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CASTRIES, St. Lucia CMC – Eugene St. Romain, who spent the last 10 years in prison awaiting trial on the rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl, has been released after a Canada-based charitable foundation raised the EC$60,000 (One EC ...

By Fabiana Frayssinet Brazil Correspondent  RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (IPS) – “The rivalry between our countries is over: if the pope is Argentine then God is Brazilian,” Francis joked when journalists asked him why he was so beloved in this ...

By Thalif Deen UN Correspondent UNITED NATIONS, New York (IPS) – The growing political rift between the United States and Russia triggered by the granting of temporary asylum to U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden, who is now holed up in Moscow, ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Change Facilitation Team says it is satisfied at the response by Guyanese nationals at the national consultations on a five-year strategic plan for the regional integration movement. The Guyana-based CARICOM Secretariat said ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. CMC – The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) says many Caribbean countries are using detention centres are a means of controlling illegal migration and persons fleeing persecution, conflict and other forms of violence. In a statement, the UNCHR ...

NEW DELHI, India CMC – Cricket may soon not be the only connection Indians have with the Caribbean, according to reports here. The Times of India in a report on Sunday said St. Kitts and Nevis, Dominica, and Antigua and ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC), Monday, said that overall performance at the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) has reached the 90 percent mark for the first time in six years. It said this year, 90.15 percent ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. CMC – A major think tank, here, has accused the United States of hypocrisy in its sugar policy towards the Caribbean. The Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) said while Washington pushes economic openness for other nations, including the ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) finance ministers, who met in Trinidad and Tobago last week, have unanimously agreed that the level of integration and inter-relatedness among their economies warrants a regional solution to the current economic difficulties which ...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia CMC – The St. Lucia government has launched a campaign aimed at dealing with the issue of sexual abuse among children. The Ministry of Health, Wellness, Human Services and Gender Relations in collaboration with UNICEF, has unveiled ...