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ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, January 17, 2020 (CMC) – Kamau McBarnette, one of the 17 political prisoners, who were convicted in 1986 for the murder of then-left wing Prime Minister, Maurice Bishop, and several others, died, early Wednesday, after a long ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, January 17, 2020 (CMC) – A study, conducted by a Germany-based agency, has found that there is a high level of confidence in the integrity and independence of the Trinidad and Tobago-based Caribbean Court ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, Thursday, January 17, 2020 (CMC) – One medical doctor was killed, and another seriously injured, during a botched kidnapping, when the vehicle in which they were travelling crashed along the Solomon Hochoy Highway, south ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Thursday, January 16, 2020 (CMC) – The Guyana government, yesterday, labelled as “patently false”, a media report that President David Granger had awarded himself a salary increase. The Ministry of Finance, in a statement, said that the report ...

By Linda Straker CMC Correspondent ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, Thursday, January 16, 2020 (CMC) – Fifteen years after re-establishing diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China, Grenada, on Tuesday night, re-affirmed its commitment to adhere to the One-China policy, while ...

NASSAU, The Bahamas, Thursday, January 16, 2020 (CMC) – The Bahamas has been promised US$1.5 billion in assistance, as it seeks to rebuild the country that was battered by a Category 5 hurricane, last September. A United Nations Development Program ...

By Samira Sadeque IPS Contributing Writer UNITED NATIONS, New York Thursday, Jan 13 2020 (IPS) — While the United States is busy with foreign operations, such as killing Qasem Soleimani, a key figure in Middle East Politics, behind the scenes ...

By Busani Bafana IPS Africa Correspondent IBADAN, Nigeria, Thursday, January 16, 2020 (IPS) –– Africa will starve, or survive on expensive food imports, because it is not growing new farmers, research shows. And the challenge remains — among researchers, policy ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Thursday, January 16, 2020 (CMC) – The government is taking steps to craft legislation, to impose harsher sanctions for the owners of dogs that attack, injure and or cause the death of a person. This follows Cabinet’s approval ...

NEW YORK, New York Thursday, January 16, 2020 (CMC) – The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) agency says it has lodged a detainer with the New York Police Department (NYPD), following the arrest of a Guyana-born suspect in ...