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CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – St. Lucia’s Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony says the island is being pressured into accepting same-sex marriages in a bid to further develop its tourism industry. Addressing the 16th biennial convention of the Union of Saint ...

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The Antigua and Barbuda government says it has put together an investigative team to probe some of the projects undertaken by the previous administration headed by Baldwin Spencer. Chief of Staff Lionel Hurst, speaking on ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) says it is making every effort to return customers to normal service after the government called on the sole electricity provider to explain the spate of power outages on the ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The police are investigating an incident that led to the shooting of three persons in the busy thoroughfare of Half Way Tree Square on Sunday afternoon. The police report that shortly after 2pm motorists and pedestrians ...

WASHINGTON, DC, CMC – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved US$6.4 million for St. Vincent and the Grenadines to help the country meet an “urgent balance-of-payments need” due to severe flooding and landslides in December last year that killed ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica government Monday announced the establishment of a new anti-crime agency that it said formed part of the strategy to create a national law enforcement agency. National Security Minister Dr. Peter Bunting told a news ...

By Peter Richards Trinidad Correspondent  PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The coalition People’s Partnership government, gearing up for a general election by mid- 2015, has introduced legislation providing for 10-year term limit for the head of government as well ...

By Lincoln Depradine Pride Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario – Festival Management Committee (FMC) organizers and mas’ lovers agree on one thing: This year’s Scotiabank Toronto Caribbean Carnival parade did not go as expected. The FMC “planned well’’, chief administrative officer, ...

By Lincoln Depradine Pride Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario – Canada is providing $15 million in funding “to enhance public financial management in the Caribbean’’, federal finance minister Joe Oliver has announced. Jamaica is receiving  five million of the $15 million ...

By Dwain Wellington Rattray Pride Editorial Operations Manager The island’s spirit always enchants my soul. Jamaica is more than sand, sea and sun; it is more that reggae music and jerk chicken or jerk pork. The “Land of Wood and ...