Jamaica’s health Minister Dr. Fenton Ferguson says while the country can be proud of being on track for achieving the Millennium Development Goal of combating the effect of hiv/aids ,malaria and other diseases, Jamaica is finding it challenging to preserve the gains in the face of crushing debt at 140% of GDP and reduced funding to access ARVS and other HIV treatment interventions.
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Port of Spain, Trinidad, Tues. May 14, 2013: The 3rd annual Caribbean Investment Forum (CIF), an ini...
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One of Jamaica's noted saxophonists, Cedric “Im” Brooks, has died. He was 70 years old.
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AMSTERDAM–Finally there may be peace for the 680 Africans who perished when the Dutch slave ship Leu...
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AMERICAN performers continue to dominate the Billboard Reggae Album Chart, according to the latest i...
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NEW YORK, NY, Fri. May 17, 2013: Almost three dozen Caribbean athletes, led by three-time Olympic go...
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LONDON, England, Mon. May 13, 2013: West Indies opening batsman, Kieran Powell, has sealed a deal wi...
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THE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade has begun a probe into the status of Jamaican cycl...
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West Indies cricket will never be without its records. Neither will West Indian society be without i...
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KINGSTON, Jamaica, April Prime Minister and Minister of Sport, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller h...
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It was no secret that Austin Jack Warner, world football power broker and deep-pocketed political be...
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INTENSE interest will be centred upon the XXVIII CONCACAF Congress, which begins today in Panama, wi...
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NEW YORK TIMES — Even as Apple became the nation’s most profitable technology company, it avoided bi...
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PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, May 12, 2013 - The legal department at the Ministry of Health has written t...
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