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KINGSTON, Jamaica, September 12, 2017 (CMC) – The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is denying allegations of widespread sexual harassment within the service, amid allegations that some female police officers have not been promoted because they refused sexual advances from their ...

ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Islands, September 12, 2017 (CMC) – Premier, Dr. D. Orlando Smith, says rebuilding the Hurricane Irma-battered British Virgin Islands (BVI) will be “no small undertaking” and that a comprehensive economic package will be needed. Smith said ...

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda, September 12, 2017 (CMC) – The Antigua and Barbuda government, yesterday, announced plans to provide each Barbudan a Crown grant for one dollar, in order to obtain ownership, legally, of the lands they now occupy, ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, September 12, 2017 (CMC) — The Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Dr. Keith Mitchell, today, is leading a delegation to countries battered by Hurricane Irma that ploughed through the Lesser Antilles, last week, leaving a trial of ...

NASSAU, Bahamas, September 12, 2017 (CMC) – Prime Minister, Dr. Hubert A. Minnis, is providing a “second opportunity” to residents of Ragged Island to leave the battered place and move to safety, following the devastation caused by Hurricane Irma, when ...

By Kenton X. Chance CMC Contributing Writer ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Islands, September 12, 2017 (CMC) — At age 64, Aubrey Forbes has experienced several severe storms, including the devastating Marilyn of 1995, which many older Virgin Islanders use as ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, September 12, 2017 (CMC) – The European Union, yesterday, said it has a moral duty to help those in need whose lives and homes were destroyed or severely threatened by Hurricane Irma, as it made its way through ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, September 8, 2017 (CMC) – Hurricane Jose remained a powerful Category 4 storm, as it made its way towards the Northern Leeward Islands, today, as nervous residents hoped it would veer away and towards the open seas, over ...

GRAND CAYMAN, Cayman Islands, September 8, 2017 (CMC) – The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) says, it will be making payouts, totalling more than US$15.4 million, to three Caribbean countries affected by the passage of Hurricane Irma, earlier this ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, September 7, 2017 (CMC) – The administration of Dr. Keith Rowley is said to be failing in the fight against crime and violence. According to a poll, commissioned by the Trinidad Guardian newspaper, 36 ...