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By Neil Armstrong Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario June 24, 2017 — In aiming to expand the talent pool of black leaders in government at the municipal, provincial and federal levels, Operation Black Vote Canada (OBVC), a non-profit and non-partisan organization, ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, June 24, 2017 (CMC) – The state-owned Caribbean Airlines (CAL) has received an estimated three billion dollars in subsidies since 2011, Finance Minister Colm Imbert has said. Responding to a question, posed by Opposition ...

By Sir Ronald Sanders Guest Writer WASHINGTON, DC Jun 24, 2017 (CMC) – Three weeks ago, I and many other committed Caribbean integrationists, declared that the unity displayed by CARICOM countries at the Organization of American States (OAS) on May ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, June 8, 2017 (CMC) – The Jamaica government has led the tribute to the President of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF), Captain Horace Burrell, who died, on Tuesday, in the United States. He was 67 years old. Prime ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, June 8, 2017 (CMC) – More than three years after he was alleged to have pulled a firearm on a security guard, Mathew Pendergast, the grandson of reggae legend, Bob Marley, has been freed in the Gun Court. ...

ST.JOHN’S, Antigua And Barbuda, June 8, 2017 (CMC) – The government of Antigua and Barbuda has called on pilots with the regional carrier LIAT, to return to work and continue negotiations with the airline’s management. The call was made in ...

ORANJESTAD, Aruba, June 8, 2017 (CMC) – A court, here, has declared the Dutch Caribbean carrier, InselAir Aruba, bankrupt. The Curacao Chronicle reports that the court granted the airline a deferment of payment for a few months, and presently flights ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, June 8, 2017 (CMC) – Visitors to Jamaica spent an estimated US$759.3 million during the period, January to March, this year, according to figures released by the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ). It added that the island welcomed ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, June 8, 2017 (CMC) – Barbadian hotelier, Patricia Affonso-Dass, has been elected to head the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA). Affonso-Dass, the group general manager at Ocean Hotels, was elected, last weekend, at the CHTA’s annual general ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, June 8, 2017 (CMC) – A Chinese business delegation has expressed interest in investing in Guyana’s natural resources, after holding talks with the Minister within the Ministry of Natural Resources, Simona Broomes, and a team from the Guyana ...