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By Mykella Van Cooten PRIDE Contributing Writer   As her new solo effort was being released, Simone Denny stopped for a few minutes to chat with Pride News Magazine. The Canadian singer of Guyanese parentage, who played Mama in the ...

By S. Kulkami and Raghav Gaiha PHILADELPHIA AND BOSTON (IPS) — Mohammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, transformed the lives of millions of poor women through unsecured micro loans or micro credit to self-help groups. Microcredit evolved ...

By Joseph Chamie IPS Guest Writer  NEW YORK, NY (IPS) — Women are having fewer than two children on average in 83 countries, representing nearly half of the world’s population. And in some countries, such as Germany, Italy, Japan, Poland, ...

By Mzizi Kabiba IPS Africa Correspondent KAMPALA, Uganda (IPS) — Sixty-five years after a major international summit here on malaria, the mosquito-borne disease remains a scourge and its incidence may even be rising in parts of sub-Saharan Africa due to ...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia CMC – The St. Lucia-based Eastern Caribbean Telecommunications Authority (ECTEL) says, it has written to the Irish-owned telecommunications company, Digicel, warning against plans to implement its ad control technology. The letter comes in response to a September ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – The cash-strapped Guyana Sugar Corporation (GUYSUCO) is warning of a “grim Christmas for sugar workers” if they embark on further industrial action in a bid to force management to hold talks on salary increases. Last month, ...

The continent of Africa is the second largest land mass on Earth and is home to hundreds of different cultures and ethnic groups. African cuisine is very diverse, with many local culinary traditions, in terms of choice of ingredients and ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) – The main opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Monday, called on the Guyana government to deal with the ‘escalating” crime situation in the country and accused President David Granger of seeking to falsify the figures. “The recent ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – A senior prison official was shot and killed here Monday in what the authorities say could have been a hit ordered from within the prison walls. Superintendent Dexter Milette, 50, was shot several times ...

By Rupert Johnson PRIDE Columnist On October 19, the vast majority of Canadians spoke, decisively, and the message was loud and clear: they rejected the Stephen Harper brand of governance — overwhelmingly. It is indeed heartwarming that they have put ...