[caption id="attachment_15226" align="alignright" width="300"] PRIME MINISTER ALLEN CHASTANET[/caption] CASTRIES, St Lucia (CMC) – Prime Minister Allen Chastanet has told St Lucians that it is “no secret” that the island has exhausted all of the efforts aimed at providing financial assistance to citizens in the wake of...
Caribbean countries that succeed in tackling their infection rates have many different challenges but one enemy is common: COVID-19. We look at the bottom 12 Caribbean countries and territories that have the lowest number of active cases to zero active cases as of October 12...
A research centre at the the University of the West Indies (UWI) campus in Jamaica, says it has discovered the presence of anti-cancer properties in purple yams. The UWI, Mona Campus says Dr Dennis Bailey from the Biotechnology Centre made the discovery while conducting doctoral studies. The...
Vacation became a nightmare for a Queens man who claims he was unwittingly turned into a drug mule. Simeon Wilson, 50, had just spent a week in his native Guyana celebrating his elderly dad’s birthday when he picked up his bag from the luggage carousel at...
MIAMI, United States (CMC) — The United States Coast Guard says it has collaborated with partner nations in halting more than 4,000 pounds of cocaine during September, worth almost US$73 million throughout the Caribbean. The US Coast Guard said these interdictions were “a direct result of...