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By Douglas McIntosh JIS Contributing Writer ST. ANDREW, Jamaica, July 14 (JIS) — The government’s national cyber security public-education and awareness campaign is being funded, at a cost of over $15 million, by the Jamaica Bankers Association (JBA). Several member ...

By Alecia Smith-Edwards JIS Contributing Writer  NEW KINGSTON, Jamaica, July 14 (JIS) — Brand Jamaica is expected to be further bolstered through an ongoing initiative to promote the country’s tourism product, during the staging of the 2016 Summer Olympics in ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, July 14, (CMC) – Health Minister, Terrence Deyalsingh, has been released from the Port of Spain General Hospital. Deyalsingh was admitted to hospital, yesterday, for observation and treatment, following two days of “fever and ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, July 14, (CMC) – Prime Minister, Dr. Keith Rowley, today, criticised remarks made by a Hindu leader, who described former Prime Minister, Patrick Manning, as a “racist’ saying that the statements were “close to ...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, July 13, (CMC) – The leader of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Nazim Burke, yesterday, said he would not vote in support of legislation to reform the existing Constitution, ahead of a referendum scheduled for ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, July 14, (CMC) – The police in the northern parish of St. Ann have charged a man in connection with the murder of a three-year-old girl, on the weekend. On Wednesday evening Alexus Newland, also known as “Dal ...

By Chris Patterson JIS Contributing Writer  ST. ANDREW, Jamaica, July 13, (JIS) — Jamaica’s Traffic Police are urging motorists to desist from using flashing lights that replicate emergency vehicles. Under the law, emergency lights are to be used only by the ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, July 13, (CMC) – Jamaica is providing assistance to Guyana to strengthen its crime and security intelligence-gathering strategies and techniques, Police Commissioner, Seelall Persaud, has announced. Addressing the annual police awards ceremony, today, Persaud said the Jamaica Constabulary ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, July 13, (CMC) – Guyana has signed multi-million dollar contracts with local and Trinidad and Tobago companies to provide portable water to some ritual communities, in some instances, for the first time. The project is being executed by ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, July 13, (CMC) – The Principal of the Cave Hill campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Professor Eudine Barriteau, has made an impassioned plea for the Barbados government to meet its multi-million dollar debt to ...