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Photo above is of St. Vincent’s Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves. Photo credit: Desmond Brown/IPS. KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – A muscle injury has “seriously affected” the mobility of Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, and could see him travelling to Cuba ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Sugar workers are due to return to their jobs Tuesday, following strike action that affected the Skeldon Estate, Agriculture Minister Dr. Leslie Ramsammy has said. He said the workers had walked off their jobs last Friday, ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government has confirmed that it intends to sell the financially troubled Colonial Life Insurance Co Ltd (CLICO), whose collapse in 2009 sent ripples throughout the Caribbean. Finance Minister Larry Howai, ...

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – The Dominica government says it is pleased with the confidence being expressed by investors in the island, following the success it has had on the Regional Government Securities Market (RGSM). The RGSM is used for the ...

Photo above: In this St. Vincent community, many people build their houses on the banks of a river flowing through the area, leaving them vulnerable to storms and flooding. Photo credit: Desmond Brown/IPS. By Desmond Brown IPS Caribbean Correspondent KINGSTOWN, ...

Above photo is of an Ebola victim being carried by health workers for burial on May 13, 2014. Photo credit: ©EC/ECHO/Jean-Louis Mosser. By Antonio Vigilante Guest Writer MONROVIA, Liberia (IPS) – As the Ebola crisis continues to take a toll on ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Veteran journalist Clare Forrester has died after a long battle with cancer. She was 69. Forrester passed away on Monday night at her brother’s home in Florida after she was taken to a hospice on the ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Former tourism minister, Daryl Vaz, is due to go on trial early next year on corruption related charges. Vaz, who will now appear in court on February 16, had been charged in April 2012, following allegations ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana government says it will provide a free bus service to commuters on the East and West Banks of Demerara after bus drivers announced plans for a strike in support of an increase in bus ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica has recorded a significant decline in murders for the first nine months of the year as compared with the same period last year, according to official figures released here. The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) Periodic ...