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NEW YORK, New York Wednesday, June 26, 2019 — Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated actress, Jamaican-American Kerry Washington, and co-star, Reese Witherspoon, recently, shared a first look of their upcoming Hulu series adaptation that is based on the bestselling novel, “Little ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, June 26, 2019 (CMC) – Hundreds of mourners, on Sunday, said farewell to former Prime Minister, Edward Phillip George Seaga, who died last month. The Ecumenical Service of Thanksgiving for Seaga, who was 89, was held at the ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica Wednesday, June 26, 2019 — Jamaican health authorities are warning nationals to take preventative measures to deal with the excessive heat being experienced here, noting that the situation is harmful to their health and could also prove to ...

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda, Wednesday, June 26, 2019 (CMC) – It’s official. Antigua and Barbuda will be the location for the fourth, landed campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI). UWI Vice-Chancellor, Sir Hilary Beckles, told a ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, June 26, 2019 (CMC) – Guyana signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Canadian Audit and Accountability Foundation (CAAF), on Sunday, to ensure improved transparency in the management of public resources. A government statement said that the ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Wednesday, June 26, CMC – The Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), retired justice James Patterson, demitted office, yesterday, one week after the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) said his appointed was flawed and not in ...

You may have heard the term “legal tender” in the news recently. That’s because the Government of Canada has announced that as of January 1, 2021, it will remove legal tender status from some bank notes, namely the $1, $2, ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, June 26, 2019 (CMC) – Two weeks after he pleaded guilty to raping three people, including a seven year old child, Leon Jordan was, today, sentenced to 62 years in jail for the offences. Justice Brassington Reynolds imposed ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, April 30, 2019 (CMC) – Guyana aviation authorities have described as “very unfortunate” criticism, made by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), over the inconvenience being suffered by passengers, because of the manual payment of new airport fees, ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, April 30, 2019 (CMC) – The Trinidad and Tobago government has issued a licence to the Jamaican conglomerate, NCB Global Holdings Ltd., (NCBGHL) to acquire control of the local company, Guardian Holdings Limited (GHL). ...