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Photo above: In an exercise, a Kuwaiti F18 Hornet fighter aircraft stages an attack on Royal Navy Type 23 frigate HMS St Albans. Currently, Israel and all six GCC countries are armed with state-of-the art fighter planes, mostly from the ...

Photo above: Presidents Barack Obama and Uhuru Kenyatta wave to delegates at the Opening Plenary at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, in Nairobi, Kenya on July 25, 2015. Photo credit: U.S. Embassy Nairobi. By Aruna Dutt IPS Correspondent UNITED NATIONS, New ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – Jamaica says it is taking steps to protect is trademark, geographical indications and patents. “In this regard, we have been doing much to develop this regime. Our efforts include amendments to the Trademarks Act to protect ...

BOSTON, Massachusetts, CMC – After an outcry from neighbors, elected officials and the Boston Police Department officials here say this year’s Caribbean J’ouvert will be shortened. The early morning celebration scheduled for August 29 will be cut nearly in half ...

UNITED NATIONS, New York, CMC – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said, on Tuesday, that a United Nations mission will visit his country and Guyana in a bid to encourage dialogue and deal with the centuries old border dispute between the ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – A recent World Bank study has found that Jamaica could record growth averaging five per cent per annum, if the country’s trade and investment facilitation process is significantly improved. As a result, Minister without Portfolio in ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – A magistrate court has adjourned to August 28, hearing of an extradition request by the United States for former national security minister, Austin “Jack” Warner, who is wanted on a number of charges relating ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Fire and forestry authorities have launched a public awareness programme after hundreds of acres of forest cover have been lost so far this year due to indiscriminate fires started by citizens. “In these dry times, you ...

Photo above: St. Kitts and Nevis has launched a 1-megawatt solar farm at the country’s Robert L Bradshaw International Airport. A second solar project is also nearing completion. Photo credit: Desmond Brown/IPS. By Desmond Brown IPS Caribbean Correspondent FORT-DE-FRANCE, Martinique ...

Photo above: The Security Council unanimously adopts resolution 2231 (2015), following the historic agreement in Vienna last week between the E3+3 (France, Germany and the United Kingdom, as well as the European Union; plus China, Russia and the United States) ...