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KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – Jamaica police, on Tuesday, promised to continue cooperating with the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) after it alleged that senior police officers are being investigated for their alleged roles in extra-judicial killings. INDECOM Commissioner, Terrence Williams, ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – In June 2012, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) launched a report on the links between diabetes and climate change. The report noted that the two are urgent challenges in the 21st century that were ...

By Patricia Grogg and Ivet González Cuba Correspondents HAVANA, Cuba (IPS) – A new law opening Cuba up to foreign investment and a shift in the country’s relations with the European Union are aimed at seeking outside support to overcome ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – Guyana says it expects to ship an estimated 200,000 tons of rice to Venezuela at prices similar to last year, according to Agriculture Minister Dr. Leslie Ramsammy. He said that the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country would ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – Police are investigating the apparent murder-suicide incident in which a controversial pastor shot and killed his brother, ran over his nephew with his vehicle, set fire to his house, and then shot himself to ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – A Jet Blue plane was forced to make an emergency landing at the Norman Manley International Airport on Monday evening, shortly after take-off. Senior director of Commercial Development and Planning at the Airports Authority of Jamaica ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – Chandresh Sharma, on Monday night, promised to remain silent on the issues that led to his resignation from the cabinet of Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar, promising nonetheless to “continue privately to clear my ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – The former Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, Debra Backer, has died a few weeks after she resigned because of illness. A statement from the main opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) last Friday, confirmed that ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – Former junior energy minister, Kern Spencer, was freed on Monday, after a magistrate’s court upheld a no-case submission on charges of corruption and money laundering in the so called “Cuban light bulb” distribution program. Spencer’s personal ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – Trinidad and Tobago police are awaiting a forensic report, to determine whether or not the burnt remains of a human being found in a forested area in Princess Town, south of here, are that ...