KINGSTON, Jamaica, Feb 23, (CMC) – The police are investigating circumstances surrounding the shooting of seven supporters of the main opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) late Monday. The police, who believe that the attack was gang related, report that shortly ...
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Feed SubscriptionNobel Prize Winner, Derek Walcott, Named Among St. Lucia’s First Knighthood Recipients
Photo above: Derek Walcott, 86, named a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Lucia. CASTRIES, St. Lucia CMC – Derek Walcott, the 1992 Nobel Prize winner for Literature, has been named among the first recipients of the knighthood by St. ...
Read More »JAMAICA ELECTIONS: PNP Confident Of Victory; Urges No Violence
Photo above: PNP Leader, Portia Simpson Miller, fires up supporters at a recent election rally. Photo credit: PNP. By Peter Richards CMC Jamaica Correspondent KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC) – The ruling People’s National Party (PNP), Sunday night, expressed confidence of being ...
Read More »CARICOM Leaders Re-affirm Support For Guyana And Belize; Condemn Human Rights Abuse In Dominican Republic
Photo above — CARICOM Heads of Government following the two-day summit in Belize. Photo credit: CARICOM. PLACENCIA, Belize (CMC) – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders have re-affirmed their support for Belize and Guyana in their territorial disputes with Guatemala and Venezuela respectively. ...
Read More »Jamaica Opposition Party Defends Tax Policy
Photo above shows JLP Leader, Andrew Holness, bending and listening to a senior at an event on Labour Day, in 2014. Photo credit: JLP. By Peter Richards CMC Jamaica Correspondent KINGSTON, Jamaica, Feb 22, (CMC) – The main opposition Jamaica ...
Read More »Jamaica Police, Military Personnel And Election Day Workers To Vote Today
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Feb. 22, (CMC) – The Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) says, all is in place for members of the security forces and Election Day workers to vote today, ahead of Thursday’s general election. The EOJ says, 26,498 Election ...
Read More »Lobby Group Calls For Removal Of T&T Government Housing Minister
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Feb. 22, (CMC) – The lobby group, Fixin T&T, has stepped up its campaign for the removal of Housing Minister Marlene McDonald from office saying, her alleged involvement in the procurement of a house in 2008 ...
Read More »CARICOM Mounts Observer Mission To Jamaica Election
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is mounting a CARICOM Electoral Observer Mission to monitor the general elections in Jamaica on Thursday. The Mission is being headed by Josephine Tamai, Chief Elections Officer of the Elections and Boundaries ...
Read More »Sterilisation Of HIV-Positive Women
Photo above is of Rose Nakanjako, the Chairperson of Mama Clubs. Rose is HIV positive, but she was lucky that she was not sterilised and both of her children were born HIV negative. Photo credit: Wambi Michael/IPS. By Wambi Michael IPS ...
Read More »US President To Make Historic Visit To Cuba
Photo above: US President Barack Obama listens while meeting with Council of Economic Advisers Chairman, Jason Furman, and Jeffrey Zients, National Economic Council Director, in the doorway of the Oval Office, on January 28, 2016. (Official White House photo by Pete ...
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