Fifty-two per cent (52%) of the candidates who wrote the CSEC Mathematics examination for 2020 have passed. And this is, in fact, "a slight improvement" over 49 per cent passes in 2018 and "a marked improvement" over 2019 when some 46 per cent of candidates attained...
WASHINGTON, United States (CMC) — The Inter-American Task Force on NCDs is urging Caribbean countries to improve their prevention and control programmes so as to reduce the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The task force — which includes the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the...
ST GEORGE'S, Grenada (CMC) – The Grenada government said today that it will stage public consultations as part of the efforts to determine the changes needed to the national laws and international treaties regarding the decriminalisation of marijuana. “We are going to proceed in a way...
UNITED NATIONS (CMC) — Caribbean Community (Caricom) leaders have joined their global counterparts in adopting a declaration honouring the multilateral framework put in place by the United Nations founders in 1945. The leaders also pledged to better live out the promise to save succeeding generations from...
AMERICAN rapper Kanye West left Jamaica yesterday after arriving in the island on a private jet on Friday morning. Veteran music producer and Buju Banton's manager, Donovan Germain, said, after landing, West paid a courtesy call on the reggae singer at his Corporate Area-based Gargamel Studio. “Kanye...