The Global Peace Index Report for 2017 is out and five countries in the Caribbean and one CARICOM nation in South America have made the list as the six most dangerous in the entire region. The report compiled by the Institute for Economics and Peace covered...
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The police, through its communication arm, the Corporate Communications Unit (CCU), is reporting that 449 guns and 7,899 rounds of ammunition have been seized across the island since January 01. According to statistics released today, Area Four, which comprises of Kingston Central, Kingston...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AFP) — One prison officer was killed and seven others were injured during a jailbreak in South America's Guyana that saw inmates set fire to the facility and four prisoners escape, authorities said. Chaos broke out at the colonial-era maximum security prison in the...
A man is now in police custody following yesterday's brutal slaying of two men in an early morning gun attack, which also left two underaged boys and a dog with gunshot wounds. Thirty-year-old cook Julio Daniels, and his 34-year-old brother-in-law Fabian Atkinson were shot dead by...
The Caribbean has the highest rate of mortality in the Americas from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) with more than 40 per cent of NCD deaths occurring prematurely in people under 70 years old. Health experts told reporters Wednesday that the NCD epidemic, such as diabetes, hypertension, cancer,...