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Kingston, Jamaica -- Starting next month disabled youth across five parishes will receive career and personal development training and be exposed to employment opportunities under an empowerment programme being undertaken by the National…

Port-au-Prince, Haiti (AFP) -- Haitian authorities announced sanitary border controls Thursday to prevent Ebola cases from entering and spreading in the desperately poor country already in the grips of a deadly cholera epidemic. The…

Port of Spain, Trinidad (Trinidad Express) -- A 17-year-old Point Fortin student charged with having sexual intercourse with a 12-year-old girl was denied bail when he appeared in court Tuesday. The boy, a vocational student, appeared…

Kingston, Jamaica -- With reports of a shortage of Panadol -- the brand of tablet recommended for treatment of the symptoms of Chigungunya – the Health Ministry is assuring the public that there are several other brands of paracetamol…

Port of Spain, Trinidad (CMC) -- Trinidad and Tobago National Security Minister Gary Griffith has extended an invitation to Jamaica’s Foreign Affairs Minister AJ Nicholson to visit Port of Spain for talks on immigration issues between the…

Roseau, Dominica -- Leader of the opposition United Workers Party (UWP), Lennox Linton, has accused Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit and the Dominica Labour Party (DLP) of using state resources for vote buying in their political…

Georgetown, Guyana (GINA) -- A public-private partnership is underway in Guyana that will see the creation of 400 to 500 jobs and will take the country a step further on the green pathway. The Institute of Applied Science and Technology…

Paramaribo, Suriname -- The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) nation of Suriname says the focus of agriculture in the 15-member body at this time should be food security rather than marijuana cultivation. CARICOM has set up a commission to…

Georgetown, Guyana (GINA) -- Guyana has a mass preparedness campaign on-stream as the Ebola virus continues to cause worldwide uproar. This is according to Dr Johanna Cole, Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation’s (GPHC) internal…

Kingston, Jamaica -- A woman was Tuesday morning stabbed to death during a dispute with her boyfriend at their Montego Bay St James home. The boyfriend was hospitalised after sustaining stab wounds as well. Reports reaching OBSERVER…

Kingston, Jamaica -- A man died after sustaining injuries in a motor vehicle collision along the Runaway Bay main road in St Ann last night. It is reported that about 7:50 pm, 27-year-old Thereon Powell was driving a Toyota Corolla…

Port Au Prince, Haiti (CMC) -- Former Haiti president Jean Bertrand Aristide is due to appear in court Friday after the judge investigating alleged corruption charges against him issued an extraction order for his appearance. The order of…

Georgetown, Guyana -- The oil and gas rich Republic of Azerbaijan's ambassador to Guyana, Elnur Sultanov, on Wednesday presented his credentials to President Donald Ramotar in Georgetown. Sultanov became Azerbaijan's first ambassador to…

Port of Spain, Trinidad -- The National Carnival Commission (NCC) is contemplating postponing Carnival celebrations in 2015 due to fears associated with the Ebola virus that has claimed the lives of thousands of people mainly in West…

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Criminals have again struck in the community of August Town. Police report that a man believed to be an influential member of the community was shot dead at his home in the area. The lawmen said the killing comes two…