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WASHINGTON, DC March 8, 2017 (CMC) – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) today, said women in the Caribbean have made significant strides on the board of directors of private companies, as it highlighted the achievement made in gender equality in ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, March 8, 2017 (CMC) – The Guyana government has brushed aside allegations of political interference in the police investigations into a controversial multi-million dollar land deal, as more former government ministers and officials were being questioned by the ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, March 8, 2017 (CMC) – Former president, Bharrat Jagdeo, was among several high-profile members of the main opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) arrested, yesterday, as police continued their probe into the acquisition of land by several former ministers ...

By Thalif Deen IPS Contributing Writer UNITED NATIONS, New York March 8, 2017 (IPS) — The United Nations has frequently been accused of vociferously preaching gender empowerment and women’s rights to the outside world — but failing miserably to practice ...

By IPS World Desk ROME/GENEVA, March 8, 2017 (IPS) — “The women’s movement has brought about tremendous change but we must also recognise that progress has been slow and extremely uneven and that it also brought its own challenges,” warned ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, March 8, 2017 (CMC) – The Guyana-based Caribbean Community (CARICOM) today, said while there have been significant strides in gender equality in the region, there’s still a need for much more to be done. In a message marking ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, March 6, 2017 (CMC) – The Trinidad and Tobago government said, today, it would pay an estimated TT$2.5 billion (One TT dollar =US$0.16 cents) in arrears to public servants at the end of March, ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan, March 6, 2017 (CMC) – President Tsai Ing-wen is to visit the Caribbean later this year, amid concerns that the country’s relations with some Caribbean allies have become “unstable”, Foreign Minister David Lee said, today. Taiwan has relations ...

By Lakshmi Puri IPS Guest Writer UNITED NATIONS, New York March 6, 2017 (IPS) — Yayi Bayam Diouf became the first woman to fish in her small rural fishing village in Senegal despite initially being told by the men in ...

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 ...