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The photo above shows Jamaica Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and Jamaica PM-designate, JLP Leader, Andrew Holness. KINGSTON, Jamaica, Feb 28, (CMC) – Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, today, called for Jamaicans to remain calm, as the recounting of ballots in ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Feb. 28, (CMC) – The People’s National Party (PNP) has secured another seat in the aftermath of the just-concluded general election. Late Saturday, Director of Elections, Orrette Fisher, said, the party’s candidate in the constituency of South Eastern ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Feb 27, (CMC) – The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) says, agricultural technicians, specialists and producers from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) will be able to benefit from a course on applied biotechnology in agriculture ...

The photo above is of the current members of the EITI Board — 2013-2015/16 — elected at the EITI Members Meeting on May 22, 2013. Photo courtesy of EITI. GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Feb 27, (CMC) – Guyana says, it is seeking to become a member of ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Feb 27, (CMC) – The Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) says, it is working with other agencies to save the remainder of the current rice crop, as El Niño weather conditions continue to adversely affect the industry. GRDB ...

NEW YORK, New York Feb 27, (CMC) – A major international credit rating agency has downgraded Suriname’s economic outlook from stable to negative. Fitch Ratings has also downgraded the Dutch-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country’s long-term foreign and local currency Issuer ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Feb 27, (CMC) – The leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and Prime Minister designate, Andrew Michael Holness, is expected to be sworn in, next Tuesday, as the island’s Prime Minister, following the February 25 general election, ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Feb 27, (CMC) – The 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping is deepening its relations with Japan and Israel. A CARICOM statement said, that since 1993, relations between CARICOM and Japan have been moving apace, evidenced by a Summit ...

By Charity Chimungu Phiri IPS Africa Correspondent BLANTYRE, Malawi, Feb 26, 2016 (IPS) — Imagine fleeing from your home because you feel unprotected by the people who are required to do so by law. And when you get to where ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Feb 26, (CMC) – A Caribbean Community (CARICOM) team that observed the general elections here, yesterday, said, that voters had been able to “cast ballots without intimidation” and that the results reflected “the will of the people of ...