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TORONTO, Ontario – The Toronto Police Services Board (TPSB) announced, today, the formation of a new “Transformational Task Force”. Consisting of a panel of community members and police experts, the task force will guide the transformation of policing in Toronto, ...

By Amina Mohamed and Siddharth Chatterjee IPS Guest Writers NAIROBI, Kenya (IPS) — When President Barack Obama made his first visit to Kenya as US President in July 2015, one of the poignant messages he left was an exhortation for ...

Photo above: PPP General Secretary, Clement Rohee. Photo credit: PPP. GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – The main opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) yesterday, called on the Guyana government to put in writing, its policy regarding the operations of the state-owned Government ...

CASTRIES, St Lucia CMC – A two-day workshop, aimed at strengthening consumer participation in the development and benefits of information, communication and technology (ICT) regulatory frameworks, begins here today. The event is being organised by the St. Lucia-based Eastern Caribbean ...

WASHINGTON DC CMC – The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) says, an American had been arrested and charged with defrauding Caribbean and other immigrants. The DOJ said, Helaman Hansen, 63, was arrested after a US federal grand jury returned ...

LONDON, England CMC – Jamaica has led Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries in how effectively children can use the law to challenge violations of their rights. In the first-ever global study on children’s access to justice, undertaken by the London-based Child ...

NASSAU, Bahamas CMC – The Bahamas government says, young women have always been free to attend school with their hair “in its natural state”, as it denied reports that a student had been suspended, last week, from the C.R. Walker ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – Yesterday, the Guyana government confirmed its second case of the mosquito-borne Zika virus. The first case involved a female. Public Health Minister, Dr. George Norton, told a news conference, that the 16-year-old has since recovered and ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados CMC – Barbados Monday announced that it will be implementing a system where everyone entering or leaving the island will have to be finger printed. It said the new measure comes into place from April 1. Chief Immigration ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – Guyana says it will raise the border issue it has with Venezuela at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Inter-sessional summit that begins in Belize today. In addition, President David Granger will travel to New York, later this ...