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KINGSTON, Jamaica - Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller on Monday accepted the credentials of the new Australian High Commissioner, Ross William Tysoe, at a meeting held at the Office of the Prime Minister in Kingston. Simpson Miller…

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) – The Dominican Republic will present new legislation to Parliament on February 27 to address the Constitutional court ruling that denies citizenship to children of Haitian migrants in the Spanish-speaking…

Farmers at the Yallahs Agro-Park in St Thomas now have the benefit of a $395-million irrigation system which, it is hoped, will assist in boosting onion production. Chairman of the National Irrigation Commission Limited (NIC) Conrad…

Ocho Rios, St Ann -- Claudia Brown wiped tears from her eyes as she protested alongside her craft vendor colleagues in Ocho Rios on Thursday. A craft trader for over 20 years, Brown lamented that she is a single parent taking care of eight…

Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller says finance minister and the man who challenged her in a bruising contest for the leadership of the People's National Party (PNP), has her full support and that of the Cabinet. Asked if there was any…

A few years ago, students of Whitehall Primary School in St Thomas were labelled as rowdy and got into almost daily fights, but a staff initiative aimed at rewarding them for doing good deeds is helping to significantly curb behavioural…

Kingston, Jamaica -- Three District Constables were arrested and charged by the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) for breaches of the Corruption Prevention Act after several sting operations were conducted between January 30 and February 1, the…

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica -- The Freeport main road in Montego Bay, St James, is currently being rehabilitated by the National Works Agency (NWA) at a cost of $8 million. State Minister for Transport, Works and Housing, Richard Azan,…

PORT OF SPAIN,Trinidad - Banking giant RBC Financial (Caribbean) Ltd is continuing to streamline its operations, this time sending home 20 employees from its Business Development Unit at a number of branches across the country. The layoffs…

ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC) -- Antigua and Barbuda's Attorney General, Justin Simon QC, remained in hospital late Saturday in stable condition after collapsing at a restaurant, an official source has said. Simon, said to be in his fifties,…

CASTRIES, St.Lucia - The appointment of Dr Gale Rigobert as the country’s new Leader of the Opposition United Workers Party (UWP) has now been confirmed. Dr. Rigobert was selected a week after Parliamentary Representative for Castries…

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- William ‘Bunny Rugs’ Clarke former lead singer of the popular band Third World has died in a Miami hospital. Clarke who would have turned 66 on Thursday, February 6, had been in intensive care for some time. He missed…

Montego Bay, St James -- Lambert Johnson, the attorney who represented the two Irwin brothers who were last July acquitted of rape and a slew of other charges arising from the rape of five females at Irwin Point in 2012, has written to the…

Green Island, Hanover -- For more than 10 years, Green Island, a rapidly developing town that sits mid-way between Lucea and the resort town of Negril, has been without a functioning fire hydrant. Its absence has caused many sleepless…

The following is a statement by the Director of Elections Orette Fisher in response to a recent controversy regarding the secrecy of votes. Said Fisher: Recently, there has been discussion in the public sphere as to whether political…