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By Roberta K. Timothy Guest Contributor One of the first stories to use race-based data to talk about the risk that Black communities face because of COVID-19 came on March 30 from the Charlotte Observer. The article said Black residents ...

By Samira Sadeque IPS Contributing Writer UNITED NATIONS, New York April 7, 2020 (IPS) — A little over half of women, across the globe, are able to freely make choices about their sexual and reproductive health, according to a latest ...

One of the many things Lee Iacocca — America’s favorite business leader, from the 1960s to the ‘90s — was known for, were his famous quotes, including: “In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, ...

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, April 7, 2020 (CMC) – Prime Minister, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, says his administration plans to bring home Vincentian sailors, who have been stranded on cruise and other ships, due to the coronavirus pandemic.  “There ...

The Editor: The Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr Keith Rowley, delivered his address, today (April 6), to update the nation on the government’s plans to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. This is not the first time that he ...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, April 7, 2020 (CMC) – The government of Grenada has extended the island’s 24-hour mandatory curfew — that should have ended yesterday — to Monday, April 20, and reminded the nation that, under the new regulations for the ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. April 7, 2020 (CMC) – The Organization of American States (OAS) says that leaders of organizations that make up the Joint Summit Working Group (JSWG) have agreed on the need to coordinate response to the impact of the ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, April 6, 2020 (CMC) – The government of the United States has pledged US$700,000 to the government of Jamaica, to help in the fight against the COVID-19 outbreak across the island. According to the United States Agency for ...

By Charles Mwewa Guest Contributor The sooner the sun rises and sets, someone has died Like vapor they go, with or without having goodbyed There’s no funeral home, no morgue to contain them There’s yelling for grandpa, for little Moses, ...

By Ettie Rutherford Contributing Columnist Last Thursday, March 26, was the 124th birthday of my beloved grandmother, who raised me, from I was three-years-old. If she was alive today, she would be heard saying, “Out of evil, cometh forth good.” While ...