ministry of Finance, Ryan Straughn, said the ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, July 29, 2019 (CMC) – Prime Minister, Dr. Keith Rowley, yesterday, reiterated his decision not to acquiesce to the request, by the Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago (LATT), regarding the possible impeachment of ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, July 29, 2019 (CMC) – A team of investors, including Jamaican aviation veteran, Glenn Logan, led by Yann LeProvost of the France-based company, W&Y SAS, has taken over the operations of the problem-plagued Fly Jamaica Airways. The new ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, July 29, 2019 (CMC) – A 56-year-old pastor will be sentenced on October 18, after he pleaded guilty, today, to having sex, on several occasions, with a 12-year-old child, more than three years ago. The Gleaner newspaper reported ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, July 26, 2019 (CMC) – President David Granger, today, named retired Justice, Claudette Singh, as the new Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), as the country prepares for fresh regional and general election as mandated by the ...