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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS), Monday, announced an investigation into the nationwide roadblocks mounted by police officers that virtually crippled the country, affecting schools, businesses and the judiciary. Deputy Police Commissioner Ann ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The European union will provide Euro$346 million (One Euro=US$1.29 cents) on programs focusing on regional economic integration, climate change disaster management and sustainable energy in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Dominican Republic over the next ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica government says it is in the process of creating a framework for the possible resumption of the importation of damaged motor vehicles into the country. “We have taken into consideration what re-opening this industry ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Senior Counsel Reginald Armour was elected president of the Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago, despite criticisms of his candidacy in the run-up to the election from Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar. “I respect the ...

NEW YORK, United States, CMC – An increasing number of investors are heading to the Caribbean, as regional countries look for new sources of energy. The energy landscape in the United States has transformed radically in the last few years, ...

LONDON, England, CMC – Britain has warned travelers to the Caribbean about contracting the Chikungunya virus, based on the dramatic increase in the number of people affected by the disease in the last year. Last Friday, Public Health England (PHE) ...

WASHINGTON, DC, CMC – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) says it has launched an initiative to help prevent maternal deaths from haemorrhage in the Caribbean. PAHO said one in five maternal deaths in Latin America and the Caribbean results ...

Photo above: Vendors at the fish market in Belize. Photo courtesy of the Fisheries Department Belize City, Belize. By Zadie Neufville IPS Correspondent KINGSTON, Jamaica (IPS) – Caribbean nations have begun work on a plan to ‘climate smart’ the region’s fisheries ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has come out in full support of Guyana, after Venezuela declared that the “Arbitral award of 1899, which definitively settled the boundary between the two countries, is null and void.” CARICOM ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica-based Bio-Tech R&D Institute says it has been granted a new patent by the United States, as it continues its cancer research. It said the new patent — Number 8907117 — is titled “Anti-tumour and ...