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By Garwin Davis Contributing Writer MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica August 9, 2017 — Internationally acclaimed reggae superstar, Jimmy Cliff, was, on Sunday, handed the Key to the City of Montego Bay. In front of scores of well-wishers, Cliff, who will forever ...

HAMILTON, Bermuda, August 3, 2017 (CMC) – Trinidadian soca star, Destra Garcia, has reportedly broken an ankle, after falling from a stage during her performance at a concert here, late yesterday. According to an eyewitness, the 38-year-old performer slipped between ...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, July 31, 2017 (CMC) – The Eastern Caribbean Collective Organisation for music rights, (ECCO) has won a landmark case in the High Court against Mega Plex Entertainment, which operates Caribbean cinemas, here and across the region. In ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, July 29, 2017 (CMC) – The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and the Host Broadcasters Agreement between Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and the Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU) will lead to maximum exposure for CARIFESTA XIII. At ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, July 28, 2017 (CMC) – The Barbados based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), says it will provide the initial capitalisation for a multi-donor fund to improve the competitiveness of the cultural and creative industries sector in its borrowing member ...

By Neil Armstrong Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario June 26, 2017 — For the first time since its inception in 1972, the Caribbean’s largest arts festival, Carifesta, has agreed to the participation of a delegation of artists from the Caribbean Diaspora. ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, May 19, 2017 (CMC) – Jamaican Reggae artiste, Frankie Paul, 52, died at the University Hospital of the West Indies, following a long illness. Paul, whose real name was Paul Blake, was born blind, but received some vision ...

NEW YORK, New York May 11, 2017 (CMC) – The city of New York has honored Caribbean-American singer and social activist, Harry Belafonte, by renaming the 115th Street Library in Harlem, the Harry Belafonte – 115th Street Library. Belafonte,90, whose ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, May 1, 2017 (CMC) – Trinidadian actor and bodybuilder, Brett Bengochea, died by drowning, while at a beach, east of here, on Saturday. The police report that Bengochea, 36, known for his role in ...

By A. D. McKenzie IPS Europe Correspondent PARIS, France March 29, 2017 (IPS) — It’s one of those movie-like spring days in Paris, where blue skies and brilliant sunshine lift spirits after a long, wet, grey winter. Many people are ...