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HAVANA (AP): The COVID-19 pandemic is slamming Cuba like never before, even as the country races to roll out its home-grown vaccines – the only locally-developed shots being widely used in Latin America. The island had seen far fewer infections...

BRIDGETOWN, (CMC): Barbados Tuesday announced that it would be cutting by 50 per cent airport taxes for regional travellers, a request that had originally been made by Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister Gaston Browne as a means of encouraging...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): The Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) on Tuesday signed a Euro 30-million (one euro=US$1.29 cents) agreement with the European Investment Bank (EIB) that will assist borrowing member countries (BMCs) to...

NASSAU, Bahamas (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis has brushed aside suggestions from the Opposition Leader Phillip Davis that he intends to call a general election before the constitutional deadline of August 2022, telling the nation to pay no...

AHRWEILER, Germany (AP): The Rev Joerg Meyrer steels himself before making his way through the stinking piles of mud-caked debris that permeate this once-beautiful town in Germany’s wine-growing Ahr valley. For the past five days, the 58-year-old...

WASHINGTON (AP): The Biden administration took a step toward its goal of shutting down the Guantánamo Bay detention centre for terror suspects Monday, releasing into the custody of his home country a Moroccan who’d been held without charge almost...

CASTRIES (CMC): The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be sending an observation mission to monitor the general election in St Lucia, which will be held on July 26. The 10-member mission will be headed by Fern Narcis-Scope, chief elections officer...

BERLIN (AP) German Chancellor Angela Merkel surveyed what she called a “surreal, ghostly” scene in a devastated village on Sunday, pledging quick financial aid and a redoubled political focus on curbing climate change as the death toll from...