First Lady of Burkina Faso to visit Jamaica

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The First Lady of Burkina Faso, Chantal Compaoré is scheduled to arrive here on Monday as part of a delegation from the West African country. The purpose of the mission is to learn about Jamaica’s experience in preventing adolescent pregnancies and suppor...
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Support for the fight against human trafficking

KINGSTON, Jamaica - JAMAICA'S law-enforcement agencies should feel a sense of achievement with news of the country's removal from the United States' State Department trafficking in persons Tier 2 watch list. National Security Minister Peter Bunting shared the news with the nation during...
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Caribbean becoming hotbed for film production

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- Halfway through Godfather II, a tense scene unfolds in which Michael Corleone watches from the back seat of a taxi as a rebel blows himself up on a street in pre-revolutionary Cuba. By the time the scene was shot in the early 70s, Fidel Castro had already taken o...
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Christians protest Court challenge to buggery law

KINGSTON, Jamaica - HUNDREDS of Christians staged two mass meetings at opposite ends of the island yesterday in protest against a challenge to the buggery law scheduled to be heard in the Supreme Court tomorrow. The protest in Kingston, the capital city, was held at National Heroes Park, while in Mo...
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Jamaica triples earnings from creative industry

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Government marketing agency, Jamaica Promotions (Jampro) is aiming to attract overseas jobs for Jamaican animators within the context of the country tripling its year-on-year earnings from creative-industry projects beyond J$1.1 billion. The agency will leverage the talent, lang...
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Police issue warnings as opposition leader plans one-man protest

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC – The St. Kitts-Nevis police have denied permission to the main opposition People’s Action Movement (PAM) to stage a protest march in Wednesday and warned persons they would be prosecuted if they participate in any illegal march. PAM has already described the ...
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School children and violence

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - SOMETIMES WE JUST do not want to accept some of the unsavoury things happening in our society. We would rather pretend that the situation does not exist. Unfortunately, ignoring the problems will not make the problem disappear. Such is the case with the apparent growing incid...
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Guyanese named President of US University

ATLANTA, Georgia, CMC – The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia has voted unanimously in appointing a Guyanese academic as the ninth president of Fort Valley State University. Dr. Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith, provost and senior vice president at York College of the City University ...
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PM denies lack of consultation ahead of budget

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has dismissed suggestions that his administration has not engaged in public consultations ahead of the presentation of the 2013-14 national budget. General Secretary of the Dominica Public service Union (DPSU), Thomas Letang, spoke of t...
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Air traffic controllers ordered back on the job

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - Air Traffic Controllers who took industrial action on Saturday, were ordered to return to work following the granting of a court injunction obtained by the Ministry of Labour on Sunday afternoon. The over forty air traffic controllers at the two international airports, the N...
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