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GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – Argentina has bestowed the Grand Cross of the Order of the General Liberator of San Martin on Guyana’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, who ended a two-day visit to the country over the last weekend. A ...

ROSEAU, Dominica CMC – Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, became a father for the second time, last Wednesday, after his wife, Melissa, gave birth to a boy, according to an official statement issued here. It said, that Dmitry Roosevelt Skerrit weighed ...

ROSEAU, Dominica CMC – Vernon Lorden Shaw, 83, who served as Dominica’s fifth head of state, died Monday at the Princess Margaret Hospital. A brief statement on the state-owned DBS radio said that Shaw, a career public servant who also ...

ROSEAU, Dominica CMC – Dominica says it is pursuing efforts to get the European Union to remove the visa requirements for nationals travelling to Europe, saying that it was important to stimulate trade under the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) signed ...

LONDON, England CMC – Montserrat has signed an Inter-Governmental Agreement to improve international tax compliance as part of several measures that Britain’s Overseas Territories have agreed to adopt in June. Premier Rueben Meade and Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Minister ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – A magistrate has sentenced a 34-year-old man to 14 days in jail for using obscene language towards Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar at a political meeting earlier this year. Magistrate Adia Mohammed, sitting in ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – The Jamaica government is warning nationals against the use of Panadol made in China, saying the drug has not been approved for sale here. “The Ministry of Health is aware that ‘Panadol Extra Strength Tablets’, in ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – Police ended the four-day search for six-year-old Keyana Cumberbatch, after her body was found stuffed in a barrel in a bedroom at her home, late last week Thursday. Residents became angry and called for ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. CMC – The United States says it is “actively” assisting the Cuban diplomatic mission here in finding a new bank willing to handle its accounts so it can resume issuing passports and visas to visitors to the Spanish-speaking ...

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua CMC – The regional airline, LIAT, which came under heavy public criticism over its summer schedule, Monday, sought to re-assure the travelling public that it would do everything possible to ensure that their journeys are not interrupted ...