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GEORGETOWN, Guyana, December 18, 2016 (CMC) – Guyana has welcomed the position of outgoing United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, that its border dispute with Venezuela be subjected to at least one more year of mediation. “The government of Guyana ...

PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos, December 18, 2016 (CMC) – Voters in Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), last Thursday, elected the nation’s first ever woman to head a government in this British Overseas Territory (BOT) and, in the process, booted Premier ...

By Robert Kibet IPS Correspondent NAIROBI, Kenya, December 12, 2016 (IPS) — Reengineering the framework of support by bringing in women as new actors in effective development cooperation will play a pivotal role in achieving the 2030 Agenda for the ...

By Kwaku Botwe IPS Ghana Correspondent KUMASI, Ghana, December 12, 2016 (IPS) — Ghanaian opposition leader, Nana Akufo-Addo, has made history as the first son of a former president to lead the West African country, beating incumbent President John Mahama ...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, December 12, 2016 (CMC) – The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), today, paid tribute to the late James Ronald Webster, the first Chief Minister of Anguilla, who died last Thursday. Chief Minister Victor Banks, who spoke ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago December 12, 2016 (CMC) – A new project — aimed at reducing the spread of HIV and improving health care for key populations, most at risk of and already living with HIV in select ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, December 6, 2016 (CMC) – Former finance minister, Dr. Peter Phillips, who on two occasions failed to win the presidency of the main opposition People’s National Party (PNP), says he will be throwing his hat in the ring ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, December 4, 2016 (CMC) – Less than a year after she led the People’s National Party (PNP) into defeat in the general elections, Portia Simpson Miller, is stepping down, a few days shy of her 71st birthday. Simpson ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, December 2, 2016 (CMC) – Britain’s Prince Harry arrived here, today, on the final leg of his 15-day Caribbean tour, laying wreaths at the Independence Arch and the British War Memorial. Prince Harry, who flew in from Barbados, ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago December 2, 2016 (CMC) – The Trinidad and Tobago government, today, said it is re-negotiating the TT$6.3 billion Caribbean Gas Chemical Ltd. (CGCL) plant in La Brea, south of here, after accusing the former ...