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KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC) – The National Council on Drug Abuse (NCDA) has launched the Youth Ganja Awareness Program, geared towards discouraging marijuana (ganja) use among young people, particularly those between the ages 13 and 18 years. NCDA executive director, Michael ...

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (CMC) – A team of United States researchers is seeking to solve a generation old mystery: do indigenous communities still exist in the Caribbean region today? The researchers, led by Professor Theodore Schurr from the Department of Anthropology ...

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) – Justice Minister Pierre-Richard Casimir says, the police “will not tolerate any violent demonstration” in the French speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country following the release of the preliminary results of the October 25 legislative and ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC) – The Jamaica Manufacturers’ Association (JMA) says, it is disappointed that those responsible for the nation’s public health have not been held responsible for their actions and appealed to Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller to ensure that ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC) – Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has ordered newly appointed Minister of Health, Horace Dalley, to “correct the shortcomings in the health sector”. In a broadcast to the nation late last Sunday, Simpson Miller addressed the issues ...

By Mzizi Kabiba IPS Africa Correspondent KAMPALA, Uganda (IPS) — Sixty-five years after a major international summit here on malaria, the mosquito-borne disease remains a scourge and its incidence may even be rising in parts of sub-Saharan Africa due to ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – The cash-strapped Guyana Sugar Corporation (GUYSUCO) is warning of a “grim Christmas for sugar workers” if they embark on further industrial action in a bid to force management to hold talks on salary increases. Last month, ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) – The main opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Monday, called on the Guyana government to deal with the ‘escalating” crime situation in the country and accused President David Granger of seeking to falsify the figures. “The recent ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – A senior prison official was shot and killed here Monday in what the authorities say could have been a hit ordered from within the prison walls. Superintendent Dexter Milette, 50, was shot several times ...

GRENADA — Grenadian author, Cindy McKenzie, officially presented her first novel, Force Ripe, on Saturday, October 24, to friends, family and a cross-section of Grenada’s literary advocates, including representatives from the Ministry of Education and Acting Chief Education Officer, Elvis ...