PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – Police have detained for questioning, a 50-year-old martial arts instructor, after three students alleged they had been sodomised by him during training sessions at two locations, earlier this year. Police said the un-named instructor ...
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By Anika Kentish CMC Caribbean Correspondent ST JOHN’S, Antigua CMC – The second Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Conference on Reparations began here, last Sunday night, with reparations activists joining political leaders in calling for justice for a region that is still ...
Read More »Guyana’s National Mental Health Strategy To Be Launched In 2015
GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – The Ministry of Health is preparing to launch a strategy to deal with mental health with the aim of reducing the country’s suicide rate. Health Minister, Dr. Bheri Ramsaran, said, with Guyana being described as the ...
Read More »Antigua Cleans Up After Tropical Storm Gonzalo
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua CMC – Prime Minister Gaston Browne has called on residents to engage in a clean-up exercise, following the passage of Tropical Storm Gonzalo on Monday. The storm, which was expected to become a hurricane on Tuesday, was ...
Read More »Kaiteur News Publisher And Wife On Tax Evasion Charges
GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – The publisher of the Kaieteur News newspaper, Glenn Lall, and his wife, Bhena, are due to return to court on November 24 on multiple tax evasion charges. The charges are in connection with the importation of ...
Read More »Former St. Vincent High Court Registrar Fined EC$10,000 For Theft, Abuse Of Authority
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent CMC – Former Registrar of the High Court, Vanessa Tamara Gibson-Marks, was fined EC$10,500 (One EC dollar =US$0.37 cents) Tuesday, on charges of theft and abuse of authority charges. Gibson-Marks, last week, pleaded guilty to a charge ...
Read More »Caribbean National Killed During Miami Carnival
MIAMI, Florida CMC – Police say that a 54-year-old woman from St. Vincent and the Grenadines, died after being hit by a vehicle providing refreshments to masqueraders in the Miami Broward One Carnival. Jacqueline Annette Martin, who lived in Southern ...
Read More »T&T Government Confirms Nationals Fighting For ISIS
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government has confirmed that “several nationals’ are fighting alongside supporters of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and is considering ways of dealing with those nationals. Over the ...
Read More »Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Governor Issues Warning To ECCU Member States
Photo above is of Sir Dwight Venner. BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC – Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB), Sir Dwight Venner, says while the performance of the economy of St. Kitts and Nevis since 2013 has been “very encouraging”, ...
Read More »Son Killed While Attending Wake For Mother In T&T
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago police were, on Monday, continuing their search for the killer of 30-year-old Joseph Nero, who was gunned down on Sunday night while attending a wake for his mother. Police said that ...
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