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CARICOM, Canadian public health sector officials to meet | New York Carib News
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — Public health officials from the Caribbean Community (Caricom) are to meet with their counterparts from Canada as the region begins the process of reopening its borders to allow international travel back into the Caribbean, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has
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Kenya: Uhuru Calls for Solidarity to Defeat Coronavirus
President Uhuru Kenyatta has emphasised the need for global solidarity in response to the Covid-19
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Marshall and Dutchin among featured artistes on regional unity song
Guyanese Timeka Marshall and Adrian Dutchin are among 25 artistes from 14 Caribbean countries who have joined their voices for a song to give hope during the current
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Rotimi was born to an Ijaw mother and a Yoruba father, and cultural diversity was a frequent theme in his work. Educated in Nigeria in Port Harcourt and Lagos, he traveled to the United States in 1959 to study at Boston University. After receiving a B.A. in fine arts in 1963, he attended the Yale
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Former BoJ Governor Bryan Wynter joins NCB as consultant
Former Bank of Jamaica Governor Brian Wynter has joined the NCB Financial Group Limited as a consultant senior
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Trini fraudsters using new strategies to steal money
Assistant Superintendent of Police Curtis Julien told a news conference that scammers have now resorted to using point-of-sale machines in business places rather than automated teller machines (ATM) to get cash from unsuspecting
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Rwanda: Lift Sanctions Against Sudan, Zimbabwe - Kagame
President Paul Kagame has called for the review and consideration of sanctions against two African countries, Sudan and Zimbabwe, to support their ability to respond to the Covid-19
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Crowne wins defamation case against fellow law professor
In a judgment handed down in the High Court in Trinidad and Tobago last Monday, Professor Julie McFarlane was ordered to pay Dr Emir Crowne TT$450,000 (J$9.68 million) at the end of a defamation suit filed in his home
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Caribbean Graduate School of Theology gets first female president
SHORTLY after she assumed responsibility as campus registrar at the Caribbean Graduate School of Theology (CGST), Dr Viviene Kerr was identified as the best person to take the institution to the next level as its new
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Cuba is synonymous with cigars because for a very long time it has been on the world map for exporting the best
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Stewarts aren’t racists, says JHTA’s Robinson
Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association President Omar Robinson has lambasted critics who have launched a social-media campaign targeting Sandals hotel moguls Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart and his son
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CCJ to hear Guyana's election case on July 1 | New York Carib News
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — The Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Thursday said it has given no indication as to whether or not it has jurisdiction to hear an appeal filed by the two senior members of the main opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) in relation to
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COVID-19 exposes sub-standard regional health services - ECLAC
The global onset of the coronavirus and the attendant need for health-related responses have exposed the debilitating limitations of the health services in Latin America and the Caribbean countries, says a recent report prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America
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Jamaican appointed new IFC regional manager for the Caribbean | New York Carib News
WASHINGTON, United States (CMC) — The International Finance Corporation (IFC) Tuesday announced that Jamaican, Judith Green, has been appointed the regional manager for the Caribbean, overseeing operations in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and the English-speaking
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Tourist pretesting back on agenda - Tufton admits island’s COVID-19 response buckling under pressure
The Jamaican Government is reconsidering the imposition of COVID-19 pretesting of arriving tourists as the coronavirus response architecture at the island’s airports has been overwhelmed by passenger traffic, Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton admitted on
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Kenya: President Kenyatta Calls for Solidarity as World Leaders Discuss Post COVID-19 Recovery
President Kenyatta spoke Thursday evening during a virtual high level meeting on development financing in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic convened by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, his Jamaican counterpart Andrew Holness and the United Nations Secretary General Antonio
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FirstCaribbean reports big loss due to COVID
(Jamaica Gleaner) CIBC First Caribbean Interna-tional Bank, which operates in Jamaica and throughout the region, recorded a net loss of US$110 million for the April second quarter, due to the impact of COVID-19 on its
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Supreme Court permits 16 listed companies to hold virtual AGM
THE Supreme Court has given the green light for 16 companies listed on the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) to hold their annual general meetings (AGMs) virtually, either in full or
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Guyanese cricketers stranded in TT expected to return
With over 300 confirmed Guyanese stranded overseas during the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, four cricketers stranded in Trinidad and Tobago are expected to be reunited with their families at
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Bank of England says sorry for slave links as UK faces past
LONDON, England (AP) — The Bank of England has apologised for the links some of its past governors had with slavery, as a global anti-racism movement sparked by the death of George Floyd forces many British institutions to confront uncomfortable truths about their
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Jamaica top of the Heap - Writer wins Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Caribbean
Emerging as the Caribbean winner of the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize has stunned celebrated Jamaican author and theatre director Brian Heap, who initially planned to use the competition as a spark to complete a work he had been fiddling with for five
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UWI Caribbean students feel trapped, abandoned in Jamaica
(Jamaica Gleaner) Caribbean students still stuck at The University of the West Indies, Mona, are anxious to get home as the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc across the
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CSEC students leery over exam changes, online testing and COVID-19
Following the Caribbean Exami-nation Council’s decision to allow the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Pro-ficiency Examination (CAPE) exams to be done online in wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic, Guyana’s students, their parents and teachers are still
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Use game technology to promote online learning - Bunting
Peter Bunting, the Opposition spokesman on education, wants schools to use modern technology, including interactive gaming software, to access learning material and promote online networking among
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Every government, organization or person who has publicly condemned the flagrant, vulgar and incessant attempts by the rigging cabal and their acolytes to perpetrate fraud at the 2nd March 2020 elections held in Guyana and to attempt to defeat the will of the electorate and steal the new
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