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By Allan Bucka Jones PRIDE Health Columnist I recall growing up in Jamaica when the only cooking oil was coconut oil. Many people actually made their own coconut oil. Back then there was prolific growth of the tall variety of ...

The term ham is usually restricted to a cut of pork.  Ham can either be dry cured or wet cured. A dry cured ham has been rubbed in a mixture containing salt and a variety of other ingredients including sugar ...

Photo above: In an exercise, a Kuwaiti F18 Hornet fighter aircraft stages an attack on Royal Navy Type 23 frigate HMS St Albans. Currently, Israel and all six GCC countries are armed with state-of-the art fighter planes, mostly from the ...

Photo above: Presidents Barack Obama and Uhuru Kenyatta wave to delegates at the Opening Plenary at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, in Nairobi, Kenya on July 25, 2015. Photo credit: U.S. Embassy Nairobi. By Aruna Dutt IPS Correspondent UNITED NATIONS, New ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – Jamaica says it is taking steps to protect is trademark, geographical indications and patents. “In this regard, we have been doing much to develop this regime. Our efforts include amendments to the Trademarks Act to protect ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana government, on Monday, sought to re-assure rice farmers here, that the industry is too important to the country’s economic fortunes to be allowed to fail. “The problems in the industry can be overcome by ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – The Jamaica government says the two billion US dollars raised on the international market as a result of a debt sale is the highest ever for the country. “This is more than twice our previous largest, ...

Photo above: Ebonnie Rowe (Front row, third from left, in black and white dress) and members of the Honey Jam crew. By Neil Armstrong PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario – Honey Jam, a Canadian incubator program for young female artists, ...

BOSTON, Massachusetts, CMC – After an outcry from neighbors, elected officials and the Boston Police Department officials here say this year’s Caribbean J’ouvert will be shortened. The early morning celebration scheduled for August 29 will be cut nearly in half ...

UNITED NATIONS, New York, CMC – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said, on Tuesday, that a United Nations mission will visit his country and Guyana in a bid to encourage dialogue and deal with the centuries old border dispute between the ...