Barbudans will be allowed to return to the devastated island this weekend following government’s lifting of the mandatory evacuation order from midnight tonight. Minister of Information Melford Nicholas made the announcement yesterday at this week’s post-Cabinet media briefing. “The Cabinet has agreed to lift the mandatory evacuation...
FOLLOWING Tuesday's brazen attack on a policewoman and her family in Portmore, St Catherine, the Police High Command yesterday raised the threat level against cops to extreme. In fact, the police believe Tuesday's attack was a reprisal in connection with the fatal shooting of a man...
Shock, outrage and loud demands for justice are reverberating across Guyana after a desperate search for missing 13-year-old Leonard Archibald ended in a grisly find over the weekend. The teen’s decomposed body was found in the Berbice River on Saturday, six days after he was reported...
Hurricane-battered Dominica will get a just over US$19 million payout from the CCRIF SPC – formerly the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility soon. The CCRIF announced that the US$19,294,800 payout will be made under the island’s tropical cyclone policy with 14 days of the hurricane which...
REGIONAL disaster management and relief authorities are predicting that it will cost Dominica several billions of dollars to recover from the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria, which struck the Eastern Caribbean island last week, killing an estimated 20 people and leaving the small island nation...