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14-y-o girl’s body found with chop wounds near home

ST THOMAS, Jamaica – The body of a 14-year-old girl was found this morning with several chop wounds in the Newlands Housing Scheme of St Thomas. Reports are that at about 4:30 am relatives found the child's body a few metres from her…

Dominica hoping other countries join CCJ

ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC) – Dominica is hoping that its decision to join the Trinidad and Tobago-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Friday will lead to other Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries following suit. Attorney General Levi…

Four foreigners on human trafficking charges in St Lucia

CASTRIES, St Lucia (CMC) – Four men, including three from India will re-appear in court on March 11 on charges of human trafficking in St Lucia. Police said that the four men, including a national from Bangladesh, were arrested and charged…

UPDATE: Foreigners killed in Trelawny crash

TRELAWNY, Jamaica — The four men, three Dominica Republic nationals and a Spanish, who lost their lives in a motor vehicle collision early this morning along the Braco main road in Trelawny, were employees of a St Ann hotel. The identities…

No consensus on Caribbean candidate for top Commonwealth post

NASSAU, Bahamas (CMC) – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders have failed to agree on a single candidate for the post of Secretary General of the Commonwealth, Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister Gaston Browne has said. The leaders, who…

Farmer to be tried for stabbing peacemaker

Kingston, Jamaica -- A St Andrew farmer is to be tried in the Gordon Town Resident Magistrate's Court for allegedly stabbing a man who was acting as a peacemaker in a dispute. The date was set on Thursday when accused Aston Morrison, 47,…

More infighting within St Lucia opposition party

Castries, St Lucia -- The latest episodes in ongoing infighting within the opposition United Workers Party (UWP) in Saint Lucia have been revealed in a press release from the UWP’s Castries North Constituency Branch and a letter from a UWP…

Guyana parliament to be dissolved on February 28

Georgetown, Guyana (GINA) -- President Donald Ramotar announced on Tuesday that he has signed the proclamation to dissolve parliament in Guyana on February 28, and the ten regional democratic councils. This announcement follows Ramotar’s…

Portmore residents did not shun EOJ, says Jackson

St Catherine, Jamaica -- Member of Parliament for South St Catherine, Fitz Jackson, has said that Portmore residents have not shunned the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) petition seeking 6,480 signatures to go ahead with the redrawing of…

Barbados tourism returns to growth path

Bridgetown, Barbados -- Barbados’s tourism sector has begun to show signs of growth. In 2014, long stay visitor arrivals increased for the first time in two years by 2.2 percent to 519,638 visitors, compared to the previous year. Chairman…

OECS Health Ministers discuss status of Health Sector

Castries, St Lucia -- The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Commission’s special meeting of key decision makers in the health sector met with ministers for health on Tuesday morning on the status of member states regarding…

Venezuelans protest Maduro’s visit to Trinidad and Tobago

Port of Spain, Trinidad -- Venezuelans residing in Trinidad protested in Port of Spain on Tuesday, calling for the resignation of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro who arrived in Trinidad on Tuesday morning on a working visit.…