Photo above: Minister of Public Infrastructure, Hon. David Patterson (right) with (left to right) Head of Task Force, Major General (Retired) Joe Singh; CEO of the NDIA, Fredrick Flatts; Ambassador Ernst Noorman; DRR member, Judith Klostermann; DRR Team Leader, Rob Steijn; and DRR ...
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Feed SubscriptionJamaica’s Agro-Park, A Success In Agriculture
By Kenton X. Chance CMC Jamaica Correspondent KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC) — Sitting in the driver’s seat of her vehicle inside New Forest/Duff House Agro-Park in south of Manchester, Carmeta Atkins easily fits the stereotypical description of a Caribbean farmer. She ...
Read More »Jamaica Government Committed To Supporting Medium And Small Businesses
KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC) – Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller says the government will continue to put supportive mechanisms in place to facilitate the growth and development of the micro small and medium-sized enterprises (MSME) sector. Addressing the Small Business Association ...
Read More »Antigua Barbuda Investment Bank Ends Operations
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC) – The Antigua and Barbuda government says the operations of the troubled Antigua Barbuda Investment (ABI) Bank “would cease immediately” after announcing that the financial institution is being taken over by the Eastern Caribbean Amalgamated Bank ...
Read More »St. Kitts-Nevis PM Makes Impassioned Plea To Paris Meeting
PARIS, France (CMC) – St. Kitts-Nevis Prime Minister Dr. Timothy Harris has called on the international community to “negotiate and agree a legally-binding agreement with ambitious emission reduction targets”. Addressing the 21st Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention ...
Read More »Paris Climate Summit Opens With Dire Warning
By Thalif Deen IPS New York Correspondent UNITED NATIONS, New York (IPS) — When the climate summit opened in Paris on Monday, the mood was overwhelmingly pessimistic — largely about the current state of the global environment. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon ...
Read More »Jamaican Politicians Saddened At Passing Of Roman Catholic Priest
KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC) – Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has expressed sadness at the sudden passing of Roman Catholic priest, Monsignor Richard Albert. The priest who was born in New York and made Jamaica his home for close to four ...
Read More »Caribbean Public Health Agency Again U rges Precaution To Avoid Mosq uito Bites
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has again urged persons to take every precaution to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes, especially in the wake of the mosquito borne Zika disease being detected in Suriname ...
Read More »Jamaica Health Minister Halts Burial Of Dead Babies
KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC) – Health Minister Horace Dalley has instructed the authorities at two Corporate Area Hospitals to refrain from burying the bodies of babies that have been in the morgue – some for several months. Dalley issued the order ...
Read More »Walter Rodney Commission Of Inquiry Granted Two Week Extension To Submit Report
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) – The government has given the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry two more weeks to complete its report on findings related to the death of Guyanese historical and politician, Dr. Walter Rodney Demerara Waves Online News has ...
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