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Community News
Republic Bank acquires more shares in HFC Bank of Ghana
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Republic Bank says it now controls 40 per cent of the HFC Bank Ghana, after acquiring an additional 7.98 per cent shareholding in financial institution.
US to drop fiber-optic cable to Cuba in 2015
MIAMI, CMC – Top United States military officials say a fiber-optic communications cable linking Florida to the US Naval base at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba will be laid in 2015.
Haiti orphanage to be named in honour of former US President Bill Clinton
NEW YORK, CMC – A United States sustainability group says that it will build an orphanage and children’s facility in Haiti in honour of former US President Bill Clinton.
Guyana welcomes Fly Jamaica
KINGSTON, Jamaica - GUYANA'S Prime Minister Samuel Hinds and other Government officials Thursday night hailed the opening up of a direct route from Jamaica to Guyana by Fly Jamaica airline.
Caribbean warned of debt trap
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Jamaican writer Rachel Manley has called on Caribbean governments and Central Banks to engage in visionary economic thinking to benefit the region.
Caribbean leaders make case for reparations at U.N.
UNITED NATIONS -- There are no shortages of challenges facing sun-soaked Caribbean countries — burgeoning unemployment, high crime, a chronic health crisis.