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ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada CMC – Former Foreign Affairs, Legal Affairs and Local Government Minister, Dr. Raphael Fletcher has died after a prolonged illness. He was 86. Fletcher, a physicist and university lecturer, came to national attention when he resigned from ...

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua CMC – Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer on Monday led legislators in paying tribute to former government minister Sir Adolphus Freeland who died over the weekend. He was 79. Spencer led both government and opposition parliamentarians in paying ...

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts CMC – The opposition party here on Monday called on law enforcement authorities to bring to “swift justice” anyone involved in criminal activities in St. Kitts and Nevis, as police continued their search for the gunmen who ...

WASHINGTON, DC CMC – The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) says the District Court in the District of Columbia has dismissed a challenge filed by two banking associations challenging regulations governing offshore tax avoidance in the Caribbean and other ...

NEW YORK, U.S.A. CMC – Law enforcement authorities here say prosecutors may this week empanel a grand jury and elevate charges to murder against a Jamaican-born transgender woman accused of killing a four-year-old boy. Prosecutors have charged Kryzie King, 27, ...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada CMC – Grenada says it has deported 135 people last year, mainly from Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries, for violating immigration regulations or did not meet the requirements for entering the spice Isle. Head of the Immigration Department, ...

Stockholm, Sweden CMC – The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has reported further increase in the number of confirmed and probable cases of the Chikungunya virus on the French side of St. Martin and other Caribbean islands. ...

UTAH, U.S.A. CMC – Police are warning residents not to answer calls coming from the 473 international area code, assigned to Grenada, Carriacou and Petit Martinique in the Caribbean. Utah police said the phone scam could result in a huge, unwanted ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) says some commercial banks operating here are failing to provide customers with key documentation enabling them to benefit from a reduction in their mortgage interest rate. GRA said it was dissatisfied ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. CMC – The United States says it has held “successful” migration talks with Cuban officials, reflecting “longstanding US priorities on Cuba-US migration issues.” US Department of State spokesperson, Jen Psaki, said, last Friday, that officials from Washington and ...