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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, February 27, 2020 (CMC) – Health authorities in Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica have imposed more travel restrictions on four more countries, which have cases of COVID-19. During a press conference, today, Jamaica’s Minister of Health, Dr. Christopher ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, February 25, 2020 (CMC) – The Jamaica government says it is focused on ensuring the highest standard of safety in the petroleum trade, after one person was killed, following an explosion and fire that damaged a gas station ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, February 25, 2020 (CMC) – Former Barbados Prime Minister, Owen Arthur, is heading an 11-member Commonwealth Observer Group that will monitor the March 2 regional and general elections, here. The Commonwealth Observer Group is among several regional and ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, February 25, 2020 (CMC) – St. Lucia-born attorney, Cynthia Cleopatra Combie Martyr, is heading a 14-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Election Observer Mission (GEOM) that will monitor the March 2 regional and general elections in Guyana. The Guyana-based CARICOM ...

By Ettie Rutherford Pride Contributing Columnist Criticism is a part of daily living. For anyone to avoid being criticized, they would have had to exist in a very reclusive manner, on another planet. Since criticism is concrete proof that others ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, February 25, 2020 (CMC) – Sugar workers staged a peaceful protest here, today, for salary increases, after their union — The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) – accused the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) of not wanting ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, February 25, 2020 (CMC) – Two senior police officers are among three people, charged with trafficking in person (child) for the purpose of exploitation. A statement, from the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS), ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, February 25, 2020 (CMC) – The Private Sector Commission (PSC) says there’s “the very real possibility that a significant number of voters may be disenfranchised”, as a result of the changes made by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) ...

OCHO RIOS, Jamaica February 25, 2020 — A cruise ship, with over 4,500 passengers and over 1,600 crew members, was denied access, today, to the port of call in Ocho Rios, St. Ann. The vessel arrived at approximately 8:30 a.m. ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, February 24, 2020 (CMC) – The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) says more than 80 percent, of the members of the country’s security forces, voted, last Friday, as Guyana began the process of electing a new government on March ...