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CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Apr. 5, (CMC) – The St. Lucia-based Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and the St. Kitts-based Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) are moving towards strengthening their working relationship. An OECS statement said, today, that the Director-General, ...

Photo above: Opposition Leader, Arnhim Eustace. By Kenton X. Chance CMC Correspondent KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Apr. 4, (CMC) – A High Court judge, today, denied a government application to throw out the opposition New Democratic Party (NDP) ...

Photo above: Baroness Patricia Scotland. Photo credit: Caribbean News Service. LONDON, England Apr. 4, (CMC) – The new Commonwealth Secretary General, Baroness Patricia Scotland, began her first day at work, today, to the rhythm of a steel band, the sound ...

Photo above: T&T Prime Minister, Dr. Keith Rowley. PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, Apr. 4, (CMC) – Prime Minister, Dr. Keith Rowley, has described the crime situation in Trinidad and Tobago as a “national crisis”, and how vowed that ...

WASHINGTON, DC Apr. 4, (CMC) – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) said, today, it had committed US$3.8 billion for projects that target climate change adaptation and mitigation, renewable energy and environmental sustainability in Latin America and the Caribbean last year. ...

WASHINGTON, DC Apr. 4, (CMC) – Jamaican Margarette May Macaulay has been elected to the Board of the Inter-American Commission on Human rights (IACHR). May Macaulay, an attorney, also served as a Judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ...

Photo above: EU Ambassador to the Eastern Caribbean, Mikael Barford, meets with St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister, Dr. Timothy Harris. BASSETERRE, St. Kitts and Nevis, Apr. 3, (CMC) – The European Union has disbursed EC$12.5 million, as part of ...

Photo above: William Mahfood, President of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), is also a Board Member of Jamaica National Building Society (JNBS). Photo credit: JNBS. KINGSTON, Jamaica, Apr. 3, (CMC) – Jamaicans are being urged to boycott goods from ...

By Moyiga Nduru JUBA, South Sudan, Mar 30 2016 (IPS) – A single phone call from an irate security official is enough to shutdown a newspaper in Sudan. Security agents sometimes employ unorthodox methods: they storm the premises of a ...

Photo above: Irene Tuwei holding a certificate of recognition for being a top saver, she is a role of model of what simple and well-thought out economic interventions can do. Credit: Miriam Gathigah/IPS By Miriam Gathigah GAZA, Mozambique, Apr 1 ...