PORT OF SPAIN – The Trinidad and Tobago Government is making moves to divorce itself from the decades-old practice of authorizing child marriages. Yesterday, lawmakers began debate on the Miscellaneous Provisions Marriage Bill 2016 that seeks to raise the age of marriage to 18. It will...
[caption id="attachment_16100" align="alignright" width="300"] Guyana’s Public Health Minister, Volda Lawrence[/caption] GEORGETOWN, Guyana, (CMC) – The Guyana government says it has sent a medical team to three Amerindian areas in Region Nine amid reports of an outbreak of gastroenteritis. Public Health Minister Volda Lawrence said the medical team...
The rape and carnal abuse case involving Moravian clergyman Rev Rupert Clarke has taken on an alarming new twist, including claims by the family of the girl he is accused of abusing that they were being harassed by people in their community to keep silent. Checks...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) — The Caribbean Community (Caricom) Council of Ministers has ended a two-day meeting here Tuesday saying it was appreciative of the Caribbean’s good working relationship with past US administrations and was looking forward to working with the Donald Trump administration. The Council, the...
[caption id="attachment_3163" align="alignleft" width="300"] Antigua & Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne[/caption] Prime Minister Gaston Browne has come out in defense of Ambassador Casroy James arguing that additional information that James provided indicates that his relationship with persons allegedly linked to Odebrecht was legitimate. In December 2016 a...