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KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – As the debate rages over whether marijuana should be decriminalized, the University of the West Indies, Mona campus, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with a large US-based company to facilitate research into the medicinal ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. CMC – The World Bank has voiced concern about what it described as the exorbitant cost of sending remittances to the Caribbean and other places, saying that forcing migrant workers to pay as much as US$50 to send ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. CMC – The World Bank says remittances to the Caribbean are expected to remain robust this year, despite increased deportations of migrant workers. The Washington-based financial institution said that migrants from developing countries, including the Caribbean, are expected to ...

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent CMC – St. Vincent and the Grenadines has become the latest Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country to warn nationals about the low level of water at its reservoirs and the need to implement “strict water conservation measures”. St. ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – The police are investigating the circumstances surrounding a case of suspected murder-suicide involving a Police Constable and his wife. The police report that late Saturday, Constable Davian Thompson, 31, went to his home at the Oakland ...

UNITED NATIONS CMC – No Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country has yet ratified an agreement that went into effect Monday, allowing children the right to complain directly to the United Nations about alleged violations of their rights. UN child rights experts ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – Trinidad and Tobago police are investigating the circumstances that led a father to murder his two children before killing himself in Matura, east of here, on Sunday. They said Barry Karamath committed the crime ...

PARAMARIBO, Suriname CMC – Police, on Monday, confirmed they arrested a 24-year-old woman after a “cocaine ball” had been found in her vagina, as she was preparing to board a flight to Amsterdam. Police said the cocaine weighed 2, 317 ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – The Supreme Court Friday, granted an injunction to the Special Constabulary Force Association (SCFA) as it seeks to block moves by the Jamaica government to merge the island’s police forces. The SCFA had sought the injunction ...

By Neil Armstrong Pride Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario – The SickKids-Caribbean Initiative recently got a boost with the donation of a cheque of $10,000 from one hundred Jamaicans in Toronto. The project works with stakeholders across the English-speaking Caribbean to ...