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GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – The Guyana government is warning the public to be aware of fraudsters attempting to sell them house lots as it announced plans for the start of the 1,000 homes turn-key initiative. Housing and Water Minister, Irfaan ...

ROSEAU, Dominica CMC – The Ministry of Health, here, has issued an alert concerning an outbreak of dengue fever. So far seven cases of the disease have been confirmed while the authorities are awaiting confirmation on eighteen suspected cases. There ...

TEXAS, U.S. CMC – A United States federal district judge has dismissed a lawsuit against President Obama’s policy to defer deportation for some young illegal Caribbean immigrants. In his ruling, Judge Reed O’Connor dismissed the lawsuit for “lack of subject ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – Governor-General Sir Patrick Allen says he hopes the signing of Jamaica’s first ever social partnership agreement will be the start of the transformation, which will propel the country towards the achievement of Vision 2030, even sooner ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – The Central Committee of the ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP) will meet soon to elect a new executive committee following the party’s 30th Congress that ended, here, on Sunday. President Donald Ramotar, who served as general ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – The police are searching for a man who chopped his wife and three of their children late Thursday. According to police reports, Dorothy Blackman, 47, a newspaper vendor, was at home when her husband, Shawn Fordyce, ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – More than two years after they were injured when a Caribbean Airlines (CAL) plane overshot the runway at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), eight of the passengers have filed a lawsuit against the Trinidad-based carrier. ...

LANSING, Michigan CMC – A new study by Michigan State University (MSU) has found that major depression is a serious public health problem among older Caribbean immigrants. Amanda Toler Woodward, lead investigator on the study and MSU associate professor of ...

By Nelson A. King LONDON, England CMC – Britain had been against United States plans to invade Grenada in 1983, according to documents released Thursday by the National Archives, here.    The documents indicate that then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, ...

TORONTO, Canada CMC – Organizers of the Caribbean Carnival parade, here, have expressed “heartfelt sympathies” to the friends and family of a teenage reveller who died after he was reportedly ran over by a float over the weekend. “We are ...