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By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist To date, no consensus has been reached by historians, regarding Marie-Joseph Angelique’s actual guilt, or innocence. On the morning of June 21, 1734, Angelique was in a chamber with a priest, a judge, a physician, ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist It was snowing, heavily, in Montreal when I got the call: Kobe has died in a helicopter crash. No word was mentioned of his daughter also meeting her demise. The caller hung up, leaving me ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, January 31, 2020 (CMC) – The body of an 11-year-old school boy, who had been reported missing on Wednesday, has been found. The authorities said that the body of Mark Leslie, a student of the Mannings Hill Primary ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, January 31, 2020 (CMC) – Global credit ratings agency, Fitch Ratings Inc., has affirmed the government’s Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer and Local-Currency Issuer Default Rating at ‘B+’, and revised the outlook from stable to positive. According to Fitch Ratings, ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, January 31, 2020 (CMC) – Gregory Dean, the Chief Executive Officer of the telecommunications company, Digicel Guyana, is urging the authorities to move towards liberalising the sector, after a petition was posted on social media, urging Guyanese to ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, January 31, 2020 (CMC) – The Barbados-based Caribbean Drought and Precipitation Monitoring Network (CDPMN) says the entire Caribbean basin should monitor its water supply and adopt conservation measures, as much as possible, as drought situations continue to worsen ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, January 31, 2020 (CMC) – Three Jamaicans and four Honduran nationals have been arrested by the police, following the seizure of marijuana and cocaine, in the tourist resort town of Negril, earlier this week. The Narcotics police, yesterday, ...

ST.GEORGE’S, Grenada, January 31, 2020 (CMC) – Officials in the United Kingdom and the United States have called on the government of Grenada to undertake legal reform that will protect children against forced labour and provide protection for nationals, based ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, January 31, 2020 (CMC) – The Point Lisas Industrial Development Corporation (PLIPDECO), today, denied reports, circulating on social media, that dead bodies had been removed from a vesse, docked at its port, on the ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, January 28, 2020 (CMC) – Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, led the congratulations for teen sensation, Kofee, after she won the Grammy for the Best Reggae Album category at the 62nd Grammy Awards in the United States, on Sunday ...