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By Akinwumi Adesin IPS Guest Writer Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, March 6, 2017 (IPS) — International Women’s Day (IWD) is an important opportunity to celebrate the achievements of women and to be bold in promoting gender parity. Our world would be ...

By Desmond Brown IPS Guyana Correspondent GEORGETOWN, Guyana March 6, 2017 (IPS) — The recent discovery of large volumes of oil, offshore of Guyana, could prove to be a major headache for the country, as the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and ...

By Kenton X. Chance IPS Caribbean Correspondent KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, March 6, 2017 (IPS) — Caribbean leaders worry that with climate change sceptic Donald Trump in the White House, it will be more difficult for small island ...

TORONTO, Ontario March 6, 2017 — Last year, on December 7, a court in Toronto convicted one of the shooters from the 2012 Danzig tragedy. He was 17 at the time he pulled the trigger, and the incident sparked a ...

By Sharmon Carrington PRIDE Contributing Writer AJAX, Ontario March 3, 2017 — Hard working, ambitious and an exemplary leader, Chauntae De Gannes, a first year Political Science and Sociology student of Queens University, has been selected by The Adjudication Committee ...

By Neil Armstrong PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario Friday, March 3, 2017 — An exhibition, featuring artifacts found during an archaeological dig of the new Toronto courthouse site in 2015, and which unearths the history of the Black community in ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, March 3, 2017 (CMC) – Veteran calypsonian Calypso Rose is being honoured for her contribution to the twin island republic and her recent international achievement. During yesterday’s post-Cabinet media briefing Minister of Community Development, ...

By Jomo Kwame Sundaram IPS Guest Writer KUALA LAMPUR, Malaysia March 3, 2017 (IPS) — Unlike Wikileaks and other exposes, the Panama revelations were carefully managed, if not edited, quite selective, and hence targeted, at least initially. Most observers attribute ...

QUEENS, New York March 3, 2017 — Following the success of the acclaimed Grammy Award-winning Strictly Roots, the globally renowned reggae group, Morgan Heritage, announced the name of their new album, yesterday, through a mini-documentary-style video on the Huffington Post. ...

By Martin Khor IPS Guest Writer PENANG, Malaysia March 4, 2017 (IPS) — A new and deadly form of protectionism is being considered by Congress leaders and the President of the United States that could have devastating effect on the ...