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BELMOPAN, Belize, August 16, (CMC) – The Belize-based Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) says at a time when countries across the region are faced with economic challenges, innovation in one of its prime sectors—the fisheries and aquaculture sector—can spur the ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, August 16, 2016 (CMC) – Trinidad and Tobago police say they have discovered more than 1, 600 rounds of ammunition, hidden in an abandoned plot of land in Mon Repos, south of here. The ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, August 15, (CMC) – Jamaica’s Usain Bolt became the first athlete to win a hat-trick of Olympic 100 metres titles, when he stormed to 9.81 seconds in the final at the Rio Olympics here, last night. ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, July 21, 2016 (CMC) – The Prime Ministers of Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago have declared meetings, held over the last four days, a success. In a communiqué, issued on today, Jamaica’s Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, and his ...

By Friday Phiri IPS Africa Correspondent ABIDJAN, Cote d’Ivoire, July 20, 2016 (IPS) — Albert Kanga Azaguie no longer considers himself a smallholder farmer. By learning and monitoring the supply and demand value chains of one of the country’s staple ...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, July 19, 2016 (CMC) – A new Code of Conduct, forbidding public servants to “use their office for private gain” and “to allow their integrity to be justifiably called into question”, will be included in a new ...

WASHINGTON, DC July 19, 2016 (CMC) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut its forecasts for economic growth in the Caribbean and Latin America over the next two years, as the unexpected United Kingdom vote to leave the European ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, July 19, 2016 (CMC) – Parliament has passed the Telecommunications (Amendment) Bill that the government said would, effectively, bring to an end a monopoly enjoyed by one company in the telecommunications sector. “This legislation will allow other companies ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, July 19, 2016 (CMC) – The Integrity Commission, today, warned it is prepared to go to court to get more than 1,400 people in public life, here, to file a declaration, or a statement ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, July 19, 2016 (CMC) – The Barbados economy grew by 1.3 per cent, over the first six months of 2016, compared to virtually no growth, a year ago, according to figures released, today, by the Central Bank of ...