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GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – Security has been beefed up around two state-owned media agencies after bomb threats had been received over the past two days. The Government Information Agency (GINA) said staff members at its office as well as the ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados CMC – A study undertaken by the Human Rights institute at Georgetown University Law Center in the United States, has found that children of Haitian nationals born in the Dominican Republic are increasing being barred from attending school ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – A recent survey commissioned by the Office of the Children’s Registry (OCR) and UNICEF, has revealed that only one in 10 Jamaicans report cases of child abuse despite having knowledge of the incident. The survey entitled ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – As the debate rages over whether marijuana should be decriminalized, the University of the West Indies, Mona campus, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with a large US-based company to facilitate research into the medicinal ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. CMC – The World Bank has voiced concern about what it described as the exorbitant cost of sending remittances to the Caribbean and other places, saying that forcing migrant workers to pay as much as US$50 to send ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. CMC – The World Bank says remittances to the Caribbean are expected to remain robust this year, despite increased deportations of migrant workers. The Washington-based financial institution said that migrants from developing countries, including the Caribbean, are expected to ...

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent CMC – St. Vincent and the Grenadines has become the latest Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country to warn nationals about the low level of water at its reservoirs and the need to implement “strict water conservation measures”. St. ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – The police are investigating the circumstances surrounding a case of suspected murder-suicide involving a Police Constable and his wife. The police report that late Saturday, Constable Davian Thompson, 31, went to his home at the Oakland ...

UNITED NATIONS CMC – No Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country has yet ratified an agreement that went into effect Monday, allowing children the right to complain directly to the United Nations about alleged violations of their rights. UN child rights experts ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – Trinidad and Tobago police are investigating the circumstances that led a father to murder his two children before killing himself in Matura, east of here, on Sunday. They said Barry Karamath committed the crime ...