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CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Former senior government minister, Lenard “Spider” Montoute, says he has resigned from the Senate, but denied reports he was quitting active politics. “Tell them they will be tired of seeing my face…I was born in ...

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Somebody in Dominica is holding a lottery ticket for EC$270,000 (One EC dollar =US$0.37 cents) and the Dominica National Lottery (DNL) is urging the person to cash in the ticket. “We at the Dominica National Lottery ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica government says it will continue to provide “second chance” programs for students who leave the school system without marketable competencies. Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, speaking at a teaching strategy symposium on Saturday, said ...

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe has resigned less than a week after President Michel Martelly had received a report from an 11-member presidential commission established to help deal with Haiti’s worsening political crisis. The Commission ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., CMC – A new joint report by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says the number of babies born with HIV in Latin America and the Caribbean declined by 78 percent ...

By Peter Richards CMC Caribbean Correspondent  ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, won a third consecutive term in office on Monday, as his ruling Dominica Labour Party (DLP) won its fourth consecutive five-year term in power, withstanding a ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana and Fiji have established diplomatic relations with Georgetown, saying that the decision to establish relations was taken after the Asian country held democratic elections in September. A government statement said that “the decision is also ...

HAVANA, Cuba, CMC – The Fifth Caribbean Community (CARICOM)-Cuba summit opened here on Monday, with regional countries calling on the United States to and the decades old trade embargo against Havana. CARICOM Chairman, Gaston Browne, told the summit now was ...

KINGSON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica has established a special task force that will examine the current ban on the importation of damaged vehicles, as the island seeks to position itself as a major player in that industry. Industry, Investment, and ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government Monday, urged illegal migrants to seek to regularize their status after the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country deported a number of African nationals over the last weekend. National Security Minister, ...