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SCARBOROUGH, Tobago, February 13, 2020 (CMC) – The Chief Secretary of the Tobago House of Assembly (THA), Kelvin Charles, says he will be stepping down from the post, three weeks after he lost the leadership of the People’s National Movement ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, February 13, 2020 (CMC) – The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is seeking to assure voters that it is working to ensure that the results of the March 2 regional and general election would be made available, in the ...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, February 13, 2020 (CMC) – The Grenada government has welcomed the start of construction of the multi-million-dollar, 100-room, luxury hotel, on the east coast, saying it will impact “significantly” on the island’s rural economy. Prime Minister, Dr. ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, February 13, 2020 (CMC) – Prime Minister, Mia Mottley, has warned Barbadians that they cannot survive in isolation, as she piloted an amendment to existing legislation, on Tuesday night, in keeping with the freedom of movement of Caribbean ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, February 13, 2020 (CMC) – Guyana is receiving assistance from the European Union (EU) for the full implementation of the global Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), which came into force in 2014. Public Security Minister, Khemraj Ramjattan, addressing the ...

WASHINGTON, DC February. 13, 2020 (CMC) – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) says it is preparing eight Caribbean countries for laboratory diagnosis of new coronavirus (COVID-19). Yesterday, PAHO said that virology experts its Washington-based headquarters have travelled to the ...

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts-Nevis, February 13, 2020 — St Kitts and Nevis’ Opposition Leader, Dr. Denzil L. Douglas, said, Tuesday night, that the Cannabis Bill 2020, which was to be debated in the National Assembly, yesterday, “complicates rather than simplifies, and ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, February 13, 2020 (CMC) – Prime Minister, Dr. Keith Rowley, yesterday, described persons, engaged in committing murders, here, as “idiots”, as police continued investigations into the latest killings that have, so far, pushed the ...

CASTRIES, St. Luca, February 13, 2020 (CMC) – Health authorities in St. Lucia have confirmed that a foreign national, who arrived here, earlier this week, by a private yacht, did not have the deadly coronavirus. This was confirmed by the ...

By Yvonne Sam Pride Contributing Columnist In 1963, Saint-Firmin Monestime, a Haitian-Canadian politician and Medical Doctor, became the first Black elected Mayor of a Canadian municipality — the northern Ontario town of Mattawa, with a population of 3000. The town ...