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KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 18, 2017 (CMC) – The Jamaica government has moved to quell criticism from the local construction industry, over its decision to use a Chinese firm to design the country’s new Parliament building. Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, in ...

By Ernie Seon CMC Caribbean Correspondent CASTRIES, St. Lucia, March 17, 2017 (CMC) – The St. Lucia-born poet and playwright, Sir Derek Alton Walcott, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, and had the distinction of bringing the ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 16, 2017 (CMC) — The executive director of the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC), Dr. Delroy Gordon, died suddenly, early today, at a hospital in the eastern parish of Portland. Gordon joined the JCDC – the organization ...

ROSEAU, Dominica, March 16, 2017 (CMC) – The management of the St. Croix-based Hummingbird Air is currently in negotiations with a new management group, as the carrier prepares to suspend its services as of April 1. Managing Director of Hummingbird ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 16, 2017 (CMC) – Leader of the main opposition People’s National Party (PNP), Portia Simpson Miller, added her voice to others, who have called on the Andrew Holness administration to reverse the J$13.5 billion (One Jamaica dollar ...

By Desmond Brown IPS Contributing Writer GEORGETOWN, Guyana, March 16, 2017 (IPS) — As Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries continue to build on the momentum of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement and the 22nd Conference of the Parties (COP22) of the ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, March 16, 2017 (CMC) – The Energy and Petroleum Commission in Venezuela has rejected the oil operations in Guyana’s Essequibo region. According to a report in El Nacional – a Venezuelan newspaper — the Energy and Petroleum Commission ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 15, 2017 (CMC) – National Security Minister, Robert Montague, says more than 150 guns and over 1, 500 rounds of ammunition have been seized by law enforcement authorities so far this year. Montague said that up until ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, March 15, 2017 (CMC) – A 55-year-old British engineer has died after he fell into a concrete mixer at a construction site in Matilda, Princes Town, south of here yesterday, police said. Police said ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, March 15, 2017 (CMC) – A High Court judge will, on May 16, rule whether or not the former chairman of CL Financial, Lawrence Duprey, can change his defence in a matter in which ...