BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – The Barbados-based Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH) is warning regional countries that they should brace themselves for floods as the drought conditions which have affected the region since late 2014 are expected to subside by the start of the...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Tuesday February 16, 2016 – Come April 1, anyone coming into or leaving Barbados will have to be fingerprinted, the country’s Immigration Department announced yesterday. The new measure takes effect on April 1 this year. And according to Chief Immigration Officer Erine Griffith, it will...
The Bahamas government says young women have always been free to attend school with their hair “in its natural state” as it denied reports that a student had been suspended last week from the C.R. Walker Senior High School due to infraction with the school...
Jamaica has led Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries in how effectively children can use the law to challenge violations of their rights. In the first-ever global study on children’s access to justice undertaken by the London-based Child Rights International network (CRIN) showed that Belgium topped the 179...
THERE is now great uncertainty over the much-anticpated political debates after the ruling People’s National Party (PNP) yesterday indicated that it will not participate in any planned discourse until Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) leader Andrew Holness addresses what the party terms as “disgraceful and direspectful”...