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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, June 24, 2020 (CMC) – The state-owned carrier, Caribbean Airlines (CAL), has recorded a loss of more than US$14 million, in just over a one-month period, as a result of the impact of the ...

By Ettie Rutherford Contributing Columnist As we go through these days of unparalled upheaval, I am reminded of the simple adage that says ,“The times they are a changing”. That, I believe is a fitting statement for today’s situation, in ...

By Michael Van Cooten Publisher/Editor BRAMPTON, Ontario June 24, 2020 (PRIDE) – “For too long, brilliant, innovative, hard-working Black Canadians, with so much to offer, have been overlooked and excluded, just because of the skin they are in. This has ...

By Michael Van Cooten Publisher/Editor OTTAWA, Ontario June 23, 2020 — Deborah “Debbie” Owusu-Akyeeah, a first-generation Ghanaian-Canadian, is the new Executive Director (ED) of the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity (CCGSD). Owusu-Akyeeah, who will officially start in her ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, June 17, 2020 (CMC) – National Security Minister, Dr. Horace Chang, disclosed that the homicide rate curve has been flattening, across Jamaica, over the last two years, as a result “of the structured and strategic security measures”, implemented by ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana June 17, 2020 — The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Chair, retired Justice Claudette Singh, yesterday, officially instructed Chief Elections Officer (CEO), Keith Lowenfield, to “prepare and submit” a final elections report to the Commission, by 1PM tomorrow. In ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, June 16, 2020 (CMC) – The main opposition, the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), tonight, said that it wants a “speedy transition to a democratically-elected government”. “The People’s Progressive Party is extremely happy with today’s decision of the Guyana ...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, June 16, 2020 (CMC) – The Grenada government announced, today, it will re-open the Maurice Bishop International Airport (MBIA) on July 1, as the country recovers from the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) that forced it to ...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, June 16, 2020 (CMC) – The St. Lucia Air and Seaport Authority (SALSPA) said work has started on the multi-million dollar project to rehabilitate the Hewanorra International Airport (HIA), in the south of the island, more than ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, June 16, 2020 (CMC) – The Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), retired justice Claudette Singh, said, today, that she had requested that the Chief Elections Officer, Keith Lowenfield, to prepare a report to ascertain the results ...