Anew report is warning that several Caribbean countries including Jamaica without shoreline defences could permanently lose five per cent or more of their cities to sea level rises by the end of the century. “Without shoreline defenses, under a worst-case warming scenario by the end...
The Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, has accepted an invitation from Ban Ki-moon, 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations and Chair of the Board of the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA)and Professor Patrick Verkooijen, CEO of GCA to become a member of the Advisory...
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General, Dr Carla Barnett, is calling on regional countries to invest in preventing violence against women and girls and the empowerment of vulnerable groups through access to education and quality healthcare services. In a statement, marking the launch of the CARICOM...
As calls mount for a resumption of the death penalty in Jamaica for convicted criminals, Prime Minister Andrew Holness says his view on the penalty for murder has evolved, given the barbarity of the acts of criminals who, he said, "have no heart". Holness, speaking in...
An autopsy has been performed and the results completed in relation to a 75-year-old American woman who died during a boating incident in The Bahamas on Tuesday involving the Blue Lagoon vessel. The elderly woman was a cruise passenger who was visiting from Colorado. ...