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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: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) meets with Muhammadu Buhari, President of Nigeria. UN Photo/Evan Schneider. By Tharanga Yakupitiyage IPS Correspondent UNITED NATIONS, (IPS) – With over 1.5 million displaced, 800,000 of whom are children, and continuously escalating violence in northeastern ...

Photo above: Women sport their national pride at the annual Somaliland Independence Day celebration on May 18 in Hargeisa. Advocates argue that a political quota would give women a greater say in their country’s policy-making. Credit: Katie Riordan/IPS. HARGEISA, (IPS) – ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A two-day meeting aimed at introducing a new regime for safe seafood for local and international consumption has ended here with delegates acknowledging that they were at the very early stages of introducing this new policy. ...

Photo above: Costa Rica’s National Stadium, donated by China as a gift for the reestablishment of bilateral ties in 2007, and built in 2009-2010 by a Chinese company with Chinese labour. Photo credit: Diego Arguedas Ortiz/IPS. By Diego Arguedas Ortiz IPS ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – Opposition Leader, Dr. Keith Rowley, says, he is prepared to go to jail rather than comply with a request from the Integrity Commission, that he submit documents, within 14 days, relating to a matter ...

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti CMC — Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Irwin LaRoque, last Sunday, toured the exhibition booths at Grand Market at the Caribbean Festival of the Arts (CARIFESTA), as the French-speaking Caribbean nation pulled out all ...