(CMC) – Imagine disaster early warning systems using the latest tools offered by artificial intelligence and augmented reality. Imagine tourists having ubiquitous access to one Gigabit secure wireless hot spots. Imagine students engaged real time in data analytics with environmental scientists across the world via advanced networks. These are just a few examples of the ...

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(CMC) – Jamaica will host a one-day conference that seeks to develop the capacity of the small and medium tourism enterprises (SMTEs) to deliver on the demand of the sector and generate more economic growth. The January 29 Global Conference on ‘Jobs and Inclusive Growth: Small and Medium Tourism Enterprises (SMTEs) is being hosted in ...

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(CMC) – The Guyana government is arguing that it was a miscalculation of the majority of all elected members of parliament, as required by the constitution, for it to have been defeated on a vote of no confidence. This is among the submissions the Chamber of the Attorney General filed in the Supreme Court on ...

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(CMC) – The Guyana Manganese Inc. (GMI) says it will invest an estimated GUY$2.2 billion (one Guyana dollar=US$0.004 cents) in a project in Matthews Ridge, a small town in the north-west district of the country. The project, set to be completed by the end of March this year, is expected to contribute towards Guyana’s economy ...

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(CMC) – As he prepares to step down from the bench, the St. Vincent and the Grenadines-born judge on recall in New Jersey is issuing words of encouragement to all on their career path. Judge Emille R. Cox, an administrative supervising judge of compensation (retired on recall), is to be honoured during the Dr. Martin ...

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(CMC) – The Trinidad and Tobago government says legislation which seeks to deal with asylum requests from foreign nationals has been prepared even as Venezuelan nationals staged a protest here on Friday over what they described as “ignorance of the international protection on status” in the oil rich-twin island republic. Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi told ...

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(CMC) – A Jamaican-born soldier, Ricardo Gibbs, has become Bermuda’s first road fatality of the year after his motorcycle hit a wall, police said. President of the Jamaican Association, Roxanne Christopher, said Gibbs’ death at the age of 40 was a huge loss to both Bermuda and the island’s Jamaican community. Christopher described Gibbs, a ...

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(CMC) – Two former senior insurance executives in Barbados have been named in the money laundering case in the United States involving former Barbados government minister, Donville Innis. The indictment unveiled here on Friday names former Insurance Corporation of Barbados Limited (ICBL) chief executive officer, Ingrid Innes, and former ICBL senior vice-president, Alex Tasker, as ...

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(CMC) – The Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (UWI), Robert Bermudez, has appointed a nine-member Commission on Governance for the university. The Commission, which is chaired by former president of the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Sir Dennis Byron, includes a multidisciplinary team with expertise in law, people, finance and corporate ...

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West Indies cricket chiefs are standing by the decision to name Richard Pybus as their new head coach despite a storm of criticism which greeted the Englishman’s appointment, AFP has reported in a dispatch from St John’s, Antigua & Barbuda. Pybus previously worked as director of cricket for the West Indies from 2013 to 2016. […]

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