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TORONTO, Ontario – For the fifteenth year, Festival Bana y’Afrique, a free event organized by Africa New Music – Afrique Nouvelle Musique is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of African music and culture in Toronto—returns to Harbourfront Centre. ...

By Norman (Otis) Richmond aka Jalali Pride Contributing Writer Bobby Womack has joined the ancestors. Womack died in his sleep on  June 27, 2014,  according to Los Angeles R & B legend, Charles Wright. Womack was born Robert Dwayne Womack March 4, 1944. His career ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica’s fourth head of state, Sir Howard Cooke, has died, He was 98. Sir Howard, who died on Friday, was regarded as one of the pioneers in Jamaica’s political movement and who also played a role ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A cancer stricken businessman, shot and killed his wife before committing suicide near the Shore of Peace cremation site at Mosquito Creek, south of here on Friday. Relatives said that 58-year-old Donald Ragoo had ...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – National Security Minister, Victor La Corbiniere has denied ‘rumours’ that members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), have submitted a report on their investigation into alleged extra-judicial killings by members of the Royal Saint Lucia ...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – The Director of the Environmental and Occupational Health Track of the Public Health Department of the St. George’s University is predicting a bleak future for the Caribbean amid concerns that the rate of sea level ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Sugar Industry Authority (SIA), says the multi-billion dollar sugar industry is now under major threat due to the effects of the worsening drought. SIA chairman, Ambassador Derrick Heaven, says the next crop could be in jeopardy ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Opposition legislators used their one-seat majority in the National Assembly to block legislation the government said was aimed at correcting a situation highlighted by a ruling of the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ). Prime Minister ...

UNITED NATIONS, CMC – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has urged Caribbean nationals and others in the Americas to decrease salt intake to help reduce hypertension – the leading risk factor for cardiovascular disease. “Salt reduction is recognized as ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Ministry of Agriculture is on a drive to increase sugar production to 450,000 tonnes in six years, while raising food production and security in other crops along with the major exports of rice and sugar. ...