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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, April 23, 2019 (CMC) – The Trinidad-based Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is urging the region, to ensure that its vaccination coverage remains at 95 percent, or more, noting that immunization is one of ...

By Nelson A. King Correspondent NEW YORK, New York April 23, 2019 (CMC) – An opposition Member of Parliament in St. Vincent and the Grenadines says farmers, on the Caribbean island, will not benefit, significantly, from the legalization of marijuana ...

WASHINGTON, District of Columbia April 23, 2019 (CMC) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says Jamaica’s public debt is projected to fall, below 100 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), for the first time, since 2000-1, to 98.7 percent, this ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, April 23, 2019 (CMC) – Prime Minister, Mia Amor Mottley, has disclosed that her administration is in discussions with The Nature Conservancy, about the possibility of doing a maritime debt-for-nature swap. The prime minister made the disclosure, last ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, April 23, 2019 (CMC) – The Barbados-based Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) said, today, it has started a search for a new secretary general, after the current holder of the office, Hugh Riley, retires at the end of June. ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, April 23, 2019 (CMC) – Trinidad and Tobago’s murder toll, for the year, so far, climbed to 158, after nine people were killed, during the Easter holiday weekend, the police have confirmed. The death ...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, April 23, 2019 (CMC) – The Grenada government says the late Sir Alister McIntrye has left the entire Caribbean with a rich legacy, as it paid tribute to the son of the soil, who died, last weekend, ...

ROSEAU, Dominica, April 23, 2019 (CMC) – Police say they are continuing their investigation, into an incident at sea, after one person was discovered, following a joint search-and-rescue operation with the Maritime Rescue Coordinating Centre (MRCC) in Martinique. They said ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, April 23, 2019 (CMC) – Police are investigating the murders of three people, after their bodies were found at their home, by a friend, in Manchester, in west central Jamaica, today. Police have identified the dead family members ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, April 22, 2019 (CMC) – The Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago (CBTT) says it is conducting a survey, to determine the adequacy of financial institutions’ cyber security frameworks to ascertain security measures, currently ...