PARAMARIBO, Suriname (CMC) – The National Assembly has approved legislation formally abolishing the death penalty in the Dutch-speaking Caribbean Community (Caricom) country. But the legislators raised the highest prison term limits from 30 to 50 years in what is seen as a compromise to amending the...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) – A High Court judge has sentenced the 42-year-old mother of a secondary school student and her lover to more than 200 years in jail after they were found guilty of killing the child in 2010. The court heard that the body of...
Deputy Leader of the Opposition United Progressive Party (UPP) Harold Lovell said government needs to provide other jobs for LIAT workers who might be severed if the airline’s Board gets its way. The former tourism and civil aviation minister said this could be done through creating...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – The Barbados Government has defended allegations that the island does not welcome citizens from other Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries insisting that it had deported a “very small percentage” of people. “We hear very often about the number of people we deport from...
Ahead of World Glaucoma Week March 8 to 14, the local Glaucoma Support Group is highlighting the connection between the eye disease and sickle cell anemia. Pediatrician Dr Edda Hadeed of the Sickle Cell Association explained that the sticky, sickle shaped white blood cells that characterise...