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By Suresh Babu IPS Contributing Writer WASHINGTON DC, May 5, 2017 (IPS) — The emerging drought-induced humanitarian crisis—prevailing in countries from Niger in West Africa to Somalia in East Africa—and conflict-driven famine conditions in South Sudan, Somalia, and Northeast Nigeria, ...

ROSEAU, Dominica, May 1, 2017 (CMC) – A High Court judge has said that Opposition Leader, Lennox Linton, “not only reported or repeated” allegations made against Dominica government ministers, but “he adopted and embellished what was alleged”. Last week High ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, May 1, 2017 (CMC). – The police have tightened security in sections of West Kingston, following Sunday’s shooting of Leighton “Livity” Coke, the brother of jailed West Kingston former drug lord, Christopher “Dudus’ Coke. The police said that ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. May 1, 2017 (CMC) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says, fears by Caribbean countries that the opening up of United States-Cuba tourism could seriously impact the sector in the region, “may be misplaced”. In a Working Paper ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, May 1, 2017 (CMC) – Guyana’s President, David Granger, met with Queen Elizabeth II, last Thursday, at Windsor Castle, in a private meeting, during which he said discussions centered around the Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy (QCC), a network of ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, May 1, 2017 (CMC) – The Guyana government says it is “deeply concerned” at what it considers “to be a deeply flawed and undated report”, on the country’s ranking on the World Press Freedom Index by Reporters Without ...

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts-Nevis, May 1, 2017 (CMC) – Prime Minister, Dr. Timothy Harris, has called for an end to gun violence, and appealed to members of the prison service to put an end also to vengeance. Addressing the inaugural Prison’s ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, May 1, 2017 (CMC) – Nizam Mohammed, the son of a former police commissioner, was shot and killed, today, at his home in D’Abadie, east of here, police said. They said that Mohammed, the ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, April 26, 2017 (CMC) – The Jamaica government says preliminary estimates for damages, caused by rain over the past few days, could reach at least half a billion dollars. Local Government and Community Development Minister, Desmond McKenzie, said ...

By Jewel Fraser IPS Contributing Writer PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago April 26, 2017 (IPS) — As two environmental activist groups in Trinidad and Tobago, powered by young volunteers, prepare to ramp up their climate change and sustainability activism, ...