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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Spanish energy company, Repsol says it has discovered an oil reserve estimated at 40 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe) in the waters off Trinidad’s south-east coast. In a statement, the company said ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica says it has made a successful return to the international money market after a three-year hiatus. A Jamaica Information Service (JIS) report noted that the island, bolstered by an order book of over $4 billion ...

By Tony Mbugguss Pride Guest Writer The day was finally here, the Durham Caribbean festival.  My French speaking neighbour from Montreal was up early and knocking on my door at 8am. “Bonjour, are we ready to go?” I told her ...

By Athaliah Reynolds-Baker Jamaica Correspondent Jamaica (JIS) – State Minister in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Sharon Ffolkes-Abrahams, says plans to protect the genre of Reggae music under the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) ...

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, CMC – A court has dealt a severe blow to a move towards the abolition of the “Zwarte Piet”, the blackface tradition in the Netherlands, after it ruled Thursday that the celebration does not lead to negative stereotyping ...

By Ravi Kanth Devarakonda Africa Correspondent  GENEVA,  Switzerland (IPS) – African countries are coming under strong pressure from the United States and the European Union to reverse the decision adopted by their trade ministers to implement the World Trade Organization’s ...

By Glenis Rose JIS Correspondent Jamaica (JIS) – Minister of Tourism and Entertainment, Hon. Dr. Wykeham McNeill, on Tuesday, July 1, led a team of tourism officials and several representatives from the Montego Bay business community, in welcoming the inaugural ...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – The Roman Catholic Church, on Monday, confirmed that a priest had been withdrawn from the ministry “with immediate effect” after he had a relationship with a male parishioner. “It was clear that the Priest crossed ...

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – A 65-year-old woman was stabbed to death and her husband hospitalized with serious injuries during an attack at their home over the weekend, police confirmed Monday. They said Hyacinth Hoyte was killed at Paget Farm ...

By Daniela Pastrana Mexico Correspondent  IRAPUATO, Mexico (IPS) – In early May, the Irapuato Migrants’ House, in the centre-west Mexican state of Guanajuato, took in a group of 152 Garifuna Afro-Caribbean people from Honduras. Sixty of them were children. “It ...