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Government stands by athletes
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica government says while it “stands by all our athletes” it adheres to the rules governing anti-doping in sports.
Talk show host tipped to be new political leader of main opposition party
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Radio talk show host, Lennox Linton, is being tipped to lead the main opposition United Workers Party (UWP) as it prepares for the next
Bad weather blamed for mishap involving 12-seater plane
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – All 12 people on board an Air Services Limited (ASL) plane survived an early morning “crash” after the aircraft landed off the Matthews Ridge airstrip in Region One on M
Eighteen to represent country at Carifesta
ST JOHN’S, Antigua – The government will be sending an 18-member contingent to the 2013 Caribbean Festival of Arts (Carifesta) to be held in Suriname next month.
CPA conference to focus on threats to Caribbean democracy
ST JOHN’S, Antigua – A meeting of parliamentarians from around the region in Antigua & Barbuda later this month will see real examples of threats to Caribbean democracy ventilated.
Mission completed
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Barbados will soon be looking for a new ambassador to China.
New UN envoy in Haiti from Trinidad takes her post
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The United Nations' new envoy to Haiti has begun her post as the head of mission for the peacekeeping force in the Caribbean nation.
Partnership in parlous state
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Any forecast the Chaguanas West by-election campaign outcome will show both the People’s Partnership and the spin-off Independent Liberal Party (ILP) to have been brough
PM wants former national security minister investigated
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar Monday night called for an investigation into her former national security minister Austin “Jack” Warner after a newspaper rep
Government places southern Belize under quarantine
BELMOPAN, CMC - The Belize government has placed a significant section of the country under an agriculture quarantine following the detection of the Mediterranean Fruit Fly.
CCCCC official defends region’s need for financial assistance to deal with climate change
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – The Deputy Director of the Belize-based Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC), Dr.
Major private-sector bodies form CARICOM working group
KINGSTON, Jamaica - On the heels of recent public commentary regarding Jamaica's trade agreements with CARICOM comes news that four of the country's major organisations have formed a broad-based
Clash over CARICOM - Let’s fix it!
KINGSTON, Jamaica - Forty years is not a long time in the life of an organisation.
Mandela could soon be discharged, Mbeki says
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nelson Mandela may be discharged from hospital soon to recuperate at home, said a former president of South Africa.
Trayvon Martin’s Legacy
It may not be possible to consider the case of George Zimmerman, who was acquitted Saturday of all charges in the killing of Trayvon Martin, as anything but a sad commentary on the state of race
Is the USA on the brink again?
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua - The decision of the jury in the George Zimmerman case has inflamed race relations in the United States of America once again.
Grenadian-born legislator slams not guilty verdict in death of black teenager
NEW YORK, CMC - A Grenadian-born American legislator has joined a chorus of condemnation of a not guilty verdict by a Florida jury in the murder of an unarmed black teenager by a white neighbourh
Editor in Chief says she will not betray principle to promote press freedom
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The editor in chief at the Trinidad Guardian, Judy Raymond, Monday defended her decision to remain at the newspaper amidst conflicting reports that the impasse invo