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ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell says his administration’s freeze on hiring within the public service will not apply to the Royal Grenada Police Force (RGPF). Mitchell, who is also Minister of National Security, spoke during ...

PORT OF SPAIN, T&T CMC – Nearly seven years after a prominent businesswoman was kidnapped and murdered, a court has heard that her killers had used an electric saw to dismember her body, possibly even while she was still alive. ...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada CMC – Grenada police, on Tuesday, urged the public to be on the lookout for counterfeit EC$100 (One EC dollar = US$0.37 cents) notes now in circulation on the island. The police, in a brief statement, said ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – Patrice Wymore Flynn, the widow of Hollywood legend, Errol Flynn, is dead. Wymore Flynn, 87, died from natural causes at her home in the eastern parish of Portland, last Saturday afternoon. She had starred in a ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – The Jamaica government will spend an estimated J$2.3 billion (One Jamaica dollar = US$0.01 cents) over the next two years to improve aviation safety and security, Director General of the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority (JCAA), Leroy ...

WASHINGTON, DC CMC – The Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) says one in five people infected with tuberculosis in the Americas, including the Caribbean, remains unaware of the disease. PAHO said this is due to “failure to access health services or ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries are being urged to establish regional standards for “clear, consistent, food labeling” while also banning, or at least limiting, the marketing of energy dense, high salt, foods and beverages to ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – A 12-year-old primary school student will be sentenced on April 11, after he pleaded guilty last Friday, to slapping and choking a teacher. The incident comes as education authorities here deal with a wave ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – The Guyana government, on Monday, presented a GUY$220 billion (One Guyana dollar = US$0.004 cents) tax free budget to the National Assembly. Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh said the government is also predicting economic growth of ...

Analysis by Nathalie Baptiste  WASHINGTON, DC (IPS) – On October 16, 1993, Alerte Belance was abducted from her home and taken to Titanyen, a small seaside village used by Haiti’s rulers as a mass grave for political opponents. There she received ...