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By Annan Boodram Guest Contributor Panic, fear, uncertainty, anxiety, stress, depression, hopelessness, helplessness, cabin fever, frustration, disconnection, isolation, obsessive-compulsive behaviors, mood swings, inability to relax, feeling overwhelmed, and loneliness, are among mental health issues, related to the novel coronavirus pandemic. ...

By Charles Mwewa Guest Contributor The nations are at war, not against each other This is not a battle between brother and brother There are no flash philosophies, no ideologies There are no apologies, and no mythologies The cure is ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist We must maintain our closeness in these critical times. No rational representative of the homo sapiens genre can deny the damage and destruction that COVID-19 has wrought, and still continues to do to our lives ...

By Ettie Rutherford Contributing Columnist As we all experience the overwhelming challenges with the Coronavirus pandemic, it is evident that one of the side-effects to be conquered, is stress, that ever-present enemy during challenging times. Donald Tubesing, a stress-management expert, ...

By Ivelaw L. Griffith Guest Contributor This year electoral winds will blow across eight nations in Latin America and the Caribbean — Belize, Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, Guyana, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, April 14, 2020 (CMC) – The Barbados-based Caribbean Drought and Precipitation Monitoring Network (CDPMN) says, during the first half of the dry season, there is a clear distinction, between the wetter northern and drier southern islands of the ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, April 14, 2020 (CMC) – The Ministry of Agriculture says that it will be spending J$100-million on a program, aimed at mitigating the impact of drought on farmers, and to gain at least a five percent growth in ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, April 14, 2020 (CMC) – Guyana is expected to see an overall economic growth, of 51.7 percent for this year, with further projections, over the next two years. The World Bank, in its recent semi-annual report of the ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, April 11, 2020 (CMC) – Chief Medical Officer (CMO) in the Ministry of Health, Dr. Jacqueline Bisasor McKenzie, says the country will not be using the anti-malarial drug, hydroxychloroquine, to treat persons, who have contracted the coronavirus (COVID-19). ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, April 11, 2020 (CMC) – Hours after warning residents, not to hold any COVID-19 quarantine parties, Police Commissioner, Gary Griffith, led a bust at one such event, early Thursday, and has warned that flouting ...