A newly-elected Caribbean government says it will consider the issue of decriminalizing marijuana even as Canada on Thursday night voted to approve the legalization of recreational pot with a vote of 56 to 30. The Barbados Labor Party, (BLP), government, made the disclosure this week in...
The majority of Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries abstained from a vote at the Organisation of American States (OAS) as the hemispheric body approved a resolution calling for an extraordinary assembly to vote on suspending Venezuela from the 34-member group. The resolution was spearheaded by the United...
Police have ordered dancehall artiste Mavado to turn himself into the authorities for questioning and have detained the star's son, brother and other relatives at the Constant Spring lock up in relation to the flare up of violence in the entertainer's Cassava Piece, St Andrew...
Mavado was shot at in his home community of Cassava Piece, St Andrew, on Saturday. He was not hurt in the incident. According to the Jamaica Constabulary Force's information arm, the Corporate Communications Unit, he and an individual had an argument around 11:30 on Saturday. The person...
One week after her Barbados Labour Party's (BLP) historic victory at the polls and getting to work on the economic reality in Barbados — meeting with social partners, trade unions and the business community — Mia Mottley telephoned managing director of the International Monetary Fund...