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By Jon McKay Pride Mortgage Agent If you’re self-employed, you may have a more difficult time obtaining financing for your real estate purchases than you encountered just a while ago, thanks to the recent recession. And as of April 9, 2010, ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ) says it will ensure that Jamaicans benefit, if oil is found from the recently announced gas and oil exploration project. The exercise, which commenced on November 1, is being facilitated ...

Although he is best known as a professional star in both football and baseball (first person to hit a MLB home run and score an NFL touchdown in the same week, and the only person to play in an MLB ...

Photo above: Michael Douglas at the 2013 Deauville Film Festival. Photo by Georges Biard. HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – Actor Michael Douglas was joined by dignitaries and invited guests, last week Wednesday, to celebrate the ground-breaking of a US$85 million redevelopment ...

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, CMC – The police in western Jamaica are probing the abduction and murder of a nurse, late last Wednesday. The police report that Janice Lamond Wilson, 54, a practical nurse, was walking with a child along the ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Air Traffic Controllers at the Grantley Adams International Airport who walked off the job on Monday, are now back on the job. The Air Traffic controllers have been protesting against poor working conditions. However, after a ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador, Courtenay Rattray, has been appointed as Chair of the UN Intergovernmental Negotiations on Security Council reform. His appointment was announced on Tuesday by President of the 69th Session of ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Renowned Jamaican and international jurist, Patrick Robinson, has been elected to serve a judge in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for a nine year period beginning in February 2015. Both the United Nations General Assembly ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, CMC – A Jamaican man who has been charged with the murder of his former supervisor at a resort in Alabama in the United States in September is now in custody of federal immigration authorities who ...

NEW YORK, New York, CMC – With United States President Barack Obama vowing to proceed on immigration reform by executive order, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday signed two bills that would drastically limit the federal government’s ...