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KINGSTON, Jamaica — Education Minister Ronald Thwaites says that violent crime has impacted the education sector in a pronounced way. “Society must decide resolutely that it will protect children from harm wherever they are and to create a…

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller said the Government, through the Bureau of Women’s Affairs and with support from UN Women, has crafted a draft National Strategic Action Plan to Eliminate Gender-Based Violence in…

ST JOHN’S, Antigua -- For the second time in less than three months, the government of Antigua and Barbuda has attempted to clarify the relationship between its citizenship by investment programme (CIP) and a real estate development in the…

ST ANN, Jamaica — While family members are theorising that a father and son found dead at their home in Mount Zion, St Ann were poisoned, after consuming a meal which included ackee on Monday, the police are awaiting a post-mortem to…

SANTO DOMINIGO, Dominican Republic (CMC) - The Dominican Republic says it is closing, temporarily, five of its consulates in Haiti due to security concerns in the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country. A spokesman for the…

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Noted attorney and senior member of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Harold Brady was today charged with fraud in relation to the sale of a property. He was questioned by members of the Fraud Squad. Police sources…

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Two women, ages 44 and 45, were on Wednesday shot dead less than six hours apart in the Red Hills Road area of Kingston, in what the police say stemmed from an ongoing feud in the volatile “100 Lane” community. In the…

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – The Barbados Government has defended allegations that the island does not welcome citizens from other Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries insisting that it had deported a “very small percentage” of people.…

(CMC)-- THE farming community of Newlands, St Thomas, was yesterday rocked to its core following the macabre murder of a 14-year-old girl by criminals who hacked the teenager to death and then dumped her mutilated body metres from her…

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA) -- Guyana’s allocation from the 11th European Development Fund (EDF) will amount to 34 million euros (US$38 million) until 2020 and will focus on climate change adaptation, disaster reduction and sustainable…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (HCNN) -- Oriel Jean, the former security chief of ex-president Jean-Bertrand Aristide and a key witness in murder allegations against him, was assassinated in Haiti on Monday afternoon. Jean had constantly been the…

ST THOMAS, Jamaica – The body of a 14-year-old girl was found this morning with several chop wounds in the Newlands Housing Scheme of St Thomas. Reports are that at about 4:30 am relatives found the child's body a few metres from her…

ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC) – Dominica is hoping that its decision to join the Trinidad and Tobago-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Friday will lead to other Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries following suit. Attorney General Levi…

CASTRIES, St Lucia (CMC) – Four men, including three from India will re-appear in court on March 11 on charges of human trafficking in St Lucia. Police said that the four men, including a national from Bangladesh, were arrested and charged…

TRELAWNY, Jamaica — The four men, three Dominica Republic nationals and a Spanish, who lost their lives in a motor vehicle collision early this morning along the Braco main road in Trelawny, were employees of a St Ann hotel. The identities…