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By Alecia Smith-Edwards JIS Contributing Writer  NEW KINGSTON, Jamaica, July 14 (JIS) — Brand Jamaica is expected to be further bolstered through an ongoing initiative to promote the country’s tourism product, during the staging of the 2016 Summer Olympics in ...

ROSEAU, Dominica, July 14, (CMC) – Well-known calypsonian, Michael ‘Boople” LaFleur, died in hospital here, this morning, after ailing for some time. Dominica newsonline reports that LaFleur, who participated in the Calypso competition earlier this year, died at the Princess ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, July 14, (CMC) – Health Minister, Terrence Deyalsingh, has been released from the Port of Spain General Hospital. Deyalsingh was admitted to hospital, yesterday, for observation and treatment, following two days of “fever and ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, July 14, (CMC) – Prime Minister, Dr. Keith Rowley, today, criticised remarks made by a Hindu leader, who described former Prime Minister, Patrick Manning, as a “racist’ saying that the statements were “close to ...

The British vote to leave the European Union – commonly referred to as the Brexit – seemed to catch much of the world by surprise, at least temporarily shook up the markets and left many people wondering whether they should ...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, July 13, (CMC) – The leader of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Nazim Burke, yesterday, said he would not vote in support of legislation to reform the existing Constitution, ahead of a referendum scheduled for ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, July 14, (CMC) – The police in the northern parish of St. Ann have charged a man in connection with the murder of a three-year-old girl, on the weekend. On Wednesday evening Alexus Newland, also known as “Dal ...

By Allan Bucka Jones PRIDE Health Columnist One in eight men in Canada are affected by prostate cancer; and Black men have even higher rates. With the increased vigilance around detecting prostate cancer, more and more men are surviving prostate ...

By Chris Patterson JIS Contributing Writer  ST. ANDREW, Jamaica, July 13, (JIS) — Jamaica’s Traffic Police are urging motorists to desist from using flashing lights that replicate emergency vehicles. Under the law, emergency lights are to be used only by the ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, July 13, (CMC) – Jamaica is providing assistance to Guyana to strengthen its crime and security intelligence-gathering strategies and techniques, Police Commissioner, Seelall Persaud, has announced. Addressing the annual police awards ceremony, today, Persaud said the Jamaica Constabulary ...