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KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – National Security Minister Peter Bunting has asked the Attorney General to explore the possibility of not sending persons to jail for having small portions of marijuana in their possession, pending the amendment of relevant legislation. Bunting’s ...

NEW YORK, New York CMC – A 51-year-old attorney has been indicted for defrauding at least 30 victims, many of them immigrants from the Caribbean, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., has said. Vance said Owolabi Salis, is charged ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has approved a five-year strategy aimed at reducing the number of adolescent pregnancies in each country of the English and Dutch speaking Caribbean by at least 20 percent during the period 2014 ...

DELAWARE – CMC The cremated remains of several victims of the 1978 Jonestown Massacre in have been found in a former funeral home in the US state of Delaware . The remains were found among 38 small containers of ashes ...

PURCELLVILLE, Virginia — One hundred days after a son of Guyana made history in Virginia, he is busy with the business of running a Town like a business. May 6, 2014 saw Kwasi Fraser elected as the newest Mayor of ...

NEW YORK, New York, CMC – A Jamaican national faces federal narcotics smuggling charges after she was detained at the John F. Kennedy International Airport with cocaine with a street value of more than US$30,000 last month. The United States ...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – St. Lucia’s Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony says the island is being pressured into accepting same-sex marriages in a bid to further develop its tourism industry. Addressing the 16th biennial convention of the Union of Saint ...

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The Antigua and Barbuda government says it has put together an investigative team to probe some of the projects undertaken by the previous administration headed by Baldwin Spencer. Chief of Staff Lionel Hurst, speaking on ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) says it is making every effort to return customers to normal service after the government called on the sole electricity provider to explain the spate of power outages on the ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The police are investigating an incident that led to the shooting of three persons in the busy thoroughfare of Half Way Tree Square on Sunday afternoon. The police report that shortly after 2pm motorists and pedestrians ...