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By Busani Bafana Africa Correspondent MAPUTO, Mozambique (IPS) – Africa currently imports almost 40 billion dollars worth of food a year, but it should implement measures to attract private sector investment in agriculture in order to reduce its food import ...

By Peter Richards Caribbean Correspondent PORT OF Spain, Trinidad CMC – Speaker of the Trinidad and Tobago parliament, Wade Mark, on Monday, declared the St. Joseph parliamentary seat of former justice minister, Herbert Volney, vacant in a move paving the ...

MIAMI, Florida CMC – Cuba has proposed that a United States government delegation should visit Havana this month for a second round of talks on resuming direct postal services. Mail service between the United States and Cuba was cancelled in ...

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti CMC – Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe, on Monday, hailed a new initiative to establish direct air links between the French Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country and Venezuela. He said it would strengthen ties between the two countries ...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada CMC – The Grenada government says it has invited a delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to assess the current economic situation in the country. Grenada is discussing a formal arrangement with the Washington-based financial institution ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – Jamaica says it has been given an assurance by Venezuela that there would be no changes to the existing PetroCaribe agreement during the island’s four year agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Energy Minister, Phillip ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – Police, Monday, said the severed head of a man had been found in the capital, and believes he may have been a victim of gang warfare in Trinidad and Tobago. Police said the body ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – Nine children reported missing, including three girls, have been killed during the period January to August this year even as the Jamaica government says more than 85 percent of children reported missing during that period have ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – Guyana and Brazil will hold another round of talks later this month as both countries seek to expedite the process of deepening bilateral cooperation. No date has yet been set for the Guyana-Brazil Joint Commission on ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – The Jamaica government says it will continue to monitor the prisons, here, after confirming seven cases of tuberculosis among people in police custody during the January and August period this year. The Ministry of Health (MOH) ...