PARAMARIBO, Suriname (CMC) – The National Assembly has approved legislation formally abolishing the death penalty in the Dutch-speaking Caribbean Community (Caricom) country. But the legislators raised the highest prison term limits from 30 to 50 years in what is seen as a compromise to amending the...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) – A High Court judge has sentenced the 42-year-old mother of a secondary school student and her lover to more than 200 years in jail after they were found guilty of killing the child in 2010. The court heard that the body of...
Deputy Leader of the Opposition United Progressive Party (UPP) Harold Lovell said government needs to provide other jobs for LIAT workers who might be severed if the airline’s Board gets its way. The former tourism and civil aviation minister said this could be done through creating...
Police are investigating a shooting incident in Bird Rock that has left one man hospitalised. According to Public Relations Officer for the Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force, Inspector Lyndon David, just after midnight on Thursday, the victim was in a vehicle when he was...
Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 05, 2015 (SKNIS): Officers of the Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force (RSCNPF) had a familiarization meeting with Prime Minister Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris in his capacity as Minister of National Security, on Wednesday. During the meeting held at the...