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By Sandy Daley The late great Nelson Mandela once wisely said, “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who ...

By Allan Bucka Jones Pride Health Columnist As we end this first month of 2015, and move into February, you should have already booked the date for you to do this year’s annual check-up or physical…if not, please do so ...

By Rupert Johnson Over two weeks ago there was a thunderous outcry and condemnation of the coldblooded murder of 17 people in Paris, France by Islamist terrorists. About a million people, including 40 world leaders, marched side by side in ...

After His Devastating Loss, a Man Finds Healing Through Writing Can an emotional trauma flip a switch in the creative brain? Does profound loss offer a new perspective from which to peer into one’s soul? For LeRoy Flemming, author of ...

TAMPA, Florida, CMC – Grammy winning Jamaican reggae artiste, Buju Banton, has lost his appeal to have his conviction overturned to secure a new trial. With this ruling, that was handed down in a Florida court earlier this week, Buju ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Marcia Henville, the television talk show host, whose charred remains were discovered after a fire gutted her bedroom early last Saturday morning, was murdered, according to the results of an autopsy done on Monday. ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former acting President of Trinidad and Tobago, Joseph Emmanuel Carter, died on Wednesday in Miami, at the age of 85. Carter, who was also a former President of the Senate, was acting as President ...

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, on Tuesday, described as a “malicious rumour” reports that he is sick. He assured nationals that if he had been hospitalised, a formal statement would have come from the competent authorities. “I ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The main opposition, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), Friday, said, it was prepared to consider any proposal that would allow its minority partner, the Alliance For Change (AFC) to lead a pro-democracy coalition into the ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica is on course to become self-sufficient in the production of table Irish potato by the end of 2015. “For 2015, we are aiming to produce 18 million kilograms of table Irish potato, which would mean ...