WASHINGTON, DC, USA (CMC) — The United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) has become the first development partner to participate in the new five-year phase (2017-22) of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Regional Technical Assistance Centre in the Caribbean (CARTAC). The DFID has made a...
[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...
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_14301" align="alignleft" width="300"] Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton (R) shakes hands with Republican nominee Donald Trump after the first presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York on Monday.[/caption] Hillary Clinton was calm, cool, well-prepared and — pundits say — victorious in the first presidential...