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KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC — Although a two-year agreement has been signed between the government and the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU) that covers salaries and other benefits for public sector workers, there has been a setback in an increase ...

By Lekan Afolabi PRIDE Sports Columnist This is a rant. It is a sports rant but it is also a rant about some of the social ills that black communities, both in the United States and in Canada, are facing. ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – The Guyana government has acknowledged that the sugar sector is “in distress” but said it is convinced that the industry will rebound in 2015. “It is not the first time it has been in distress. GUYSUCO ...

OREGON, US CMC — The first-ever discovery of a salamander, in amber, has shed light on the evolution of the Caribbean, according to scientists at Oregon State University (OSU). They said, that fossil records have revealed something not known before ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados CMC – Tropical storm, Danny, has become a tropical depression as it moves through the Eastern Caribbean, but residents were keeping their eyes on a weather system that was 1,250 miles east of the Lesser Antilles. The Miami-based ...

Photo above: Studies show that indigenous fish species in Uganda – here being caught on Lake Victoria – have shrunk in size due to an increase in water temperature as a result of climate change. Photo credit: Wambi Michael/IPS. By ...

It is recommended that females between the ages of 11 and 50 years consume about 50 mg of iron per day; it is even higher for pregnant women, between 30 – 60mg per day. Surrounded by a lot of lovely ...

Photo above: Warrior King was recognized, in August 2010, by the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) Marcus Garvey Awards for his contribution to music. Jamaica’s Artist of the Year in 1975 and 1976, Johnny Clarke, and Warrior King, a devout ...

By Allan Bucka Jones PRIDE Health Columnist Recently a significant study from the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, was published in the BMJ Open Journal. It is the first study in Canada to look at ethnic-specific trends of cardiovascular risk ...

TORONTO, Ontario – With summer temperatures mimicking the heat of excitement that was the Toronto 2015 Pan Am and ParaPan-Am Games, which ended last Saturday, residents and visitors to the mega-city that is Toronto, will not soon forget their experiences. ...