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By Eric LeCompte Guest Writer WASHINGTON, D.C. (IPS) – As the International Monetary Fund shares initial proposals for Grenada’s debt restructuring during the Washington DC meetings this week, the Caribbean island could gain a reputation for more than nutmeg, calypso, ...

LONDON, England CMC – The British Royal Navy says a warship deployed in the Caribbean seized cannabis and cocaine with a street value of £58 million (US$92 million) in two busts just days apart. On Saturday, the Royal Navy said ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – The Office of Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has launched its disclosure protocol, which it says will serve to enhance transparency and accountability in the justice system. The protocol deals with the stages, content, exemptions to, ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – The Cabinet has approved a contract amounting to US$1.45 million for the manufacture and delivery of one aircraft rescue, a fire-fighting vehicle and other rescue equipment for the Norman Manley International airport. Information Minister, Sandrea Falconer, ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – The Guyana government Friday, confirmed that the crew of a vessel conducting a multi-beam survey of the seafloor in the country’s exclusive economic zone had been arrested by Venezuela. A government statement described the incident, which ...

ROSEAU, Dominica CMC – The Roman Catholic Church Friday, said it would await a ruling from Rome following an investigation into allegations that a priest had sexually abused a girl more than two decades ago. Bishop Gabriel Malzire in a ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – The Jamaica Council of Churches (JCC), on Monday, accepted a position paper that disregards same-sex marriage in the country. “God’s perfect design, as expressed in Scripture, is for sexual intimacy to take place between one man ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. CMC – A major think tank here, claims gangs are the “new law” in urban Trinidad and Tobago, saying that recent incidents of intense violence in the twin-island republic have drawn attention to the “rampant gang problem.” In ...

By Desmond Brown Caribbean Correspondent GEORGETOWN, Guyana (IPS) – Climbing up the coconut industry has been anything but easy for Rosamund Benn, who has dedicated the past 32 years of her life working on a 50-acre coconut farm in The ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 jolted several; Caribbean countries including Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana, last Friday night, the Trinidad-based Seismic Unit of the University of the West Indies (UWI) confirmed, last ...