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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) – Sugar workers, on Monday, went on strike, accusing management of refusing to hold negotiations for increased wages until the findings of a Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the ailing Guyana Sugar Corporation (GUYSUCO) are released. President ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, October 28, (CMC) – Police said, the severed head of a man was found in a concrete dumpster in a crime “hot spot”, east of the capital on Wednesday. They said, that the gruesome discovery was ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Former Jamaica prime minister P.J. Patterson has criticized British Prime Minister David Cameron of seeking to “trivialise and diminish the significance of 300 years of British enslavement of Africans”. In an open letter to the British ...

JOHN’S, Antigua, Oct. 11, CMC – Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister Gaston Browne says last week’s arrest of former United Nations Ambassador Dr. John Ashe, on corruption charges has cast a “pall of gloom” over the twin-island state and neighbouring ...

CARACAS, Venezuela, CMC – Venezuela has accused Guyana of “falsely accusing” Caracas of carrying out military operations in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country. Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez said that Guyana president David Granger “lied” about the alleged presence of a ...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia CMC – St. Lucia will launch its Citizenship by Investment Programme (CIP) in January next year, Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony has said. In an address to the Global Citizen Forum in Monaco, last Thursday, Anthony, while ...

ST.JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Former Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer Friday, said he had received funds from former Antigua and Barbuda Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Dr. John Ashe, who is now facing criminal charges in the United States. In a ...

By Thalif Deen IPS Correspondent UNITED NATIONS, New York (IPS) — After initial hesitation, the United Nations has decided to probe allegations of bribery and corruption extending to the office of a past President of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – The state-owned Caribbean Airlines (CAL) says it will discontinue its services to London’s Gatwick Airport, effective January 10, next year. “This has not been an easy decision, since the airline’s customers have loyally supported ...

LONDON, England CMC – Author, Marlon James, the first Jamaica-born author to be shortlisted for the prize, has won the 50,000 pound (one British pound =US$1.51 cents) Man Booker Prize, on Tuesday, for his novel inspired by the attempted assassination ...