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GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – Opposition Leader, Bharat Jagdeo, led a walk out of legislators from the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) after he concluded his contribution to the GUY$221 billion (One Guyana dollar =US$0.008 cents) budget, late on Friday night. But ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – Former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Trade, Tourism, Industry and Commerce, Dr. Nigel C. Gravesande, has been appointed Registrar at the University of Guyana. Gravesande, who took up office on Monday, succeeds Vincent Alexander. Up ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – Air traffic controllers who took protest action on Friday to press of an improved wage package, returned to work late Saturday, averting the closure of the Norman Manley International Airport. The airport was scheduled to close ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC — Although a two-year agreement has been signed between the government and the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU) that covers salaries and other benefits for public sector workers, there has been a setback in an increase ...

OREGON, US CMC — The first-ever discovery of a salamander, in amber, has shed light on the evolution of the Caribbean, according to scientists at Oregon State University (OSU). They said, that fossil records have revealed something not known before ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados CMC – Tropical storm, Danny, has become a tropical depression as it moves through the Eastern Caribbean, but residents were keeping their eyes on a weather system that was 1,250 miles east of the Lesser Antilles. The Miami-based ...

Photo above: Studies show that indigenous fish species in Uganda – here being caught on Lake Victoria – have shrunk in size due to an increase in water temperature as a result of climate change. Photo credit: Wambi Michael/IPS. By ...

HAVANA, Cuba, CMC – A new Cuban vaccine for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B is currently undergoing clinical trials in Cuba and eight Asian countries, with the cooperation of the French company Abivax. Researchers say the new product – HeberNasvac ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana government says it will reduce the number of work permits granted to foreigners as it sought to encourage that nationals be given priority for those jobs. “Contrary to our friends (opposition parliamentarians), we are ...

  Photo above is of Montserratian, Rose Willock. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – The Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU) Monday night inducted the late Guyanese broadcaster, Terry Holder, and Montserratian, Rose Willock, into its Hall of Fame. Holder, who died in January last ...