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KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica has signed an agreement allowing the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country to export pepper and dasheen to oil rich Trinidad and Tobago. Junior Agriculture Minister, Luther Buchanan, said the agreement was reached at the CARICOM level ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The former leader of government business in Parliament and cricket administrator, Dr. Alloy Lequay, has died. He was 90 years old. Lequay, who entered Parliament in 1966 as the parliamentary representative for South Naparima, ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica government says more than 500 people have been arrested and billions of dollars in assets seized under the country’s anti-lottery scamming law, since it was passed in 2013. National Security Minister, Peter Bunting, told ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana government says it “is extremely perplexed” by the decision of the Venezuela government to use the media here to publicise its opposition to the allegations by Georgetown that Caracas is seeking to stymie the ...

STANFORD, California, CMC – A newly developed genetic technique has enabled researchers to sequence DNA from the teeth of 300-year-old skeletons, helping to pinpoint where in Africa three slaves had likely lived before being captured and transported to the Caribbean. ...

HAVANA, Cuba, CMC – For the first time in 15 years, Cuba and the United States have re-established direct telephone links. The state telecommunications company, Etecsa, says initially the link will only be for phone calls. This is the first ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica government is defending its decision to purchase a hedge in the market against the risk of a sharp increase in the price of oil. Finance and Planning Minister, Dr. Peter Phillips, said the imposition ...

Photo above courtesy of www.cdc.gov. PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad-based Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), Monday, warned that the region is in the midst of a childhood obesity epidemic, despite the dramatic improvement in the health status ...

NEW YORK, United States, CMC – A 14-year-old girl allegedly involved in the vicious attack on another teenage girl at a McDonald’s restaurant in Brooklyn has been apprehended in Atlanta, Georgia, just moments away from flying off to Jamaica. The ...

LIMA, Peru, CMC – A new report by the World Bank is calling on Caribbean countries to re-think their policies, in order to break the cycle of chronic poverty in the region. The report entitled “Left Behind, Chronic Poverty in ...