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KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – Embattled Junior Works Minister, Richard Azan, has resigned hours after the main opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) announced it would boycott parliament if he failed to do so by Tuesday next week. Prime Minister, Portia Simpson ...

By Ramy Srour US Correspondent WASHINGTON, D.C. (IPS) – In the aftermath of the worst terror attack in East Africa in three years, foreign policy scholars here are urging the U.S. government to rethink its counter-terror policy in the region. ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – Jamaican law enforcement authorities have charged a businesswoman and two members of her family with facilitating human trafficking. The Organized Crime Investigation Division (OCID) of the Jamaica Constabulary Force has also charged Hermalinda Parker with human ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. CMC – The United States Department of State says Jamaicans and Haitians are among nationals not eligible to apply for the 2015 Diversity Visa Program (DV-2015). In making the announcement on Wednesday, the department also pointed out that ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government has placed a two-year ban on hunting as it moves to protect and conserve wildlife resources, here. “A two year moratorium will be placed on hunting in Trinidad and ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – Environmentalist, Dr. Wayne Kublalsingh, who has been staging a daily protest outside the office of Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar over the construction of a multi-billion dollar highway in the south of Trinidad, has ...

By Muhyadin Ahmed Roble and Yusuf Ahmed Africa Correspondents MOGADISHU, Somalia (IPS) – After his first year as president of the world’s most dangerous and failed state, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is still grappling with limited financial resources, corruption, a lack ...

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent CMC – Former St. Vincent and the Grenadines ambassador to the United Nations, Camilo Gonsalves, was, on Monday, sworn in as the country’s new Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister, as Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves named ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – In an attempt to clamp down on illegal activities along the Corentyne River, which borders Guyana and Suriname, security officials have agreed to implement a joint patrol. In making the announcement on Thursday , Chief-of-Staff of the ...

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts CMC – Prime Minister, Dr. Denzil Douglas, says public servants will, on Wednesday, be paid a one-month “extra salary” in recognition of their contribution to nation building as St. Kitts-Nevis prepares to celebrate 30 years of political ...