PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, May 18, 2020 (CMC) – Police are investigating the drowning deaths of two brothers in a pond in Valencia, north east of here, yesterday. The authorities have identified the brothers as 13-year-old Junior Soogrim ...
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PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, May 18, 2020 (CMC) – Haiti has recorded nearly 100 cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19), during the past 24 hours, as the number of cases in the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country jumped to 456. The ...
Read More »Barbados PM Assures No Job Cuts In Public Sector, As Island Moves Into New Phase To Re-Start Economy
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, May 15, 2020 (CMC) – Prime Minister, Mia Mottley, has promised that there will be no job cuts in the public service, but hinted at the prospect of forced savings, as the island emerges from the lock-down, occasioned ...
Read More »US Ambassador Pushes For Carter Centre’s Involvement In Guyana’s Ballot Re-Count Exercise
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, May 15, 2020 (CMC) – The United States Ambassador to Guyana, Sarah-Ann Lynch, today, pushed for the US-based Carter Centre and the International Republican Institute (IRI) to be allowed into the country, to observe the recount of the ...
Read More »Canadian Prime Minister Discusses COVID-19 Pandemic With Jamaican Counterpart And UN Secretary-General
OTTAWA, Ontario, May 15, 2020 (CMC) – Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, held talks, Wednesday, with his Jamaican counterpart, Andrew Holness, and United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, on the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly for the developing world. A ...
Read More »Hard Choices Put Health-Care Workers At Risk Of Mental Anguish And PTSD During Coronavirus Pandemic
By Margaret McKinnon and Ruth Lanius Guest Contributors Initial reports from the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic suggested that health-care workers were at high risk for moral injury. Moral injury, often associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), is thought of in ...
Read More »Impacted Severely By COVID-19 Canadian Home Sales Post Record Decline In April
By Michael van Cooten Publisher/Editor OTTAWA, Ontario, May 15, 2020 – Statistics released, today, by the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) show the history-making and devastating effect the coronavirus pandemic — and its attendant social, economic and commercial restrictions — ...
Read More »Thanks For Enlightening Article, Featuring Black-Canadian Trailblazers In Nursing
Re: “Recognizing History Of Black Nurses: A First Step To Addressing Racism And Discrimination In Nursing”, published on Tuesday, May 12, 2020. Thank you Keisha for this enlightening article and for mentioning how my aunt, Bernice Carnegie Redmon, (whom I ...
Read More »Jerk Chicken Stir-fry
By Chris De La Rosa Culinary Specialist After sharing a pic of this Jerk Chicken Stirfry on Instagram, I had someone comment “what is leftover jerk chicken?” I do agree, there are many Caribbean dishes, which always seems to be ...
Read More »Apple, Carrot, Orange Smoothie
By Chris De La Rosa Culinary Specialist I thought I’d share a recipe, taken from my website, Caribbean Pot’s, recent “Week of Smoothies” that’s not only very simple to make, but it mimics a popular drink, we enjoy in the ...
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