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By Desmond Brown Guyana Correspondent VICTORIA, Guyana (IPS) – Theola Fortune can recall how residents of Victoria would ridicule her and others every time they went into the east coast village to warn residents about the importance of mangroves and ...

YORK, Pennsylvania CMC – The United States Immigration and Enforcement (ICE) agency says a female citizen of Antigua and Barbuda committed suicide while in the custody of immigration authorities at York County Prison in Pennsylvania. On Thursday, ICE reported that ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – The Jamaica government says it has implemented a five-year strategic plan aimed at tackling the prevalence of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in the country. Health Minister, Dr. Fenton Ferguson, said the plan would address the four major ...

NEW YORK, New York, CMC – As Vincentians in the United States celebrate their 34th anniversary of political independence from Great Britain, Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves says the country has made “remarkable” socio-economic strides. In his independence message to ...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada CMC – Thirty years after they were buried without a traditional funeral service, a head stone has been unveiled with the names of the 13 Grenadian soldiers who died during the United States led invasion of the ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Regional Governments have been told to heighten online security measures due to increasing attacks by cyber-criminals. According to the Chief Executive Officer for the Caribbean Cyber Security Centre, James Bynoe, attacks by cyber-criminals will be a ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. CMC – The United States Department of Defense (DOD) says officials from US Southern Command in Miami and the US Embassy in Grenada, on Friday, commemorated the 30th anniversary of a “multinational intervention that rescued Grenada from chaos ...

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent CMC – Public servants will benefit from a salary increase of 1.5 percent which will not be taxed when they are paid this week. The money is half of the three percent salary increase owed to them ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. CMC – Jamaica, The Bahamas and Trinidad and Tobago are leading the Caribbean in improving the region’s business climate, according to a new World Bank report released here, on Tuesday. The Washington-based financial institution said the three Caribbean ...

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts CMC – Economic conditions within the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) are expected to remain relatively subdued over the next few months even as preliminary data suggest that economic activity in the sub-region expanded at a ...