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KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC) – Jamaica has a launched a new initiative that will allow the country’s more than 100,000 public servants, who recently agreed to a three-year wage freeze as part of the island’s economic reform program, to receive cash ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) – Hundred’s attended the burial of slain New York Police Department (NYPD) Officer, Randolph Holder, who was buried here with a 21-gun salute, last Saturday. Mourners walked past the street where Holder, 33, was raised and onto ...

The photo above is of Dr. Bhoendradatt Tewarie. Photo credit: T&T government. PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, October 29, (CMC) – Trinidad and Tobago, today, announced that it has withdrawn its candidate for the Office of Secretary General of the Commonwealth. ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, October 29, CMC – After just 17 months on the job, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Caribbean Airlines (CAL), has resigned, with immediate effect. Michael DiLollo, 48, who was appointed CEO in May, cited personal ...

The photo above is of the foreign ministers of Cuba and the United Arab Emirates, Bruno Rodríguez (right) and Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, during the October 5, 2015 agreement-signing ceremony in Cuba’s ministry of foreign affairs in Havana. Photo credit: ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – The executive director of the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCJF), Dr. Zoe Simpson, says the rate of adolescent pregnancies in Jamaica is trending down, as a result of several interventions by government. She said, the ...

WILLEMSTAD, Curacao (CMC) – The chief executive officer of the regional airline, LIAT, David Evans, last week Friday, expressed “disappointment” at recent statements by some Caribbean prime ministers that their countries are being punished by the financially strapped airline because ...

UNITED NATIONS, New York (CMC) – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries joined the international community, on Tuesday, in condemning the United States embargo on Cuba. It was the first vote on the resolution since the two countries restored diplomatic ties. Israel ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) –Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley is celebrating his 66th birthday Saturday, dismissing speculation that he has been diagnosed with cancer. Rowley, who is on his first trip to Tobago since being elected head of government following ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC) – The Jamaica government says it will on Friday begin retroactive payments to civil servants for the 2015/17 contract period. Minister with responsibility for the Public Service in the Ministry of Finance and Planning, Horace Dalley, said ...