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ALEXANDRIA, Virginia CMC – The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) agency says the Barbadian co-founder of an illegal drug company has been jailed for three years for conspiracy and sale of misbranded drugs. On Saturday, Talib Khan, 43,who ...

WASHINGTON D.C. CMC – A Jamaican national was arrested along with over 40 “at large criminal aliens”, during a five day law enforcement operation in Virginia this week. The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) agency, says agents from ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – More than 4,000 thousand sugar workers have threatened to take industrial action following weeks of failed negotiations, involving their unions and the Sugar Producers Federation (SPF) for improved wage and fringe benefits. The three unions representing ...

GENEVA, Switzerland CMC – The United Nations says Grenada is the only Caribbean country to join the “above-30 percent” club for the highest electoral gain for women in the world. In the latest annual review of Women in Parliament – ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – The head of the Hugh Lawson Shearer Trade Union Education Institute, Danny Roberts, says the public sector wage freeze that was implemented last year could go beyond the next three years. In 2013, some public sector ...

By Marvin Hokstam Netherlands Correspondent  AMSTERDAM, Netherlands CMC – A noted Dutch historian has warned Caribbean leaders that they should not expect much from their reparation claims against Europe even as they, on Monday, adopted a plan to further pursue ...

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders are hoping to hold talks with Europe in June on the issue of reparations for slavery and native genocide, St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves has said. ...

By Neil Armstrong Pride Contributing Writer Brampton, Ontario — Jamaica National Building Society’s Toronto Representative Office and JN Money Services recently collaborated with the Brampton A’s basketball league to host a themed night, Caribbean Night, where the winners of their ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – Nine members of a Canadian-based ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect, Lev Tahor, were deported to Canada on Saturday less than 48 hours after a High Court here dismissed an application for a habeas corpus writ to ...

By Lincoln Depradine Pride Contributing Writer One can get a sense of who – and what – are important to political leaders and candidates seeking electoral office, by listening to their campaign speeches. We are in the political season in ...