Photo above: CARICOM Secretary General, Irwin La Rocque (right) and Portugal’s Ambassador, Fernando Teles Fazendeiro. GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Mar 5, (CMC) – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is calling on Portugal to help remove a number of Caribbean countries from a list of ...
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Photo above: the Jamaica Legislature. Photo credit: JIS. KINGSTON, Jamaica, Mar. 6, (CMC) – The members of the Andrew Holness-led Cabinet will be sworn in tomorrow. An advisory from the Jamaica Information Service (JIS) says, the ceremony is scheduled for ...
Read More »Trinidad PM Says Government Not Bankrupt
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Mar. 6, (CMC) – Prime Minister, Dr. Keith Rowly, has sought to assure Trinidadians that the country is not bankrupt. Rowley, who addressed reporters at the end of a retreat in Tobago, yesterday, however, acknowledged that ...
Read More »Windies Trounce Warwickshire To Complete Clean Sweep
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Mar 6, (CMC) – Opener, Johnson Charles, extended his good form, while captain, Darren Sammy, and Ashley Nurse blasted cameos, as West Indies completed their unofficial warm-ups with a three-wicket win over English County Warwickshire, here ...
Read More »Woman Indicted For Impersonating An FBI Agent In Jamaican Lottery Scheme
WASHINGTON, DC Mar 5, (CMC) – The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) says, a US federal grand jury in the Southern District of Georgia, has indicted a woman for impersonating a Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) special agent in ...
Read More »US Coastguard Searches For Man Who Fell From Caribbean Cruise Ship
MIAMI, Florida Mar. 6, (CMC) – The United States Coast Guard says, search-and-rescue crews are searching for a 46-year-old man, who fell from a Caribbean cruise ship, off the coast of Key Largo, Florida, early yesterday. The Coast Guard, today, ...
Read More »Jamaica Records Third Swine Flu-Related Death
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Mar. 5, (CMC) – A 29-year-old woman, from the eastern parish of St. Mary, is the island’s third Influenza A (H1N1) or Swine Flu-related death. The patient, who was 22 weeks pregnant with twins, died on Tuesday. Chief ...
Read More »Dwayne Bravo Key To Successful West Indies World Cup Bid: Curtly Ambrose
Photo above is of all-rounder, Dwayne Bravo, will be key to West Indies’ success at the Twenty20 World Cup. Photo credit: ICC.com. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Mar 5, (CMC) – Bowling consultant, Sir Curtly Ambrose, believes veteran all-rounder, Dwayne Bravo, will ...
Read More »Jamaica’s Under-17 Women’s Soccer Team Routed By US, As Tagliaferri Bags Four Goals
Photo above: Frankie Tagliaferri, who scored four goals, off the bench, for the US. Photo was taken at Colts Neck High School, Colts Neck, NJ, on Wednesday, November 25, 2015 by Russ DeSantis for NJ Advance Media. ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, Mar ...
Read More »No Plan To Stop Any Queen’s Park Oval Test Match, Assures T&T PM, Rowley
Photo above: T&T PM, Dr. Keith Rowley. PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Mar 5, (CMC) – Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister, Dr. Keith Rowley, has pushed back on media reports, which suggested that a lack of government support was putting at ...
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