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KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – The people who hacked into the website of the Jamaica Information Service (JIS) and five others, left messages the country needs to treat with seriously, the junior minister in the Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and ...

Photo above: President David Granger and Commonwealth Secretary General, Kamalesh Sharma, along with Minister of Social Cohesion, Amna Ally, shortly before the convening of the meeting. Photo credit: GINA. GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC — The 53-member states of the Commonwealth have ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – More than a week after the European Union named 13 Caribbean countries among a list of 30 nations deemed as tax havens, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping has taken strong objection to the Europe’s position. CARICOM ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados CMC – A three-day Caribbean Basin Security Imitative (CBSI) conference began here Monday with Barbados urging regional countries to pay closer attention to the crime and security agenda agreed to by the regional leaders in 2013. Attorney General, ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica police are searching for several persons, many of whom on charges of murder, who staged a jail break over the past few hours. The authorities have since released the photos of seven men who escaped from ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – More than 170 years after an ordinance was issued by the then British government, President David Granger says Bartica will attain the status of township on April 23, next year. “I made a promise when I ...

WASHINGTON, DC, CMC – Jamaican attorney Margarette May Maculay has been elected as a Commissioner of the Inter American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) for a four-year term. Macaulay serves as Mediator in the Supreme Court of Jamaica and an ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica says effective Monday, all systems are in place to facilitate number portability by individuals and businesses. Science, Technology, Energy and Mining Minister Phillip Paulwell in this regard, both fixed-line and mobile telephone customers in Jamaica ...

Photo above is of Guyana President, David Granger (left) and Ambassador Liu Huanxing, Special Envoy, Caribbean Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, China, taking a photo opportunity before the meeting at the Ministry of the Presidency. Photo credit: GINA. GEORGETOWN, Guyana, ...

Photo above is of Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny, Assistant Director-General, Health Systems and Innovation, at the WHO. Photo courtesy of the WHO. NEW YORK, New York CMC – A new report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the World Bank ...