PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Thursday May 19, 2016 – Amid calls for government not to touch laws that allow girls to marry as young as 12 years old, Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister Ayanna Webster-Roy insisted there is a “critical...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) – Five teenagers, including two women, appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts court here Tuesday charged with murdering former university professor Perry Mars, whose body was found tied up at his home in Prashad Nagar last Thursday night. The teenagers were brought to...
VICTORIA, Seychelles, Tuesday May 17, 2016 – On its current development path, the Caribbean in 2050 will face unmanageable debt, poor growth, and greater socio-economic problems, warns a Commonwealth report launched at the Fourth Global Biennial Conference on Small States in Seychelles. The report, ‘Achieving a...
CARACAS, Venezuela, Tuesday May 17, 2016 – Following Friday’s introduction of a nationwide state of emergency, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has threatened the seizure of factories that have halted production, and the jailing of their owners. Maduro said the state of emergency was needed to combat...
KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) says it is continuing its “unrelenting effort” to dismantle the One Order and Clansman gangs operating in St Catherine. A news release from the Corporate Communications Unit says over the last few days, lawmen seized eight firearms...