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KINGSTON, Jamaica, Apr. 14, (CMC) – Prime Minister Andrew Holness says his administration remains focused on developing sound economic growth policies, aimed at the country’s dependence on borrowed funds. While acknowledging that “we still borrow”, he argues that this is ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Apr. 14, (CMC) – Governor General, Sir Patrick Allen, says there is urgent need for the restoration and trust in the Government as this is a “key ingredient in building a partnership for prosperity”. Sir Patrick, in delivering ...

WASHINGTON, DC Apr. 14, (CMC) – While remittances to developing countries, overall, edged up slightly in 2015, the World Bank says, among geographical regions, Latin America and the Caribbean saw the “most rapid” growth rate in remittances in 2015. Yesterday, ...

By Michael Van Cooten PRIDE Publisher/Editor TORONTO, Ontario — Director X, known better as Little X, and who is reported to have a net worth of $5 million, will receive the Prism Prize’s Special Achievement Award, next month. Each year, ...

TORONTO, Ontario — Presented with the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Jean-Daniel Lafond’s new documentary, Michaëlle Jean: A Woman of Purpose, will have a special, one-night-only screening in Toronto, next Friday, April 22, at 6:30 p.m., at the Bloor ...

By Michael Van Cooten PRIDE Publisher/Editor BRAMPTON, Ontario, April 14 — Multiple award-winning Reggae songwriter and entertainer, Exco Levi, whose real name is Wayne Ford Levy, will be honoured by the city of Brampton, later this year, the city announced ...

NEWARK, New Jersey Apr. 14, (CMC) – The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency says officers from its Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Newark Field Office have arrested several Caribbean nationals, in an operation targeting children sex offenders. ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Apr. 14, (CMC) – A policeman will be sentenced, later this month, after being found guilty of the 2013 murder of his girlfriend in the eastern parish of Portland. A seven-member jury, today, found Constable Lincoln McKoy guilty ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Apr. 14, (CMC) – The United States government has warned Caribbean countries offering the Citizenship by Investment Program (CIP), to refrain from issuing “unless the issuing government is confident, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the individual is a ...

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, Apr. 14, (CMC) – The governments of Haiti and the Dominican Republic have pledged to re-establish ties, following months of disagreement. According to Dominica’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Andrés Navarro, the ties between the countries that ...