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By Ettie Rutherford Contributing Columnist Globally, March 8 was celebrated as International Women’s Day, and I proudly salute women, around the globe, as we all join in solidarity, to acknowledge the sacrifices and leadership that women, on a daily basis, ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica March 11, 2020 — Reduction of the General Consumption Tax (GCT) rate, from 16.5 percent to 15 percent is among $18 million in tax cuts, announced by the government, yesterday. The GCT cut, effective April 1, 2020, will ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, March 11, 2020 (CMC) – Barbados is seeking to negotiate some form of relief with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), as it hinted at the possibility of not meeting its US$290 million target, under the Extended Fund Facility ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, March 11, 2020 (CMC) – Acting Chief Justice, Roxanne George-Wiltshire, ruled, today, that the declaration, made by the Returning Office in Region 4, in Guyana’s disputed regional and general on March 2, was “unlawful” and in breach of ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 11, 2020 (CMC) – Jamaica has recorded its first imported case of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. Christopher Tufton, provided details, at a press conference at the Ministry of Health and Wellness, ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, March 11, 2020 (CMC) – Leader of the main opposition, the United National Congress (UNC), Kamla Persad-Bissessar, has filed legal action in the High Court, against Health Minister, Terrence Deyalsingh, in relation to claims ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, March 11, 2020 (CMC) – The English government is urging President, David Granger, “to preserve the principle of free, fair and credible elections”. “Allegations of electoral fraud and premature declarations of victory, prior to the completion of a ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, March 11, 2020 (CMC) – A four-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) delegation, headed by its Chair, Barbados Prime Minister, Mia Amor Mottley, will arrive, here, later today, in its latest bid to find a solution to the stalemate that ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, March 11, 2020 (CMC) – The Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), retired Justice Claudette Singh, yesterday, expressed the hope that all six members of the Commission will arrive at some compromise, on the way forward, after ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, March 11, 2020 (CMC) – Acting Chief Justice, Roxanne George-Wiltshire, will rule, today, whether or not, the injunction — granted to a supporter of the main opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), to block the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) ...