GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) - CARICOM Secretary-General Irwin LaRocque has met with a delegation from the French island of Guadeloupe, which is one of five Caribbean territories that have applied for associate membership of the 15-member regional integration movement, Caricom. A Caricom Secretariat statement Friday said that...
[caption id="attachment_3601" align="alignleft" width="300"] SCOTT… there is more access to information about contraceptives[/caption] THE National Family Planning Board (NFPB) has reported an increase in contraceptive use among Jamaican women. The most recent statistics show that 85 per cent of women have used a contraceptive method and up...
[caption id="attachment_3571" align="alignleft" width="300"] CCJ Logo[/caption] A senior academic yesterday rejected arguments being put forward in favour of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) becoming the country's final court, but said any decision in embracing the CCJ must be made by the people. "This is an opportunity...
MISSISSAUGA (CMC) – Canadian police are hunting for the trafficker of five kilograms of cocaine imported on a flight that came from St Maarten on Sunday. The seizure was made by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), as officers monitored the offload of baggage arriving on...
PARIS, France (AFP) – Media freedom suffered a "drastic decline" worldwide last year in part because of extremist groups such as Islamic State and Boko Haram, the watchdog group Reporters Without Borders said in its annual evaluation released Thursday. "There has been an overall deterioration linked...