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Director of The George Alleyne Chronic Disease Research Centre at the Barbados-based Cave Hill campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Dr. Alafia Samuels.

CARICOM | Caribbean has highest rate of mortality from NCDs in the Americas

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, Jul 6, CMC – The Caribbean has the highest rate of mortality in the Americas from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) with more than 40 per cent of NCD deaths occurring prematurely in people under 70 years old.

July 7, 2017
Published in Health

CARIBBEAN | Venezuela and Caribbean to strengthen integration

CARACAS, Apr. 21, CMC – Venezuela and the Caribbean will be working towards strengthening coming projects and regional integration.

April 21, 2017
Published in Politics

CARIBBEAN named among major drug-transit countries

WASHINGTON, Mar 3, CMC – The United States Friday named several Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries as major illicit drug producing and major drug-transit countries with some regional countries also being major money laundering countries.

March 4, 2017
Published in Caribbean

Crime and violence cost Latin America and the Caribbean Countries US$261 billion annually or 3.55 percent of gross domestic product (GDP).

Crime and violence cost regional countries billions of dollars says IDB

WASHINGTON, Feb 4, CMC – A study undertaken by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) estimates the direct annual cost of crime and violence in Latin America and the Caribbean at US$261 billion or 3.55 percent of gross domestic product (GDP).

February 5, 2017
Published in Regional Economy

The Inter-American Development Bank headquarters in Washington D.C. | Photo by Wally Gobetz

IDB approved billions for projects in the Caribbean in 2016

WASHINGTON, Dec 31, CMC – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) says it had provided US$11.7 billion for various projects in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2016.

January 1, 2017
Published in Regional Economy

Destruction of the Roehampton Estate, January 1832. | Photo: Adolphe Duperly

Emancipation Rebellion: Lessons from Jamaica's Sam Sharpe War of 1831!

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, feminist and political figure

December 31, 2016
Published in Opinion

PAHO says 2016, year of serious challenges, important successes in the Caribbean

WASHINGTON, Dec 24, CMC – From the Zika epidemic and the birth of thousands of babies with congenital malformations, through the declaration of measles as eliminated from the Americas, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) says 2016 is a year of “serious challenges and important successes” for health in the Caribbean and other places in the Americas.

December 24, 2016
Published in Health

Jamaica's Ambassador to the United States has welcomed President Obama's signing of the US-Caribbean Strategic Engagement Law

Jamaica’s Envoy to US, Audrey Marks Hails Signing of US-Caribbean Strategic Engagement Law

WASHINGTON, DC, December 19, 2016 - Jamaica’s ambassador to the United States, H.E. Audrey Marks, has welcomed President Obama’s signing into law, of the recently passed United States-Caribbean Strategic Engagement Act (H.R. 4939), aimed at strengthening the United States’ engagement with the Caribbean.

December 18, 2016
Published in Diaspora

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