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Port of Spain, Trinidad -- Trinidad and Tobago now has about 1,000 suspected cases of chikungunya. This was revealed yesterday by Chief Medical Officer at the Minis¬try of Health Dr Colin Furlonge, who said key stakeholders in the fight…

Kingston, Jamaica -- The People’s National Party (PNP) has expressed solidarity with Canada following Wednesday morning’s shooting attack at their Parliament in Ottawa, Ontario. “This display of ‘proximity terrorism’ and attack on the…

Kingstown, St. Vincent CMC -- Police are searching for the gunmen who shot and killed two people here including a 24-year-old woman on Monday night. Police said that Aninka Stowe, a mother of an eight-year-old girl, died at the Milton Cato…

Kingston, Jamaica -- The Government has issued guidelines to operators of funeral establishments and mortuaries geared at preventing the transmission of infectious diseases as it cautions members of the public to cease spreading…

Port of Spain, Trinidad -- “THE EVIL men doeth, live after them and at times even while they are still alive”. This was a line contained in a statement issued on Tuesday by Minster of National Security Gary Griffith following the barring…

Havana, Cuba -- Presidents Evo Morales of Bolivia and Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela agreed on the success of a recent summit of the countries within the regional bloc known as Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of the Americas-Commercial…

Kingston, Jamaica, CMC -- The Governments of Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, on Thursday issued an immediate travel bans against certain persons traveling directly or indirectly from some countries in West Africa. In Jamaica – the…

Port of Spain, Trinidad (Trinidad Express) -- Jamaican beauty Rachel Biesray has won the Miss Divali Nagar 2014 crown. Biesray got the judges’ nod over 11 other delegates who participated in the show at the National Council of Indian…

Kingstown, St Vincent -- The first Council of Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) health ministers meeting held on last Thursday in Kingstown, St Vincent and the Grenadines, identified chikungunya and Ebola as the most urgent…

Bridgetown, Barbados (CMC) -- Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell says he is prepared to act as a mediator in the ongoing pay dispute between West Indies players and their representative, the West Indies Players Association (WIPA)…

Hamilton, Bermuda -- Bermuda residents cleaned up on Saturday after Hurricane Gonzalo battered the island for several hours late Friday night with sustained winds of 110 mph and wind gusts recorded of up to 144 mph. According to the…

Port of Spain, Trinidad -- Leader of the Jamaat-Al-Muslimeen group in Trinidad and Tobago, Yasin Abu Bakr, who staged a violent, unsuccessful coup attempt in 1990, sat immediately beneath a sign at his Mucarapo Secondary School that read:…

Kingston, Jamaica -- Members of the Rastafari group in Jamaica today showed their appreciation to Nation of Islam leader Lious Farrakhan at the staging of the Million Man March now underway at the National Arena. Members of the group were…

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (Trinidad Express) — Trinidad’s security minister yesterday said that the Jamaican Government paid over $230,000 to hire a private jet to send Muslimeen leader Yasin Abu Bakr back to Trinidad and Tobago yesterday,…

ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC) — Antigua and Barbuda has become the latest Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country to issue a ban on travellers from Ebola-affected countries in West Africa. Director of Communication Maurice Merchant told the…