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Born in 1887, in St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica, Garvey had been employed as a journalist, printer and labor organizer in the Caribbean and England before returning to Jamaica to establish the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), an organization rooted in the notion that black people throughout the
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Some small-island economies could collapse under the weight of COVID-19 - Mottley
One of the Caribbean’s most experienced politicians, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, has raised the grim spectre that some small-island developing states – numbered among which are several Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member countries – could simply collapse under what might become the
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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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Owen Arthur calls Harmon ‘out of order’ for attack on Gonsalves
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Bank of England says sorry for slave links as UK faces past
LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England has apologized for the slave 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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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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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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An acknowledgement by Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett, on Thursday, makes as clear as crystal the reason behind the Government’s conviction that now is the time to reopen the country’s borders to international
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Guyanese musician Derry Etkins has died during recovery from a minor
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Padmore, George (1901-1959)
A journalist, radical activist, and theoretician, George Padmore did more than perhaps any other single individual to shape the theory and discourse of Pan-African anti-imperialism in the first half of the twentieth
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Haitian-American Legislator Condemns 'Egregious, Inhumane' Treatment By NYPD | New York Carib News
A Haitian-American legislator has strongly condemned what she describes as the “egregious and inhumane” treatment meted out to a 33-year-old Black man during a New York Police Department (NYPD) enforcement of the social distancing mandate of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic last
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Actions of Granger and surrogates clearly demonstrate he “don’t give a damn” about preserving democratic values
In 2007, a much younger former U.S. President Jimmy Carter wrote “Beyond the White House,” about his post-presidency work with The Carter Center, an institution he and his wife help create in
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Former ACP boss decries lack of official result in Guyana's elections
GEORGTOWN, Guyana (CMC) — Former secretary general of the African Caribbean and Pacific States (ACP), Dr Patrick I Gomes says it is “shameful” that four months after a regional and general election, voters in Guyana are yet to know the official
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Key state agencies are prisoners of political crowding
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