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ROSEAU, Dominica, Mar. 31, (CMC) – A former government minister has been appointed to investigate the increase in the number of school dropouts. Education Minister, Petter Saint Jean, says the Ministry has engaged the services of former Minister for Social ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica Mar. 31, (CMC) – A policeman is among seven persons facing extradition to the United States to stand trial on lottery scamming charges. Between Tuesday and Wednesday, the police detained 19 persons in a major anti-lottery scam operation, ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Mar. 31, (CMC) – The police have taken into custody Bibi Safaoora Salim, 52, following a Facebook post, in which she threatened President David Granger. The police, who are also searching for two more persons, who are Guyanese ...

Photo above: Owen Verwey, CEO of GoInvest. Photo credit: GINA. GEORGETOWN, Guyana March 30, 2016 (GINA) — The Guyana Office for Investment (GO INVEST) is looking to encourage Guyanese living abroad to invest back home. In an interview with the Guyana ...

Photo above: St. Lucia Prime Minister, Kenny Anthony, right, presents an award to Paula Calderon, Managing Director of Caribbean Awning Production Company Ltd. as SMA President, Ronald Ramjattan, left, who is also the owner of Baron Foods Ltd., joins in the  photo ...

Photo above: Antigua Prime Minister Gaston Browne. Photo credit: Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party. ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, Mar. 30, (CMC) – Prime Minister, Gaston Browne, today, tabled a report on the Citizenship by Investment Program (CIP) here, as he dismissed opposition ...

Photo above: OAS Special Meeting in progress in the organisation’s chambers. Photo credit: OEA/OAS. WASHINGTON, DC Mar. 30, (CMC) – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries, today, urged the Organization of American States (OAS) to lend support to their claims that the ...

By Neil Armstrong PRIDE Contributing Writer  TORONTO, Ontario — A photographic exhibition at Ryerson University, capturing the era of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, is resonating here in Toronto, in the wake of the ongoing protest by ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Mar. 30, (CMC) – The Jamaica government says, it will operate the financially troubled Long Pond Sugar Factory in Trelawny, for three months, in order to save cane produced for this year’s crop. “The principals of EFL (Everglades ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Mar. 30, (CMC) – The Guyana government is seeking to establish a special response team to deal with prison unrests in the future, following this month’s incident that left at least 17 inmates dead and several others injured, ...