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PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Apr. 6, (CMC) – Haiti’s newly appointed nine-member Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) has hinted at the possibility of delaying the April 24 presidential election run-off, claiming that the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country is not yet ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Apr. 6, (CMC) – The state-owned Caribbean Airlines (CAL) has denied a local television report that one of its aircraft had been detained in Venezuela, this week, and released only after the crew had handed over ...

BRISBANE, Australia, Apr. 6, (CMC) – A study by the University of Queensland (UQ) has found that new science-based fishery regulations are needed if coral reefs are to have a future in the face of climate change. The new study, ...

Photo above is of Former Jamaica Finance Minister, Dr. Peter Phillips. KINGSTON, Jamaica, Apr. 5, (CMC) – The main opposition People’s National Party (PNP) says the new Andrew Holness government’s lack of transparency will have a crippling effect on public ...

Photo above: Dr. Leonard Shorey. Photo courtesy of the Barbados Nation newspaper. BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Apr. 5, (CMC) – Prominent Barbadian educator, Dr. Leonard Shorey, has died, following a brief illness. He was 91. Shorey has been described as a pioneer ...

Photo above: Bahamas Financial Services Minister, Hope Strachan. Photo credit: Bahamas government. NASSAU, Bahamas, Apr. 5, (CMC) – The Bahamas government, today, described as “disconcerting”, the so-called “Panama Papers”, which alleged that a number of world leaders and other prominent ...

By Dr. Patrick I. Gomes CMC Guest Writer BRUSSELS, Apr. 5, 2016 (CMC) — Development cooperation in the 21st century is compelled to move beyond the simplistic paradigm of transferring funds from the developed North to the developing South. With ...

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, Apr. 5, (CMC) – The head of the Carnival Band Association (CBA), Hugh Raguette, will return to court, on June 30, to answer four counts of trying to defraud the United States Embassy in Barbados. Raguette pleaded ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Apr. 5, (CMC) – Jamaica is looking to export ginger by increasing production, the general manager of the Export Division of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Byron Henry, has said. Henry said the authorities will ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Apr. 5, (CMC) – Police have arrested two daughters of 64-year-old Roger Manikam, after his body was found dumped on the Railway Embankment at Coldingen, along the East Coast of Demerara, over the weekend. Police said that they ...