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ROSEAU, Dominica CMC – The Roman Catholic Church Friday, said it would await a ruling from Rome following an investigation into allegations that a priest had sexually abused a girl more than two decades ago. Bishop Gabriel Malzire in a ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – The Jamaica Council of Churches (JCC), on Monday, accepted a position paper that disregards same-sex marriage in the country. “God’s perfect design, as expressed in Scripture, is for sexual intimacy to take place between one man ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. CMC – A major think tank here, claims gangs are the “new law” in urban Trinidad and Tobago, saying that recent incidents of intense violence in the twin-island republic have drawn attention to the “rampant gang problem.” In ...

By Desmond Brown Caribbean Correspondent GEORGETOWN, Guyana (IPS) – Climbing up the coconut industry has been anything but easy for Rosamund Benn, who has dedicated the past 32 years of her life working on a 50-acre coconut farm in The ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 jolted several; Caribbean countries including Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana, last Friday night, the Trinidad-based Seismic Unit of the University of the West Indies (UWI) confirmed, last ...

By Desmond Brown Caribbean Correspondent CASTRIES, St. Lucia (IPS) – Malcolm Wallace always knew on which side his bread would be buttered. At the age of 19, he built and operated his own greenhouse on his father’s farm in Dominica, ...

By Jacey Fortin Africa Correspondent ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (IPS) – Not far from the headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in Ethiopia’s capital city of Addis Ababa, a young woman named Bosena, 25, sits on the side ...

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent CMC – A High Court judge has lifted an injunction that allowed a 14-year-old student to continue her education at St. Joseph’s Convent Kingstown (SJCK) until a lawsuit filed by her mother is heard on November 15. ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – The Guyana government said, Monday, it had received the first shipment of 5,000 tons of fertilizer from Venezuela under a revised agreement between the two countries. Agriculture Minister, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, said the agreement would significantly ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – Former judge, diplomat and war hero, Philip Louis Ulric Cross, died last Friday, 10 days after undergoing surgery for an undisclosed illness, relatives confirmed. They said the 96-year-old World War II veteran’s passing was ...