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By Cathrine Neilsen-Hewett and Steven Howard Guest Contributors With governments around the world asking their citizens to avoid places, activities and gatherings to save lives, this just might be the largest ever international effort to self-regulate our actions against competing desires ...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, May 19, 2020 (CMC) – The St. Lucia government announced, last Saturday, it would begin the gradual re-opening of its borders on June 4, after indicating that the island had been able to curb the spread of ...

By Nelson A. King CMC Correspondent BROOKLYN, New York, May 19, 2020 (CMC) – The Brooklyn-based West Indian American Day Carnival Association (WIADCA) says it plans to proceed with its year-round community programs and the New York Caribbean Carnival Week, ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, May 19, 2020 (CMC) – Prominent Jamaican businessman and media tycoon, Oliver Frederick Clarke, 75, died, on Saturday night, after a prolonged battle with cancer. The Jamaica Gleaner newspaper, which Clarke managed and chaired for four decades, described ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana May 18, 2020 (CMC) — President, David Granger, yesterday morning, proclaimed that his government stands ready to accept the final declarations of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), after the national recount of the March 2 General and Regional ...

ROSEAU, Dominica, May 18, 2020 (CMC) – The Dominica government says it has spent an estimated EC$22 million in direct costs, so far, in its response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, even as it outlined new initiatives to assist nationals, ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, May 18, 2020 (CMC) – The Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) announced, today, it is making available US$66.7, million in emergency loans, to seven Caribbean countries, in the first instance, to finance the response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, May, 18, 2020 (CMC) – Prime Minister, Dr. Keith Rowley, named the Minister in the Ministry of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs, Fitzgerald Hinds, as the new Public Utilities Minister, replacing Robert Le ...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, May 18, 2020 (CMC) – Legal Affairs Minister, Kindra Mathurine-Stewart, today, led the tributes to Magistrate, Karen Noel, who died suddenly at her home, yesterday. “It is with a sense of profound shock and sadness that I ...

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts-Nevis, May 18, 2020 – Prime Minister, Dr. Timothy, Harris, has announced that the St. Kitts and Nevis electorate will head to the polls on Friday, June 5, to choose a government to lead the nation for the ...