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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, March 20, 2020 (CMC) – Police Commissioner, Gary Griffith, says law enforcement officials will be utilising the law, regarding loitering, over the coming weeks, in an attempt to keep people from assembling in large ...

The Editor: When one looks at the five representatives from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) — all Blacks — selected to oversee the re-counting of votes of the Guyana general elections, in this severely ethnically-divided society, it boggles the mind, beyond ...

By Ettie Rutherford Contributing Columnist The world, at large, is now experiencing the Coronavirus pandemic: an enemy that is unknown, relentless and life threatening. How can we adequately challenge this situation that has caught the world population off-guard, in so ...

LONDON, England March 20, 2020 (CMC) – A new report, released, here, yesterday, has found that Britain’s Home Office showed “ignorance and thoughtlessness” on the issue of race, in relation to the people, who came from the Caribbean and other ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, March 20, 2020 (CMC) – Trinidad and Tobago announced, on Wednesday, a series of measures that it hopes will help reduce the anticipated economic impact of the coronavirus on the oil-rich, twin island republic. ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, March 20, 2020 (CMC) – Barbados announced three more cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19), yesterday, reiterating that it has no intention of completely shutting down its borders, as it comes to grips with the virus that has been ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, March 20, 2020 (CMC) – The Commonwealth Observer Group, which monitored the March 2 regional and general elections, here, said it is the clear that the tabulation processes, conducted by the Returning Officer for Region 4, were not ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica March 20, 2020 — As part of the government’s stimulus package to minimise the effects of COVID-19 on the economy, the National Housing Trust (NHT) has reduced interest rates on all new loans by one percent, and on ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist The news has been received: yes, the coronavirus is here. Fear not. But mass panic is also here — fear. As a health-care professional for more than four decades, there is very little to which ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 20, 2020 (CMC) – Jamaica now has 16 confirmed cases of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). The latest case is a 57-year-old male, with a travel history to New York. He arrived in the island on March ...