PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC — More than 100 candidates have been nominated to contest the September 7 general elections that opinion polls say is a straight fight between the ruling United National Congress (UNC) led People’s Partnership government and ...
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Amerindian Action Movement of Guyana (TAAMOG), has sued the government of Guyana following the dismissal of just under 2,000 community support officers who were all of Amerindian descent. TAAMOG President, Peter Persaud, filed a GUY$10M ...
Read More »Jamaica Health Minister Calls For Calm Following Protest On Hospital Compound
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Health Minister Dr. Fenton Ferguson has appealed for calm at the Savanna-La-Mar Hospital in the western parish of Westmoreland after protestors set fire to an ambulance and damaged a building on the hospital compound on Saturday. ...
Read More »Foreigners Injured In Shooting Incident In Jamaica
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC — Two visitors are battling for life in hospital following a shooting incident in the western parish of Hanover early Friday. The female visitors were among four persons shot by gunmen. The police report that one of ...
Read More »Marcus Garvey’s Home To Be Transformed Into A Heritage Site
Photo above credit: the Jamaica Gleaner. KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The house in which Jamaica’s first National Hero, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, grew up, will be refurbished and transformed into a heritage site. Culture Minister, Lisa Hanna, in a message to commemorate ...
Read More »Guyana Opposition Returns To Parliament; Refuses To Name Candidate For Deputy Speaker Position
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The main opposition People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) returned to the Parliament for the first time since the May 11 regional and general election, and immediately declined to nominate a person for the post of Deputy ...
Read More »Jamaica Government Signs Wage Agreement With Public Sector Workers
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica government has signed a two year agreement with the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU) that covers salaries and other benefits for the period April 2015 to March 2017 for public workers. However, the ...
Read More »US Re-opens Embassy In Cuba; CARICOM Welcomes Improved Relations
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping has welcomed the improved relations between the United States and Cuba and urged Washington to remove the “out-dated and unjust trade and economic embargo” against the Caribbean country. In a statement ...
Read More »Man Accused Of Extorting Money From Oliver Samuels
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – A 29-year-old man is due to re-appear in court on September 7 on charges of extorting money from popular actor Oliver Samuels and stealing two high-end phones from his house. Junior Webster Sommerville appeared in the ...
Read More »Obama Takes Lead On Climate Change Ahead Of U.N. Talks In Paris
Photo above: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon gives President Barack Obama a banner after their bilateral meeting in the Oval Office, August 4, 2015. The message reads, “The highest virtue is like water.” Photo credit: Official White House photo by Pete Souza. ...
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