[caption id="attachment_14332" align="alignleft" width="300"] Measles dangers linger for years after infection[/caption] WASHINGTON, USA (CMC) — The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) says the Americas, including the Caribbean, is the first in the world to have eliminated measles, a viral disease that can cause severe health problems,...
[caption id="attachment_14329" align="alignleft" width="300"] A pair of slave shackles on display in the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture[/caption] GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The United States should give African Americans reparations for slavery, UN experts said yesterday, warning that the country had not...
[caption id="attachment_14326" align="alignleft" width="300"] People making their way to a shelter in St Vincent[/caption] KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC) – A fourth form secondary school student died Wednesday night after he was crushed by a boulder as he tried to alleviate flooding in his home during the...
The Department of Justice announced yesterday that Vania Lee Allen has been sentenced to 40 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for her role in a Jamaica-based lottery fraud scheme. Allen was also ordered to pay $117,000 in restitution. Allen, 30, pleaded...
[caption id="attachment_14318" align="alignleft" width="300"] Johnson Charles was one of three West Indies batsmen bowled by Imad Wasim[/caption] Pakistan completed a 3-0 whitewash of West Indies with a comfortable eight-wicket win in Abu Dhabi that exposed the World T20 champions’ weaknesses in conditions not conducive to big...