GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Feb. 18, CMC – Several months after being appointed Guyana’s Ambassador to Venezuela, Cheryl Miles was accredited on Wednesday. Foreign Affairs Minister, Carl Greenidge, who made the announcement today, said Miles presented her credentials to Delcy Rodriguez, Venezuela’s ...
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TORONTO, Ontario — Premier Kathleen Wynne announced, on Tuesday, that Ontario will establish an Anti-Racism Directorate to address racism in “all its forms — including individual, systemic and cultural”. “We know in our hearts that deeply entrenched biases are still ...
Read More »Antigua’s Attorney General Dismisses Opposition Claims CIP Operations Illegal
Photo above: Antigua’s Opposition Leader and former Finance Minister, Harold Lovell ST. JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC) – Attorney General, Steadroy Benjamin, has dismissed suggestions, by former Finance Minister, Harold Lovell, that all transactions under the Citizenship by Investment Program (CIP) since September ...
Read More »CARICOM Secretary-General Gets Second Term
PLACENCIA, Belize (CMC) – Caribbean leaders have agreed to a new five-year term for Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General, Irwin La Rocque, Belize Prime Minister, Dean Barrow, announced on Wednesday. Barrow, the in-coming CARICOM chairman, said that the leaders of ...
Read More »New Port-Of-Spain Mayor Sworn Into Office
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – Keron Valentine became the youngest ever Mayor of Port of Spain, on Wednesday, after he was sworn in, less than 24 hours following the resignation of Raymond Tim Kee, on Tuesday. Valentine, 31, said, ...
Read More »CARICOM Leaders Adopt Position On Zika Virus
PLACENCIA, Belize (CMC) – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders have endorsed a course of action to deal with the spread of the mosquito-borne Zika virus and other diseases, CARICOM Chairman, Dean Barrow, said Wednesday. Barrow, the Prime Minister of Belize, said, ...
Read More »Jamaica Opposition Leader Refuses To Apologise; Now Targets Finance Minister
KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC) – The leader of the main opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Andrew Holness, has refused to apologise to Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, over statements he allegedly made during the campaign for the February 25 general elections. Prime ...
Read More »Jamaica’s Ruling Party Launches Election Manifesto
Photo above: PNP Party Leader, Portia Simpson Miller. Photo courtesy of the PNP. KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – Yesterday, Jamaica’s ruling People’s National Party (PNP) launched its manifesto, ahead of the February 25 general election, promising jobs for young people, to implement ...
Read More »The Tragedy Of Darfuri Asylum-seekers In Uganda
Photo above: Children in the International Rescue Committee Kindergarten in Hamadiya. Photo credit: UN Photo/Fred Noy/IPS. By Amy Fallon IPS Correspondent KAMPALA, Uganda (IPS) — After escaping the genocide in Sudan’s Darfur region during which his father and two brothers were ...
Read More »Rice: Africa’s Ticket Out Of Poverty
Photo above: Research assistant, Blance Soussous, showing packed parboiled rice. Photo credit: Busani Bufana/IPS. By Busani Bafana IPS Africa Correspondent COTONOU, Benin (IPS) — Africa is eating more rice than other food staples, though it produces less than it needs. This ...
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