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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government has piloted legislation aimed at denying bail for up to 120 days to anyone charged with possession of an unlicensed firearm or has a serious charge pending. The amendment ...

Photo above is of Michael Jordan. Photo courtesy of Joshua Massel. Michael Jordan, considered the best basketball player of all time, has just joined the billionaires’ club. Jordan is one of the 290 newly-minted billionaires on Forbes’ annual list of ...

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC – Former St. Kitts-Nevis prime minister Dr. Denzil Douglas, Tuesday, described as “bogus,” media reports that the United States government had revoked his visa to enter the North American country. “The document, a graphic of a ...

By Ernie Seon CMC St. Lucia Correspondent CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Police Commissioner, Vernon Francois, on Monday, said, his “conscience is clear” as human rights lawyers reacted to a report of an investigation conducted by Jamaican police into alleged ...

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – President of the Human Rights Association (HRA), Nicole Sylvester, is defending the decision to sue three media houses, saying the legal action should not be regarded as an anti human rights stance. “It is absolutely ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica Association of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JACAP), has sued several media houses here for alleged breaches of copyright laws. The association, which represents over two million creators of music worldwide, including 3,400 Jamaicans, took ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica says it wants a significant share of the fast growing global nutraceutical industry, estimated at US$270 billion. “I am a firm supporter of the nutraceutrical industry in Jamaica. My firm belief in, and unshakable support ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has pledged to implement gender transformative agendas in member countries, as women and children continue to face serious challenges in the region. In his message to mark International Women’s Day, CDB ...

NEW YORK, New York CMC – A United States court, on Tuesday, sentenced Dino Bouterse to more than 16 years in jail, after he plead guilty last August to charges that he tried to offer a home base in the ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – A High Court judge has sentenced the 42-year-old mother of a secondary school student and her lover to more than 200 years in jail after they were found guilty of killing the child in 2010. The ...