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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Mar. 6, (CMC) – Prime Minister, Dr. Keith Rowly, has sought to assure Trinidadians that the country is not bankrupt. Rowley, who addressed reporters at the end of a retreat in Tobago, yesterday, however, acknowledged that ...

WASHINGTON, DC Mar 5, (CMC) – The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) says, a US federal grand jury in the Southern District of Georgia, has indicted a woman for impersonating a Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) special agent in ...

MIAMI, Florida Mar. 6, (CMC) – The United States Coast Guard says, search-and-rescue crews are searching for a 46-year-old man, who fell from a Caribbean cruise ship, off the coast of Key Largo, Florida, early yesterday. The Coast Guard, today, ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Mar. 5, (CMC) – A 29-year-old woman, from the eastern parish of St. Mary, is the island’s third Influenza A (H1N1) or Swine Flu-related death. The patient, who was 22 weeks pregnant with twins, died on Tuesday. Chief ...

Photo above: Public Security Minister, Khemraj Ramjattan, left, and Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, talk to reporters, after meeting with prisoners. Photo credit: GINA. GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Mar 4, (CMC) – Public Security Minister, Khemraj Ramjattan, and Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, ...

Photo above is of T&T Planning and Development Minister, Camille Robinson-Regis, who said, that details of her banking transactions with First Citizens Bank had been leaked to the media. PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Mar 2, (CMC) – First Citizens Bank (FCB) ...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Mar 4, (CMC) – Amid an upsurge in suicides, the St. Lucia Crisis Centre (SCC) is appealing to citizens, particularly young people, who are “experiencing any kind of problem, to talk to somebody”. SCC Managing Director, Norma ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Mar 4, (CMC) – The Trinidad and Tobago government has defended its decision to support the move by the state-owned PETROTRIN oil company, to discontinue a multi-million dollar law suit brought against its former Executive Chairman, ...

Photo above: Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit and US Ambassador Linda Taglialatla. ROSEAU, Dominica, Mar. 4, (CMC) – Newly appointed United States Ambassador to Dominica, Linda Taglialatla, was welcomed to the island by Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, when she visited, yesterday, ...

Photo above: Jamaica’s new PM, Andrew Holness waves to the crowd after his swearing-in ceremony. Governor General, Sir Patrick Allen, stands to his left. KINGSTON, Jamaica, Mar. 3, (CMC) — The leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), Andrew Michael ...