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By Fabiana Frayssinet Brazil Correspondent RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (IPS) – Carla Vilas Boas is of mixed-race descent – African, European and indigenous – like a majority of the population of Brazil. But she spends hours straightening her hair, trying ...

By Ramy Srour U.S. Correspondent WASHINGTON, D.C. (IPS) – Near the Martin Luther King Jr. Library in downtown Washington, just a few blocks away from the federal district, dozens of homeless men and women wait for the evening shuttles that ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – Cuba’s new Ambassador to Jamaica, Bernardo Guanche Hernandez, says his country is looking to deepen cooperation with Jamaica in the area of trade. “The bilateral relations between our two countries have reached its highest points so ...

PASADENA, California CMC – One of the Caribbean’s leading medical schools has sued a former student for trademark violation and dilution, cybersquatting and breach of contract. Ross University School of Medicine in Dominica filed a civil suit in US Federal court ...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia CMC – The St. Lucia Government said, on Tuesday, that it has now received confirmation that the Hess Terminal at Cul de Sac has been sold. According to a Government statement, the confirmation came in a telephone ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados CMC – The Barbados government has signed an agreement with Sandals Resorts International (SRI) paving the way for the Jamaica-based hotel chain to take control of the Almond Beach Village. The Freundel Stuart administration also announced that SRI ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – The authorities in the United States have arrested and charged Jamaican dancehall entertainer, Andrew Davis, more popularly known as “Flippa Mogla”, for his involvement in an international drug trafficking ring. The United States law enforcement authorities ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – The Jamaica government has placed a six month suspension on the importation of jet skis into the country as it moves to regulate the industry. Tourism and Entertainment Minister, Dr. Wykeham McNeil, said that Cabinet had ...

QUEENSLAND, Australia CMC – A new study by scientists at James Cook University here, has found that the Red Lionfish, also known as the “ghost fishes of the coral reefs”, continue to invade the Caribbean in record numbers. The spiny, ...

ROSEAU, Dominica CMC – A High Court judge, Friday, sentenced a 72-year-old man to 25 years in prison after he was found guilty of killing and decapitating a 32-year-old man. Justice Birnie Stephenson described the murder of Damian Dorival as ...