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GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – A Caribbean Airlines (CAL) aircraft crashed at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) in 2011 because of a number of factors, including a lack of effective communication in the cockpit, according to an official report released ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government says it wants the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Roger Gaspard, to seriously consider prosecuting persons who claim to have remedies for various viruses such as the Ebola virus ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana says it has exported 400,000 tonnes of rice, the most in the country’s history. “It’s the very first time in our history, so as of Tuesday the amount of rice exported that left Guyana already ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana says it will receive US$35 million from Norway under the forests and climate change partnership between the two countries. President Donald Ramotar, in a nationwide radio and television broadcast, said Norway will pay Guyana the ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has described the late president of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC), Francis “Paco” Kennedy as a “giant”, who was always driven by the desire to improve the cause of business ...

WASHINGTON, DC, CMC – The Organization of American States (OAS) says cyber vulnerabilities continue to affect a “wide range of targets” in the Caribbean. OAS Assistant Secretary General, Albert Ramdin, said while member-states are “ever-more familiar with cyber security threats, ...

Photo above is of the winners of this year’s AgriHack Talent competition, at the Caribbean Week of Agriculture 2014. The winners designed apps to be used by farmers. Photo courtesy of CTA. By Jewel Fraser IPS Caribbean Correspondent PARAMARIBO, Suriname ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – Veteran Jamaican reggae singer, John Holt, has died. He was 69. His manager, Copeland Forbes, said, the singer, whose hits included Stick by Me, Only a Smile, Tonight, Ali Baba and I See Your Face, died ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The leader of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, is calling on Caribbean countries to demand reparation for slavery from the Roman Catholic Church, in addition to Europe. Farrakhan, who was addressing the 19thanniversary of the ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – Parliament has given the green light to the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, 2014, ensuring that businesses no longer face closure when facing bankruptcy. The Senate has approved the legislation with 43 additional amendments, following passage in ...