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By Peter Richards CMC Correspondent PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, August 9, 2017 (CMC) – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders held “varied and robust views” on the ongoing political situation in Venezuela, during a three-hour meeting, yesterday. No official statement ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, August 9, 2017 (CMC) – Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, has described as “one of the vilest attacks on our young women”, the murder of 17-year-old school girl, Micholle Moltan, reportedly, because she refused to give into sexual demands ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, August 9, 2017 (CMC) – The United States Embassy, here, said it had been collaborating with the Barbados police in a two year investigation of a Barbadian fugitive, accused of defrauding elderly nationals of US$130,000. Hainsley Browne was ...

NEW YORK, New York August 9, 2017 (CMC) – Caribbean-American legislators are calling for a probe into the July 31 fatal shooting of an emotionally disturbed Guyanese national by a New York Police Department (NYPD) officer, as outrage intensifies in ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, August 9, 2017 (CMC) – Jamaica has recorded 893 murders since the start of the year, with June being the month with the highest number of killings, according to official figures released here. The National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, August 9, 2017 (CMC) – A 51-year-old grandmother was sentenced to four years in jail, today, for the possession of cocaine and taking full responsibility for the drugs that had originally landed her 17-year-old grandson and former national ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, August 3, 2017 (CMC) – Deputy Program Manager for Information and Communication Technology (ICT),at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, Jennifer Britton, says the development of applications, such as the recently launched CXC Connect, is critical to the CARICOM ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, August 3, 2017 (CMC) – Minister of Citizenship, Winston Felix, has refuted what he has called dangerous and false allegations, made by Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo, who has accused the government of engaging in “people smuggling”. Jagdeo was ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, August 3, 2017 (CMC) – Trials to ascertain which areas in Guyana are conducive for the production of Quinoa, are likely to commence this September. The National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI), Felix Quinoa Farming Industry (FQFI), ...

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago August 3, 2017 (CMC) – The Airports Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (AATT) says as many as 30 passengers, on board an American Airlines flight, were injured during turbulence, as the aircraft approached the Piarco International ...