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GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana has reiterated the need for a peaceful settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a prerequisite for lasting peace on the Middle East. “The Palestinian people deserve the same rights as people everywhere: to live in ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. CMC – A major think tank here says that China’s “check book diplomacy” is affecting relations not solely between the Caribbean and Beijing, but also between the region and Taiwan. The Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) said in ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar and Opposition Leader Dr. Keith Rowley have agreed on a number of initiatives to stem the rising crime situation in Trinidad and Tobago, with the government insisting that “crime ...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada CMC – The Grenada government will later this week disclose how it plans to honour the memory of Mrs. Alimenta Bishop, the mother of former prime minister, Maurice Bishop. Mrs. Bishop, 97, died last Saturday without ever ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – The main opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has established a three-member, internal, electoral commission to prepare for a possible election after former finance minister, Audley Shaw, announced his intention to challenge former prime minister, Andrew Holness, ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – Guyana has recorded more than GUY$175 billion (One Guyana dollar = US$0.005 cents) in revenue from mineral production last year, Natural Resources and the Environment Minister Robert Persaud has said. He said the gold, bauxite, sand ...

MIAMI, U.S. CMC – The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) says a Jamaican man has been arrested and charged with participating in a telemarketing conspiracy and committing 37 counts of wire fraud. ICE said that the charges ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – Former president Bharrat Jagdeo has criticized critics of the multi-billion dollar Amaila Falls Hydro Power (AFHP) project saying the country may well lose out on a plan to improve energy supply here because of “partisanship and ...

By Jewel Fraser Caribbean Correspondent PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (IPS) – The Caribbean is in danger of becoming “a region of serial defaulters” with respect to international debt obligations, according to one expert, and this may partly be due to ...

PARAMARIBO, Suriname CMC – With a dazzling display of colors and laser projections of the participating country’s flags on the Presidential Palace as backdrop, Suriname staged a spectacular opening of the eleventh Caribbean Festival of Arts and Culture (Carifesta XI) ...