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Photo above is of Philip Banks. NEW YORK, New York, CMC – A Grenadian American legislator has joined his New York City Council colleague in expressing outrage over the resignation of the Black chief of the New York Police Department ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., CMC – A new study of emergency department patients in 18 countries, including Guyana, shows that the risk of injury caused by acute alcohol consumption is higher for women compared with men. While the risk of injury is ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Former West Indies fast bowler, Daren Powell, has been selected to contest the North West St. Elizabeth constituency on behalf of the ruling People’s National Party (PNP) in the next general election. Powell, 36, the Councillor ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Pan American Health Organization and the World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) say they are mobilizing teams of experts in outbreak alert and response to help member states in Latin America and the Caribbean ensure they are ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Austin Jack Warner was returned as political leader of the minority opposition Independent Liberal Party (ILP) after Lyndira Oudit, who was elected unopposed in June, quit on Sunday. Oudit, who had quit her position ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Former Jamaican Prime Minister P.J. Patterson has been awarded J$12.5 million (One Jamaica dollar =US$0.002 cents) in damages in the libel case against Nationwide News Network and its head, Cliff Hughes.  The award resulted from a ...

By Neil Armstrong Pride Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario – Anyone who has seen Anne-Marie Woods, aka Amani, perform her spoken word knows exactly what to expect – her tell-it-like-it-is rhetoric about living in Toronto laced with satire and thought-provoking observations ...

NC – Millennials are the cohort born around 1980 – and as entrepreneurs they are really shaking things up. This emerging business segment is characterized by their increasing use of technology to remain constantly connected, to seek information, and to ...

Editor: It is much easier to discuss the murder of young black men in Toronto than it is to discuss the legalisation of drugs. The number of young black men murdered is small compared to the number of young men ...

By Rupert Johnson  It is indeed ironic that every year since 1962 Jamaicans celebrate enthusiastically the island’s political independence, although economic independence continues to slip away at an unprecedented rapid rate. Even though I do not condone full-blown economic nationalism, ...