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GEORGETOWN, Guyana, November 14, 2018 (CMC) – President David Granger, today, began the second phase of treatment at a hospital in Cuba, after he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a disease in which malignant cancer cells form in the lymph ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, November 14, 2018 (CMC) – The Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), yesterday, ruled as “unconstitutional” a law in Guyana that makes it a criminal offence for a man or a woman to appear ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica November 14, 2018 — The Jamaica government is to undertake a national mitigation, sanitation, drain-cleaning and beautification program, at a cost of $997 million, over the next several weeks, leading into the Christmas season. The program will be ...

By Kenton X. Chance Contributing Writer KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent and the Grenadines November 12, 2018 (IPS) — As a child growing up in Mayreau four decades ago, Filius “Philman” Ollivierre remembers a 70-foot-wide span of land, with the sea on ...

By Jewel Fraser Contributing Writer PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago November 14, 2018 (IPS) — Four Caribbean countries have done an inventory of the major sources of mercury contamination in their islands, but a great deal of work still needs to ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, November 14, 2018 (CMC) – Four men, including a 19-year-old youth, will re-appear in court on December 11, after they were charged with being members of a gang, in contravention of the Anti-Gang legislation ...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, November 14, 2018 (CMC) – A construction workers, who sent nude photos to an underage male, through the social media platform, remained in custody, yesterday, even though a magistrate offered him EC$20,000 bail on Monday. Sheldon Alexander ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, November 12, 2018 (CMC) – Prime Minister, Moses Nagamootoo, called on the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to investigate reports of voter intimidation, as nationals cast ballots in the Local Government Elections (LGE) here, today. But while Nagamootoo, the ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, November 12, 2018 (CMC) – Former Barbados Prime Minister, Owen Arthur, who was recently conferred with the title, Professor of Practice: Economics of Development, by the Cave Hill campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), is ...

LONDON, England November 12, 2018 (CMC) – Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett, is among this year’s recipients of the International Institute for Peace through Tourism (IIPT) Champions in Challenge Award. The presentation took place at the International Travel Crisis ...