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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) – Last Friday, the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GUYSUCO) threatened to shut down operations for the current crop, if the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) does not end its strategy of staging weekly strikes in the ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Feb. 22, (CMC) – The Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) says, all is in place for members of the security forces and Election Day workers to vote today, ahead of Thursday’s general election. The EOJ says, 26,498 Election ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Feb. 22, (CMC) – The lobby group, Fixin T&T, has stepped up its campaign for the removal of Housing Minister Marlene McDonald from office saying, her alleged involvement in the procurement of a house in 2008 ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is mounting a CARICOM Electoral Observer Mission to monitor the general elections in Jamaica on Thursday. The Mission is being headed by Josephine Tamai, Chief Elections Officer of the Elections and Boundaries ...

Photo above is of Rose Nakanjako, the Chairperson of Mama Clubs. Rose is HIV positive, but she was lucky that she was not sterilised and both of her children were born HIV negative. Photo credit: Wambi Michael/IPS. By Wambi Michael IPS ...

Photo above: St. Lucia Prime Minister, Dr. Kenny D. Anthony (second from left) seen with Petrus Bank CEO, Jean Francois Ruel (left) and other officials. CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Feb. 18, 2016 (CMC) – St Lucia’s burgeoning international financial sector received a further ...

Photo above: US President Barack Obama listens while meeting with Council of Economic Advisers Chairman, Jason Furman, and Jeffrey Zients, National Economic Council Director, in the doorway of the Oval Office, on January 28, 2016. (Official White House photo by Pete ...

ROSEAU, Dominica, Feb 18, 2016 (CMC) – The Lovely Professional University in Punjab, India, will bestow an honorary degree on Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit of Dominica, next week, when he addresses the university’s commencement ceremony. A statement from the Office ...

Photo above: Andrew Holness and Portia Simpson Miller (forefront).  KINGSTON, Jamaica, Feb. 18, 2016 (CMC) – Hours after announcing that the main political parties had been invited to participate in a political forum, the RJR Communications Group, late today, said ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Feb. 18, 2016 (GINA) — As citizens prepare to celebrate the 46th anniversary of Guyana being a Cooperative Republic, plans are underway to hold flag raising ceremonies across the country. In Georgetown, the once swampy and bushy Durban ...