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KINGSTON, Jamaica April 30, 2020 — Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. Nigel Clarke, says the newly-established COVID-19 Economic Recovery Task Force will be working, assiduously, to ensure the restoration of jobs, lost as a result of the ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, April 30, 2020 (CMC) – One of the four prisoners, who escaped from the Lusignan Prison holding bay area, on April 19, has been recaptured. The other three remain on the run. Sasenarine Bisnauth, a resident of Tuschen, ...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, April 28, 2020 (CMC) – The media fraternity, here, was thrown into mourning, after veteran broadcaster and media owner, George Grant, died, yesterday. A spokesman for the Otway/Bailey funeral home, confirmed to The New Today, that Grant ...

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience” — Ralph Waldo Emerson By Ettie Rutherford Contributing Columnist In a world, where instant gratification is expected, being patient is almost seen as a last resort. However, it is in the ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, April 28, 2020 (CMC) — The Barbados-based Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) says its Executive Director, Ronald Jackson, is leaving the post, after seven years “of unwavering and exemplary service to the region”. The Agency announced that ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, April 28, 2020 (CMC) – The Trinidad and Tobago government disclosed, yesterday, that it expects to lose revenue, in excess of nine billion dollars, as a result of the dramatic decline in oil and ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, April 28, 2020 — Caribbean Airlines has introduced cargo charter services, to support supply chains, within the Caribbean region, the regional airline announced, in a statement, yesterday. The airline launched this new option to ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, April 28, 2020 (CMC) – Prominent Trinidad and Tobago playwright, screenwriter, actor, and director, Michael Anthony Hall, died, yesterday, after suffering a massive heart attack, on the island of Tobago, where he lived, his ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, April 28, 2020 (CMC) – The high-level Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Observer Team, tasked with scrutinizing the national recount of all the votes cast in the disputed March 2, elections, will arrive here, on Thursday, the National COVID-19 Task ...

“A nation’s greatness is judged by how it treats its weakest members” — Mahatma Gandhi By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist In the midst of the current pandemic, the words emanating from the lips of relatives, shocked Quebecers, and throughout the ...