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ROSEAU, Dominica, November 18, 2019 (CMC) – Police fired teargas to disperse protestors, who had gathered outside the residence of President Charles Savarin, demanding electoral reform, ahead of the December 6 general election. Police have erected barriers, leading to the ...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, November 15, 2019 (CMC) – The Grenada government says it has reached an agreement with the Grenada Union of Teachers (GUT), providing for a four percent increase in salaries for teachers, over the period 2020-22. A government ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, November 15, 2019 (CMC) – The Director-General in the Ministry of the Presidency, Joe Harmon, announced, yesterday, that he is no longer the holder of U.S. citizenship . Harmon was among four government Ministers, who were forced to ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, November 15, 2019 (CMC) – The Jamaica government says it is has granted nearly 90 exploratory licences for semi-precious minerals, such as cobalt, copper, gold, silver and zinc, since March, last year. “Right now, almost every square inch ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, November 15, 2019 (CMC) – The Alliance For Change (AFC), the minority partner in the coalition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) government, said, today, it remains optimistic that talks on a successful renegotiation of the Cummingsburg Accord ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, November 15, 2019 (CMC) – Former Prime Minister, P.J. Patterson, has been named Statesman in Residence by the University of the West Indies (UWI). The creation of the new, non-staff post was approved by the UWI’s Regional Finance ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, November 13, 2019 (CMC) – Douglas Vaz, a former government minister with the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), is dead. Vaz, a former Industry and Commerce Minister, who was 83, died late Saturday. “It is with deep sadness ...

NAIROBI, Kenya, November 13, 2019 (CMC) – A senior United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) official, said, today, that there’s a growing problem of gender-based violence in Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. UNFPA Caribbean Director, Alison Drayton, who ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, November 13, 2019 (CMC) – The Guyana government announced, today, a new GUY$70,000 minimum wage for public servants. “In three-and-a-half years, the minimum wage has gone up by over 75 percent. I think by any stroke of circumstance, ...

ROSEAU, Dominica, November 13, 2019 (CMC) – The two main political parties continued their campaign for the December 6 general election, here, over the weekend, with Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit telling supporters that the future of Dominica is “at a ...