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KINGSTON, Jamaica, January 3, 2020 (CMC) – The Jamaica government says despite economic shocks in the third quarter of last year, the local economy has shown signs of expansion. Finance and Public Service Minister, Dr. Nigel Clarke, says the Statistical ...

UNITED NATIONS, New York January 3, 2020 (CMC) – The national flag of St. Vincent and the Grenadines has been installed at the United Nations Security Council, as the multi-island country begins its historic, two-year term as a non-permanent member. ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, January 3, 2020 (CMC) – The former Chair of the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group, who helped to negotiate the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, Giza Gaspar Martins, is warning the Caribbean that climate change is “real”, and ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, January 3, 2020 (CMC) – The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) says during the last five work-days of December, last year, it recorded net currency issue of J$2.9 billion to financial institutions, including commercial banks, building societies and cambios. ...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, January 3, 2020 (CMC) – The Ministry of Education has announced that a mandatory hour of prayer will be introduced, on the first day of school, in the new school year. In a statement, yesterday, the Ministry ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, January 3, 2020 (CMC) – The Barbados Defence Force (DDF) says, in a statement, that it wants to reassure the public that its members are not above the law of the land, and that it is “committed to ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, January 3, 2020 (CMC) – Jamaica’s Police Federation has launched an investigation, following reports that three policemen, who were assigned to the holding area of the Supreme Court, have contracted tuberculosis (TB). Officials from the federation, who represent ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, January 3, 2020 (CMC) – The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA), citing the need to preserve press freedom, has called on the Guyana government to review its current practice of the distribution of official advertising, to ensure “neither Stabroek ...

ROSEAU, Dominica, January 3, 2020 (CMC) – The Dominica Employers Federation (DEF) said, today, in order to comply with demands from the public for “more shopping hours”, it would seek to have the government amend existing legislation, so as to ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, January 3, 2020 (CMC) – The Trinidad and Tobago government says the value of the country’s non-energy exports, during the first six months of last year, was an estimated TT$6.07 billion. The Ministry of ...