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KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – GraceKennedy has acquired the assets of USA food business, La Fe Foods Inc, through its wholly owned subsidiary, GraceKennedy Foods (USA) LLC, for US$26 million. Making the announcement, last Friday, GraceKennedy CEO, Don Wehby, stated, “This ...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Former Governor General Boswell Williams passed away at his Sans Souci residence here on Sunday. He was 88. Williams represented the Southern town of Vieux Fort in the legislature from 1974 to 1979 and was ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica has confirmed its first of the mosquito transmitted chikungunya virus. Chief Medical Officer in the Minister of Health, Dr. Kevin Harvey, confirmed the diagnosis on Thursday following receipt of a report from the Caribbean Public ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Nine men are expected to be charged on Friday after being held during a police raid of an underground factory in which fake Clarks shoes were being made. The police report that acting on information they ...

GEORETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The suspect in the murder of two homosexual sex workers early Sunday morning, committed suicide hours later in the day by setting himself afire. The suspect, Samuel Bristol, 31, doused himself with gasoline and set his ...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – A commanding performance by school principal, Wulstan Alfred, stage name ‘Walleigh’, earned him his second Calypso King title at last Saturday’s calypso finals at the Beausejour grounds in the island’s north. Alfred scored 737 points ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Water Minister, Robert Pickersgill has warned the country to brace for worsening drought conditions as the dry spell continues. In an address to the nation late Sunday, Pickersgill said the inflows into several large reservoirs were ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC –The Sugar Association of the Caribbean (SAC), says Guyana was the lead producer of sugar in the region up to the end of June. According to the SAC, the year-to-date figure for sugar production is 499,272 tons. ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Caribbean Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (CAIPA) has been awarded US$ one million by the Inter-America Development Bank (IDB) to execute several projects over the next two years geared towards increasing Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee has received the report from the Board of Inquiry set up to probe the May 23 unrest at the New Amsterdam Prison during which four prisoners were seriously chopped. During ...