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Photo above: St. Lucia Prime Minister, Dr. Kenny Anthony. Photo credit: The Commonwealth. CASTRIES St. Lucia, Mar. 21, (CMC) – Prime Minister, Dr. Kenny Anthony, has accused the last United Workers Party (UWP) administration of being “responsible for the so-called extra ...

Photo above: PPP General Secretary, Clement Rohee. GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Mar 21, (CMC) – The main opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP), today, said, that the results of the Local Government Elections (LGE) held, last Friday, should be regarded as a referendum on ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Mar 21, (CMC) – Former Transport, Works and Housing Minister, Dr. Omar Davies, has hinted at the possibility of quitting active politics, less than a month after the People’s National Party (PNP) was defeated in the February 25 ...

Photo above: Children from the Abu Shouk camp for internally displaced performed in 2015 traditional dances at the International Day of UN Peacekeepers, El Fasher, Sudan. Photo credit: UN Photo/Albert Gonzalez Farran. By Kareem Ezzat IPS Correspondent CAIRO, Egypt Mar. 20, ...

By Maddie Felts IPS Correspondent ROME, Italy Mar 20, 2016 (IPS) — Should a country’s development be measured in smiles instead of dollars? Increasingly, governments and organizations are measuring social progress through happiness. This is in marked contrast to the ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Mar 21, (CMC) – The diplomats of three Western countries, who monitored last Friday’s Local Government Elections (LGE), reiterated today that the elections, the first since 1994, were free, fair and transparent. But the United States Ambassador, Perry ...

HAVANA, Cuba, Mar. 20, (CMC) – US President, Barack Obama, arrived here, on Sunday afternoon, for historic talks with Cuban President, Raul Castro. “Looking forward to meeting and hearing directly from the Cuban people,” said Obama in a tweet, on ...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Mar. 20, (CMC) – St. Lucian diplomat, Dr. June Soomer, has been appointed Secretary General of the Trinidad-based, regional body, the Association of Caribbean States (ACS). Soomer’s position was confirmed at the recent inter-sessional summit of Caribbean ...

WASHINGTON, DC Mar. 20, (CMC) – The United States Coast Guard has removed the Conditions of Entry on vessels arriving from Cuba. Following a comprehensive assessment, the Coast Guard said, it has determined that “Cuba meets the International Ship and ...

Photo above: Jamaica Health Minister, Dr. Christopher Tufton. Photo credit: JLP. KINGSTON, Jamaica, Mar. 20, (CMC) – With an increase in the number of confirmed cases of the Zika virus, the Ministry of Health is conducting vector control and fever surveillance ...