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GEORGETOWN, Guyana, April 3, 2020 (CMC) – The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) indicated, today, that it will be awaiting the ruling of the Court of Appeal, before any further decisions will be taken, in its plan to carry out the ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. April 3, 2020 (CMC) – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is appealing for US$94.8 million from donors, to fund priority public health measures, aimed at helping Caribbean and Latin American countries address the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Yesterday, ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, April 3, 2020 (CMC) – Health Minister, Dr. Christopher Tufton, says the Andrew Holness-led administration is considering publishing the names of persons, who arrived in the country, between March 18 and 23, and have failed to report to ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, April 3, 2020 (CMC) – Popular dancehall entertainer, Vybz Kartel, today, lost his appeal against his murder conviction. After a near two-year wait, the Court of Appeal handed down a judgment, affirming the murder conviction of the popular ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, April 3, 2020 (CMC) – The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) agreed, today, to a national recount of ballots, cast in the general election, held on March 2, 2020. This was communicated by the Commission’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), ...

By Luis Felipe López-Calva Guest Contributor UNITED NATIONS, New York April 3, 2020 (IPS) — History shows that in Latin America and the Caribbean, volatility is the norm and not the exception, and that the development trajectories of their countries ...

By Mutahi Kagwe and Siddharth Chatterjee Guest Contributors NAIROBI, Kenya, April 3, 2020 (IPS) –– Many soldiers have seen, first-hand, the horrors of war and, terrifying though it often was, they knew who they were fighting, and could recognise their ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, April 3, 2020 (CMC) – Acting Prime Minister, Santia Bradshaw, announced that the 24-hour curfew, scheduled to be implemented, today, will come into effect at 8 pm (local time), and not 5pm, as previously stated. According to Bradshaw, ...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, April 3, 2020 (CMC) – Over 100 persons are now facing charges, for violating a mandatory 24-hour curfew, that was imposed by the government, in an effort to fight the coronavirus pandemic. The curfew, which came into ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, April 3, 2020 (CMC) – Another person has died of COVID-19 in the twin-island republic, bringing the total number of deaths from the virus, so far, to six. A release from the Ministry of ...