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. ...
The Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) says the issue of reparations for the trans-Atlantic slave trade is a priority for the 15-member regional integration grouping. Addressing the four-day ACCRA Reparations Conference, which entered its second day on Wednesday, Dr Carla Barnett said CARICOM...
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has called for an immediate ceasefire from fighting between Israel and Palestine. In a statement last evening, the 15-member regional integration group expressed “horror and concern at the mounting death toll on the civilian population” in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The war, which...
The Guyanese Government said it will not engage members of a US delegation that will be in the country on a “fact finding mission” into claims that the state is discriminating against citizens of African ancestry. In a statement on Sunday, the government said it would...