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GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – Director General of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), Zulfikar Mohammed, says pilot error led to the July 30, 2011 crash of a Caribbean Airlines flight. According to Mohammed, the report on the mishap will be ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – A Trinidadian national, employed as a research economist in Kenya, was among several people killed when Al Shabaab militant attackers held up Nairobi’s Westgate Shopping Mall over the weekend, killing at least 68 people. ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – Embattled Junior Works Minister, Richard Azan, has resigned hours after the main opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) announced it would boycott parliament if he failed to do so by Tuesday next week. Prime Minister, Portia Simpson ...

By Ramy Srour US Correspondent WASHINGTON, D.C. (IPS) – In the aftermath of the worst terror attack in East Africa in three years, foreign policy scholars here are urging the U.S. government to rethink its counter-terror policy in the region. ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – Jamaican law enforcement authorities have charged a businesswoman and two members of her family with facilitating human trafficking. The Organized Crime Investigation Division (OCID) of the Jamaica Constabulary Force has also charged Hermalinda Parker with human ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. CMC – The United States Department of State says Jamaicans and Haitians are among nationals not eligible to apply for the 2015 Diversity Visa Program (DV-2015). In making the announcement on Wednesday, the department also pointed out that ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – Vybz Kartel, the incarcerated dancehall performer, is reportedly in more trouble with the law. On Wednesday, the police reported back-to-back seizures of several contraband items from the cell occupied by Kartel, whose given name is Adidja Palmer. The ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government has placed a two-year ban on hunting as it moves to protect and conserve wildlife resources, here. “A two year moratorium will be placed on hunting in Trinidad and ...

Bel Air has been a sought after Los Angeles neighborhood for princes and princesses of industry, film and television and a few queens such as Elizabeth Taylor. It belongs to the Platinum Triangle of elite neighborhoods which include Beverly Hills ...

Being fired from a job, even an executive position, can be an opportunity of a lifetime, as was the case for Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank. The men met when Marcus was CEO of Handy Dan Home Improvement Centers and ...