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RIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) says it has approved US$10 million for projects under the Basic Needs Trust Fund (BNTF 8) in several Caribbean countries. The CDB said that Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. ...

JOHN’S Antigua, CMC – The Antigua and Barbuda government says it is expanding its program of building 500 homes in 500 days, following an overwhelming response to the initiative. The initiative was one of the promises made by the Antigua ...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Former senior government minister, Lenard “Spider” Montoute, says he has resigned from the Senate, but denied reports he was quitting active politics. “Tell them they will be tired of seeing my face…I was born in ...

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Somebody in Dominica is holding a lottery ticket for EC$270,000 (One EC dollar =US$0.37 cents) and the Dominica National Lottery (DNL) is urging the person to cash in the ticket. “We at the Dominica National Lottery ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica government says it will continue to provide “second chance” programs for students who leave the school system without marketable competencies. Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, speaking at a teaching strategy symposium on Saturday, said ...

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe has resigned less than a week after President Michel Martelly had received a report from an 11-member presidential commission established to help deal with Haiti’s worsening political crisis. The Commission ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., CMC – A new joint report by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says the number of babies born with HIV in Latin America and the Caribbean declined by 78 percent ...

Photo above is of (left-right): Anthony Morgan, Paul Chapman, Dr. Akua Benjamin, and Roger-Love. Photo by Lincoln Depradine. By Lincoln Depradine Pride Contributing Writer The Ontario government should make it mandatory for an inquest to be conducted anytime a Black ...

Photo above: Young protesters at the U.N. climate talks in Lima, Peru highlight out-of-touch North American energy policies. Photo credit: Adopt a Negotiator. By Leehi Yona North American Correspondent LIMA, Peru (IPS) – While U.S. and Canadian officials delivered speeches about ...

OTTAWA, Ontario — Canadians vastly underestimate the wealth gap in Canada and want a much more balanced distribution. This is the key finding in the first-ever survey to ask Canadians what they think the wealth distribution is and what they ...