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KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – Two weeks after the Constitutional Court ruled that Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and other leading members of the ruling People’s National Party (PNP) should answer questions from Dutch investigators under oath in open court, the ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – The Ministry of Health has received information from the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) laboratory of six confirmed local cases of the H1N1 or Swine Flu. “In light of these new confirmations, locally, along ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – Gender, Youth and Child Development Minister, Clifton De Coteau, is undergoing medical tests after being hospitalized last week, Housing Minister, Dr. Roodal Moonilal, has confirmed. He said his Cabinet colleague had been taken to ...

By Nelson A. King US Correspondent  NEW YORK, New York CMC – Chairman of the shareholder governments of the regional airline, LIAT, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves has acknowledged that the airline has been a terrible disappointment to the Caribbean travelling public ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has promised to assist the government with technical and financial support in an effort to reform Guyana’s energy sector. During a meeting in New York last Friday, IDB President, Luis Alberto ...

By Ahmed Osman Somalia Correspondent MOGADISHU, Somalia (IPS) – Maryan Yusuf, 39, is weak and barely able to speak because of her excruciating pain. A few hours earlier she delivered a baby at Somalia’s Afgooye Hospital, where essential drugs are ...

ROSEAU, Dominica CMC – President-elect Charles Savarin has defended his election even as Opposition Leader Hector John said he would snub the head of state and boycott all functions officiated by him. Savarin, 70, who is expected to be sworn ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – The Mayor of the Portmore Municipal Council, located in the central parish of St. Catherine, is dead. George Lee, 74, created history when in 2003 when he became the first directly elected Mayor in Jamaica. But ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – Guyana is seeking to export gold to markets in India and China as the country recorded an estimated 353,000 ounces of the commodity so far this year. Natural Resources and Environment Minister, Robert Persaud, said that ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados CMC – Barbados has confirmed four cases of Influenza A H1N1 including one death. A statement from the Ministry of Health said that results from the 10 samples sent to the Trinidad-based Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) last ...