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NC – If you’ve already booked your skiing holiday, you’re probably looking forward to perfecting your snow bunny look and enjoying winter treats in the lodge. But your vacation can provide plenty of fantastic health benefits too, including weight loss, ...

NC – We’re living longer than ever, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in the United States. The average life expectancy south of the border is now just shy of 80 – coming in at ...

Photo above: A major challenge in the path of putting an end to hunger in Africa is global climate change, which is affecting arable land and destroying the harvest of farmers all over the continent. Photo credit: Tinso Mungwe. By Martha ...

Photo above: Jerrold Johnson (centre), Chief Representative Officer at the JNBS Toronto Representative Office, celebrates with Jenate Stampp (right), winner of the 2014 JN Toronto Office Black History Month competition and Anthony Huang, second place winner. Stampp walked away with an ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., CMC – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) says the number of leprosy cases in the Americas, including the Caribbean and Latin America, has declined significantly over the last decade. The number of new leprosy cases fell by ...

Photo above: Jamaica’s Negril beach in the vicinity of the Tree House Hotel bar after rough seas on Good Friday 2013 and prior to the fire that destroyed the Country Country Hotel restaurant in the foreground. Photo credit: Mary Veira/IPS. By ...

By Peter Richards  PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar, Monday night, dismissed her National Security Minister, Gary Griffith, in a major Cabinet re-shuffle that also saw the removal of attorney general, Anand Ramlogan, who is ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC — Telecommunication company, LIME, is to pay more than J$1.5 billion (One Jamaica dollar =US$0.008 cents) to Digicel (Jamaica) Limited for wrongly withholding money, due for calls from LIME’s fixed-line customers to Digicel mobile phones,” the Jamaica ...

Photo above is of Naheed Nenshi  after winning the Calgary municipal election, 2010. Photo by Ted Buracas (Teddy Boy). CALGARY, Alberta — Naheed Nenshi, the Mayor of Calgary, Canada, has been awarded the 2014 World Mayor Prize. First runner-up Daniël Termont, Mayor ...

Photo above is of Pastor Michael Morris. Photo by Lincoln Depradine. By Lincoln Depradine Pride Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario – Caribbean nationals in Toronto must come together in a united effort to protect their children and build a stronger community, ...