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Photo above: British actor and U.N. Women Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson (left) speaking at the United Nations in September 2014. Photo credit: UN Photo/Mark Garten. By Lyndal Rowlands IPS Correspondent UNITED NATIONS, New York (IPS) – Two hundred million fewer ...

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Last Friday, Dominica became the fourth Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country to replace the London-based Privy Council as their final court of appeal, replacing it with the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ). In a ceremony lasting ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Police are searching for thieves who stole a quantity of cash and household appliances as the Gender, Youth and Child Development Minister, Clifton De Coteau, slept at his brothers over the weekend. Police said ...

By Lisa Vives IPS Correspondent NEW YORK, New York (IPS) – As billions pour into Mozambique from foreign investors scooping up fields of coal and natural gas, the signs of newfound wealth are impossible to miss. Expensive European-style bars and ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) says it is now revising its “Housing Sector Policy and Strategy”, so as to better assist regional countries deal with their housing problems, particularly for low and lower middle-income segments ...

Photo above: Group photo at the high-level international meeting on Women in Power held Feb. 27-28 in Santiago, Chile, which analysed the human rights of women, as part of the major events held worldwide 20 years after the World Conference on ...

Photo above: U.N. Women Deputy Executive Director Lakshmi Puri at the high-level international event “Women in power and decision-making: Building a different world”, held Feb. 27-28 in Santiago, Chile. Photo credit: Marianela Jarroud/IPS. By Marianela Jarroud IPS Latin America Correspondent SANTIAGO, ...

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – The Independent Commission to Support Investigations into Murders of Journalists (CIAPEAJ), Tuesday, condemned the murder of Oriel Jean, the former security chief of ex-President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who was shot and killed here on Monday. ...

DENVER, Colorado, CMC – A communications and marketing firm here says it is ready to provide services to the “newly-minted” Jamaican cannabis market. Cannabis Global Initiative (CGI) says it is now offering a “full suite of services” to assist companies ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A Magistrate has sent the husband of slain television journalist Marcia Henville for psychiatric testing after he appeared in court Monday charged with her murder. Sheldon Henville, 40, appeared in the Tunapuna Court, east ...