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By Elaine Reckord JIS Reporter  KINGSTON, Jamaica September 15, 2017, (JIS) — The Republic of Korea has donated three motor vehicles valued at US$100,000 to the government of Jamaica. The gift was made possible through the Korea International Cooperation Agency ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, September 15, 2017 (CMC) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says Jamaica is likely to receive US$180 million in October, after an IMF delegation reached a preliminary agreement with the authorities on a set of policies that aims ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, September 15, 2017 (CMC) – A&V Oil and Gas Limited, the company at the center of a so called “fake oil” controversy, is condemning an audit report done by the state-owned oil company, PETROTRIN, ...

ROSEAU, Dominica, September 15, 2017 (CMC) – President of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Dr. Warren Smith, has come out in support of regional countries implementing the controversial Citizenship by Investment Program (CIP), through which citizenship is afforded to ...

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts-Nevis, September 14, 2017 (CMC) – The government of St. Kitts-Nevis has offered to accommodate secondary school students, from islands that were severely affected by the passage Hurricane Irma, and who are registered to sit Caribbean Examination Council ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, September 14, 2017 (CMC) – The police have detained several people for questioning, following the seizure of a significant cache of guns and ammunition that arrived, by sea, from Trinidad and Tobago . The police said that 16 ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, September 14, 2017 (CMC) – The new chancellor for the University of the West Indies will be installed, on the weekend, in a ceremony to be held at the university’s St. Augustine Campus in Trinidad and Tobago. Robert ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, September 14, 2017 (CMC) – The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) have launched an investigation into the circumstances, under which a medical doctor, assigned to the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH), was found dead at her Corporate Area home, late ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, September 14, 2017 (CMC) – A new study has found that poverty is on the rise in Barbados, with 17.5 percent of the population living in poverty, up from 15.1 percent in 2010. The findings of the Barbados ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, September 13, 2017 (CMC) – Barbadians have an inclination towards an American values system, according to the findings of a study that examined the country, 50 years after it obtained political independence from Britain. The report on the ...