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GEORGETOWN, Guyana, (CMC) – The Guyana government says it has developed a “strategic partnership” with the Indian Arrival Committee (IAC) to heighten awareness on the need to prevent suicides in the country. Health Minister Dr Bheri…

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The police were called to maintain a presence at the Half-Way-Tree Transport Centre a short while ago after hundreds of people converged on the area. Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) explained that the large number…

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- A $7 million investment by Government in a new locally produced, low-cost concrete mix is expected to save the country millions in road repair costs, improve road safety and make the problem of potholes a thing of the…

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -- Following several articles previously published on the issue of spyware programs hidden in computers supplied to Caribbean governments and agencies by foreign governments or companies, an amateur radio…

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – Trinidad and Tobago will celebrate its 52nd year of political independence from Britain over the weekend with the coalition People’s Partnership Government assured of its plans to amend the constitution…

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Two men died on Thursday, August 28 as a result of injuries they received in separate motor vehicle crashes in St James and St Elizabeth. In the first instance Jermaine Gooden was driving a Suzuki Baleno motor car along…

Basseterre, St. Kitts (CUOPM) – St. Kitts and Nevis’ Minister of Health, Community and Social Development, the Hon. Marcella Liburd has expressed sadness at the death of Jamaica’s Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. Roger Clarke. “I want all…

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Minister of Health, Dr Fenton Ferguson has welcomed the new Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)/World Health Organization (WHO) representative to Jamaica, Dr Noreen Jack who will begin her tour of duty as of…

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada -- The Grenada Tourism Authority has appointed Margit Schwarz of Discover the World Marketing GmbH as sales representative and focal marketing point in Germany. This appointment supports the imminent return of Condor’s…

NASSAU, Bahamas -- Police were last night still trying to piece together the circumstances that led to the murder of Latore Mackey, the Bahamas Information Services (BIS) deputy director and Prime Minister Perry Christie’s press secretary,…

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Uzziah 'Sticky' Thompson, the veteran percussionist whose career covered ska to reggae, died Monday in Florida at age 78. Thompson died from a heart attack, his son Audley Shakespeare told the OBSERVER ONLINE. Born in…

ST ANN, Jamaica -- Roads in the resort town of Ocho Rios were flooded following heavy rains on Monday afternoon. Several other areas of the north coast parish also received heavy rainfall. The Meteorological Service of Jamaica forecast…

KINGSTON, Jamaica—The Meteorological (MET) Service of Jamaica says the centre of Tropical Storm Cristobal was located near latitude 24.5 degrees north and longitude 72.8 degrees west at 4:00 am Monday and is expected to move away from the…

Kingston, Jamaica -- The Mandeville Police seized four rifles and more than 100 rounds of ammunition in New Green, Manchester on Wednesday, August 20. Reports are that police officers were on operation in the area about 10:24 pm, when the…

Hamilton, Bermuda (CMC) -- The wife of a government legislator died after falling at her home, the second such tragedy to hit the ruling One Bermuda Alliance administration this year. Rochelle Bascome 54, the wife of the St George’s North…