Barbadians will go to the polls to elect a new government on May 24. Prime Minister Freundel Stuart revealed the date in a brief statement released by the Government Information Service (GIS) this morning. He also said Nomination Day would be May 7, and that he had...
The Government of Antigua has written to the US State Department, through its Embassy in Washington, pointing out glaring misrepresentations in the Department's 2017 Human Rights Report as it relates to Antigua and Barbuda. “While it is not normal to release the content of its diplomatic...
UNITED NATIONS, United States (CMC) — The United Nations says its trained law enforcement units have logged record high cocaine seizures at seaports in Latin American and the Caribbean. On Wednesday, the UN said the units intercepted huge shipments of the illegal drugs being trafficked through...
BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CMC) — The executive director of the Trinidad-based Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), Dr James Hosepdales, is urging regional countries to “proceed with an abundance of caution” when it come to the decriminalisation of marijuana. Hospedales, who spoke on a government radio programme...
KINGSTON, Jamaica — France-based media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has ranked Jamaica sixth on its 2018 World Press Freedom Index, a move two places up from the country's 2017 ranking. The index, which was released yesterday, ranks 180 countries according to the level of freedom...