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Advocacy group in Jamaica calls for sex offenders registry to be made public

 The non-governmental organisation – Fi We Children Foundation,  has joined calls for the sex offenders registry to be made public, following the rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl in...

Mother, three children buried as Guyana ferry tragedy death toll climbs to 73

 A mother and three of her children were laid to rest on Friday as a sense of unimaginable...

IDB Invest announces strategic partnership to support Caribbean growth

IDB Invest, the private-sector arm of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB Group) says it has entered into a...

Death toll in Guyana ferry tragedy climbs as regional recovery effort expands

 Search, rescue and recovery operations following the capsizing of the MV Barima have intensified with the arrival of...

Efforts to refloat sunken MV Barima to begin today

GEORGETOWN – The Guyana government says it will begin operations at midday on Wednesday to refloat the sunken...

Woman pleads guilty to threatening the life of Prime Minister Persad-Bissessar

A 30 year-old woman, who appeared in a TikTok video calling on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to kill Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar will be...

CAL to discontinue flights to some Caribbean destinations

PORT OF SPAIN – The state-owned national carrier, Caribbean Airlines (CAL) says it will discontinue services on several regional routes as part of its...

“The Mood is Red” in St Lucia

They forgot to inform the voters in St. Lucia that the code is yellow in the Caribbean, and so on Monday the “Mood is...

UNAIDS urges Caribbean to overcome disruption to transform AIDS response

UNAIDS Monday reaffirmed its commitment working with governments, civil society and people living with and most affected by HIV in the Caribbean region to...

Region warned that climate change is putting a strain on global food systems

The former president of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), Dr. Agnes Kalibata, says climate change will continue to strain global food...

US assisting with radar system in Tobago

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has confirmed that the United States is installing a new radar system in Tobago to monitor activity within and beyond...