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By Kenton X. Chance CMC Jamaica Correspondent KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC) — Sitting in the driver’s seat of her vehicle inside New Forest/Duff House Agro-Park in south of Manchester, Carmeta Atkins easily fits the stereotypical description of a Caribbean farmer. She ...

PARIS, France (CMC) – St. Kitts-Nevis Prime Minister Dr. Timothy Harris has called on the international community to “negotiate and agree a legally-binding agreement with ambitious emission reduction targets”. Addressing the 21st Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention ...

By Thalif Deen IPS New York Correspondent UNITED NATIONS, New York (IPS) — When the climate summit opened in Paris on Monday, the mood was overwhelmingly pessimistic — largely about the current state of the global environment. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC) – Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has expressed sadness at the sudden passing of Roman Catholic priest, Monsignor Richard Albert. The priest who was born in New York and made Jamaica his home for close to four ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has again urged persons to take every precaution to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes, especially in the wake of the mosquito borne Zika disease being detected in Suriname ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC) – Health Minister Horace Dalley has instructed the authorities at two Corporate Area Hospitals to refrain from burying the bodies of babies that have been in the morgue – some for several months. Dalley issued the order ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) – The government has given the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry two more weeks to complete its report on findings related to the death of Guyanese historical and politician, Dr. Walter Rodney Demerara Waves Online News has ...

ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC) – Dominica’s politicians closed ranks and congratulated Baroness Patricia Scotland who was elected as the first female secretary general of the Commonwealth Secretary General in Malta on Friday. Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit’s administration had nominated the former ...

VALLETTA, Malta (CMC) — Britain’s former attorney general Baroness Patricia Scotland was elected Secretary General of the Commonwealth, last Friday, replacing the outgoing Indian former foreign affairs minister, Kamlesh Sharma. Baroness Scotland who was nominated by Dominica for the post, ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC) – Three weeks after a family of four went missing from the community of Lime Hall in the northern parish of St. Ann, the police have intensified their probe. The missing, including a seven year old and ...