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Dengue fever vaccine search in progress

Dengue fever vaccine search in progress

The Sanofi Pasteur laboratory has announced the launch of new clinical studies in Singapore and Vietnam on its candidate vaccine against dengue fever. This means...
Wyclef Jean: Not so Haitian

Wyclef Jean: Not so Haitian

Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council will not budge despite Wyclef Jean's struggle to appeal its decision not to allow him to run in the country's...
Wyclef Jean: “If I Was President”

Wyclef Jean: “If I Was President”

Wyclef Jean's presidential aspiration has been rekindled after having been rejected by Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council. The entertainer has decided to fight last week's...
Haiti: Wyclef Jean for President?

Haiti: Wyclef Jean for President?

World acclaimed entertainer Wyclef Jean's family Tuesday confirmed that the former Fugees member will run in the Haitian presidential elections in November. The artist,...
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Dustin Brown, the next Yannick Noah?

The 25 year old tennis player, Dustin Brown did not go unnoticed at the 2010 Wimbledon championship. His performance and show stopping stage persona...
Caribbean leaders join African Union meeting in Uganda

Caribbean leaders join African Union meeting in Uganda

Uganda has invited thirteen Caribbean heads of state from to attend the African Union (AU) summit due to take place in Kampala in July2010. 51 heads...
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Vanessa James and Yannick Bonheur: Black on Ice

The French skating pair, Yannick Bonheur and Vanessa James electrified spectators at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Dancing to the tune of Romeo and...
Caribbean: Honing tsunami warning system

Caribbean: Honing tsunami warning system

Frequent Caribbean earthquakes and concern about tsunamis prompted the island nations, the UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and neighbors, including the United States, to...
Botswana: Radical Jamaican cleric trained Batswana to attack 2010 World Cup?

Botswana: Radical Jamaican cleric trained Batswana to attack 2010 World Cup?

A radical Jamaican cleric, Abdullah al-Faisal, who was recently deported from several African countries was operating a “suicide bomber camp” in Botswana, a publication...
Tools to better understand earthquakes

Tools to better understand earthquakes

Today, only the generosity of nations can help the tragic victims of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, January 12. But...
Haiti-Senegal: Abdoulaye Wade reaches out to Haitians

Haiti-Senegal: Abdoulaye Wade reaches out to Haitians

The government of Senegal has offered land and reparation settlements to Haitian victims who so wish to live in Senegal, following the devastating earthquake...
Haiti’s disastrous earthquake prompts tsumami warning for Caribbean and Central America

Haiti’s disastrous earthquake prompts tsumami warning for Caribbean and Central America

An unprecedented disaster struck Haiti January 12, 2010 At 16:53 local time, 21h53 universal time. A magnitude 7 earthquake, with its epicentre located a...
Rwanda shuns La Francophonie for British commonwealth

Rwanda shuns La Francophonie for British commonwealth

Rwanda has experienced another measure of development in its post-genocide era as the country becomes the 54th nation of the Commonwealth of Nations. Rwanda,...
Travel ban affects Malawi President’s Commonwealth trip

Travel ban affects Malawi President’s Commonwealth trip

Crippling foreign currency and fuel shortages have prompted Malawi government to ban all foreign trips by government officials. The ban has also affected that country’s leader,...
Rihanna: A Glamorous and Angry Diva

Rihanna: A Glamorous and Angry Diva

Rihanna is not just an angry woman but also the most “Glamorous woman of the Year”, according to U.S. magazine Glamour. Glamour and Diva...
Canada’s first “Black only” school under heavy criticism

Canada’s first “Black only” school under heavy criticism

The "Africentric Alternative School" in Toronto is Canada’s first "Afrocentric" public school. Catering for students of African or Afro-Caribbean descent, the school's main aim...
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Neomie Lenoir: A graceful lesson

Widely known as a top model an actress and a mother, Noemie Lenoir reveals another facet of her personality, which is all about generosity...
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Blood Ties

My trip to Nassau, Bahamas began in Los Angeles, California, but it didn’t really begin until my layover in Fort Lauderdale Airport in Miami....
British company charged with bribing Ghanaian and Jamaican officials between ’94 and 2001 to set precedence

British company charged with bribing Ghanaian and Jamaican officials between ’94 and 2001 to set precedence

The case of Mabey & Johnson – which makes bridges based on the portable Bailey crossing used by Allied troops during the second world...
Haiti, the West’s poorest, gets a new lease of life

Haiti, the West’s poorest, gets a new lease of life

Now is the time to help Haiti because inaction would lead to significantly greater human suffering, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says. The...
Haiti: A mud eating population warns the world

Haiti: A mud eating population warns the world

At a corner street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, a sweets vendor takes 5 cents from a schoolgirl and hands her what looks like a...
Caribbean and West Africa’s trans-Atlantic cocain trade

Caribbean and West Africa’s trans-Atlantic cocain trade

According to the International Narcotics Control Board, stockpiles of cocaine are being built up in West Africa from where it is smuggled into Europe,...
Chelsea’s Mikel Obi takes on Jamaica for Super Eagles

Chelsea’s Mikel Obi takes on Jamaica for Super Eagles

Fresh from losing to Columbia, the Nigerian football federation and the head coach of the Nigerian super eagles Shaibu Amodu has decided to recall...
Eric Holder to become first Black U.S. Attorney General

Eric Holder to become first Black U.S. Attorney General

U.S. President-elect, Barack Obama, will appoint Eric Holder as Attorney General. According to a party official the former deputy attorney general accepted Obama’s offer...
EU undermining African economic stability

EU undermining African economic stability

For years African and other developing countries have been urged to “trade their way out of poverty” by exporting more products internationally instead of...
FIFA world ranking : Jamaica and Mali up, Kenya plunges

FIFA world ranking : Jamaica and Mali up, Kenya plunges

Kenya has fallen six positions in the latest FIFA/Coca Cola World rankings released by the world governing body Wednesday. The drop was triggered by...
Sex Poverty and HIV/AIDS on a Caribbean Island

Sex Poverty and HIV/AIDS on a Caribbean Island

After her aunt turned her out onto the chaotic streets of Port-au-Prince, capital of Haiti, eight months ago, Marie Jessy*, 16, survived by befriending...
Trinidad and Tobago and Ghana renew commitment towards greater co-operation

Trinidad and Tobago and Ghana renew commitment towards greater co-operation

Ghana and Trinidad and Tobago Monday renewed their commitment towards greater co-operation for the mutual benefit of their peoples. Ghanaian President John Agyekum Kufuor and...
Jamaican Usain Bolt sets new record but can he run faster ?

Jamaican Usain Bolt sets new record but can he run faster ?

Jamaica’s Usain Bolt, who prior to this season had not run a 100-metre race as a senior, won the ultimate sprint prize, the Olympic...
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Sophia Nelson sings Jazz

Sophia Nelson was born in Ghana, where the local music -- high-life -- is directly related to Caribbean calypso and Cuban rhythms. This could...