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Photo above: North African immigrants near the Italian island of Sicily. Photo credit: Vito Manzari from Martina Franca (TA), Italy. Immigrati Lampedusa/CC-BY-2.0. By Thalif Deen IPS Correspondent UNITED NATIONS, New York (IPS) — As tens of thousands of refugees continue ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana government says it will implement a gun amnesty programme from September 1. In recent months, Guyana law enforcement authorities have had to deal with crimes involving the use of guns, and Minister of Public ...

Photo above: From L-R- Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Greenidge, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Country Representative, Khadija Musa, President David Granger, Chief, Americas Division in the Department of Political Affairs, Martha Doggett, Senior Mediation ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar says she is prepared to deal with any wrongdoer in her administration as the campaign for the September 7 general elections entered its final week. Addressing supporters at a ...

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – The Dominica government has defended its decision not to impose a state of emergency in the country after Tropical Storm Erika killed more than 25 people and left millions of dollars in damages last week. Prime ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The main opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is assuring the David Granger administration that it will provide unqualified support to the government in the border dispute with Venezuela. Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo met with President Granger ...

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC — Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, on Sunday, announced the appointment of Baroness Patricia Scotland as the international coordinator of the Dominica Relief Effort. The Dominica-born Baroness, who will work in parallel with the National Reconstruction Advisory Committee, ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) says more than 600 babies were born to teenage mothers ranging from under 14 to 19 years during the first six months of this year. The GPHC gave no figures ...

Photo above: First Lady, Sandra Granger interacting with some of the cast members of “EMERGED” at the Theatre Guild on Friday evening when she paid a visit to the meet the Production members. Photo credit: GINA. GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA) — First Lady ...

BOSTON, CMC – The police here are investigating several violent incidents across the city in the hours before the start of Caribbean J’ouvert, that led to six people being shot , one fatally. The police report that a 27-year-old man ...