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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Republic Bank Limited (RBL), one of the biggest commercial banks here Friday denied media reports that it had suspended the sale of foreign currencies, saying that it had instead “tightened controls in the sale ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC — Two visitors are battling for life in hospital following a shooting incident in the western parish of Hanover early Friday. The female visitors were among four persons shot by gunmen. The police report that one of ...

Photo above credit: the Jamaica Gleaner. KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The house in which Jamaica’s first National Hero, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, grew up, will be refurbished and transformed into a heritage site. Culture Minister, Lisa Hanna, in a message to commemorate ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The main opposition People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) returned to the Parliament for the first time since the May 11 regional and general election, and immediately declined to nominate a person for the post of Deputy ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica government has signed a two year agreement with the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU) that covers salaries and other benefits for the period April 2015 to March 2017 for public workers. However, the ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping has welcomed the improved relations between the United States and Cuba and urged Washington to remove the “out-dated and unjust trade and economic embargo” against the Caribbean country. In a statement ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – A 29-year-old man is due to re-appear in court on September 7 on charges of extorting money from popular actor Oliver Samuels and stealing two high-end phones from his house. Junior Webster Sommerville appeared in the ...

Photo above is of the Honorable Percival J. (PJ) Patterson. TORONTO, Ontario — The Most Honorable Percival J. (PJ) Patterson, Jamaica’s longest-serving Prime Minister — from 1996 to 2006 — will be the keynote speaker at the Calabar Old Boys Association (COBA) – Canada’s, annual ...

Photo above: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon gives President Barack Obama a banner after their bilateral meeting in the Oval Office, August 4, 2015. The message reads, “The highest virtue is like water.” Photo credit: Official White House photo by Pete Souza. ...

Photo above: From L – R: Sanchia Persaud; Ms. Sattie Sawh, Consul General; Frederick Mc Wilfred, Political Division; Larry London; Minister Joseph Harmon; Minister Cathy Hughes; and Bobby Vieira, at the Last Lap Lime event. Photo courtesy of the Guyana Information ...