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By Devinder Sharma Guest Writer  NEW DELHI, India (Columnist Service) – The battle lines are clearly drawn. At a time when food security in the developing countries is snowballing into a major trade conflict between the developed and developing countries, ...

By Desmond Brown Caribbean Correspondent GEORGETOWN, Guyana (IPS) – It’s a dirty, smelly business, but wastewater is gaining prominence across the Caribbean as countries from Jamaica in the west to Guyana in the south increasingly recognize its effects on the ...

By Marvin Hokstam Suriname Correspondent  PARAMARIBO, Suriname CMC – The Vice President of Bulgaria has ordered a probe into what could be a passport scam in which a website that offers Bulgarian passports for US$5,900. Vice President, Margarita Popova, has ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – The Banking Insurance and General Workers Union (BIGWU) Monday, criticized the Trinidad and Tobago government for “abandoning” former employees of the collapsed Colonial Life Insurance Company (CLICO) as they staged a protest march outside ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – Jamaican reggae singer, Junior Murvin Smith, died at his home on Monday. He was 64. Media reports said that Murvin, best known for his song “Police and Thieves” in 1976, was suffering from an advanced stage ...

Lack of single-family homes in established neighbourhoods key regional factor driving up GTA home prices: new report TORONTO, Ontario — Home prices in the Greater Toronto Area continue to rise, in part because of the limited supply of single-family homes ...

Old Hollywood was an era of glamour that was admired, envied and emulated around the world. Rita Hayworth, Marlene Dietrich, Grace Kelly, and Audrey Hepburn graced the big screen with their handsome and romantic male counterparts such as Marlon Brando, ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – Argentina has bestowed the Grand Cross of the Order of the General Liberator of San Martin on Guyana’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, who ended a two-day visit to the country over the last weekend. A ...

ROSEAU, Dominica CMC – Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, became a father for the second time, last Wednesday, after his wife, Melissa, gave birth to a boy, according to an official statement issued here. It said, that Dmitry Roosevelt Skerrit weighed ...

ROSEAU, Dominica CMC – Vernon Lorden Shaw, 83, who served as Dominica’s fifth head of state, died Monday at the Princess Margaret Hospital. A brief statement on the state-owned DBS radio said that Shaw, a career public servant who also ...