University of the West Indies Professor Julie Meeks has lamented the lack of the implementation of existing child protection laws in Dominica, and the Caribbean region, and advised that policy makers be “shamed into getting things done.” During her presentation at the Ninth Annual Bernard Sorhaindo...
Three men and a woman are to be arraigned in court tomorrow on charges related to the almost 700 pounds of cannabis seized in a counter-drug operation last week. Two brothers, Kimron John, 31, and Mark John, 27, (who were born in St Vincent but are...
The government is in the process of procuring a mobile mammogram unit to address what Health Minister Molwyn Joseph has described as “an extremely high rate of breast cancer” amongst local women and the late stages at which the disease is being diagnosed. “To me, this...
HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) – Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro turns 90 on Saturday in an island transformed from the one he led for half a century. Both loved as a hero and hated as a dictator, Castro is one of the giant figures of modern...
ST ANN, Jamaica – A woman died this afternoon as a result of injuries she received in a motor vehicle collision on the Llandovery main road in St Ann. Sources say that the crash, which involved a bus and a car, occurred at 2:30 pm. At least...