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By Chad Bryan JIS Correspondent  KINGSTON, Jamaica May 4 (JIS) — The Ministries of Health, and Education, Youth and Information will be partnering to more effectively serve children with special educational needs. Education Minister, Senator Ruel Reid, said the intervention, ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana May 5 (GINA) — Guyana’s Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan, told the National Assembly, last evening, that the government is very concerned about the crime situation in Guyana, and is doing everything possible to reduce crime. “We on this ...

By Alecia Smith-Edwards JIS Correspondent  PORTLAND, Jamaica May 4 (JIS) — Starting next week, the government will roll out a program of assistance for farmers in Portland and St. Thomas, who lost crops and livestock during the recent flood rains. ...

By Andrea Onley Guest Writer I found out I was pregnant while I was at my annual physical. My doctor wanted to run some tests and asked if I was pregnant. I gave the old response “maybe, who knows” with ...

OTTAWA, Ontario May 5, – The Canadian government says more immigrant entrepreneurs are coming to Canada through the Start-up Visa Program and the benefits are spreading growth and opportunity to middle-class families across the country. The program targets immigrant entrepreneurs ...

BE PROUD | BELIEVE IN YOURSELF | INSPIRE OTHERS   We here at Pride News feel it’s important for you — regardless of sex, age, gender, sexuality, race, religion — to have pride in yourself and everything that makes you YOU! ...

Although Canada has long been known as a hockey nation — with formidable athletes and dedicated fans — in recent years, basketball has battled for the spotlight. Have you become a fan? If not yet, there’s a good chance you ...

By Chris De La Rosa PRIDE Cuisine Specialist Whenever we would have relatives come over for the classic Caribbean Sunday lunch, our dad would always dust out his old crank-ice cream pail and all US kids knew we were in ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, May 3, (CMC) – The Director of Public Information in the Office of the Prime Minister, Imran Khan, has resigned as a director of the state-owned National Communications Network (NCN) in protest at the appointment of Lennox Cornette ...

By Charo Rojas Guest Writer CAUCA, Colombia, May 3 (IPS) — While Colombia’s peace talks continue in Havana, Cuba, back home in the region of North Cauca, Black Colombians have found their cries for access to their ancestral lands met ...