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Kingston, Jamaica -- The Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington is Friday morning commending police officers who were involved in Thursday’s capture of wanted man Ryan Brembridge, also known as ‘Little Blacks’. Brembridge, who was on the…

Bridgetown, Barbados (CMC) -- The European Union is has expressed concern about challenges and threats facing the sustainable development of Small Island Developing States (SIDS). In a message to mark World Environment Day on Thursday,…

UNITED NATIONS, (CMC) — St Vincent and the Grenadines and Jamaica have ratified the new Arms Trade Treaty as the Caribbean seeks to play an historic role in helping end the irresponsible, lethal global US$85 billion trade in small arms and…

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada -- Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell has assured the nation that better days are coming because the international community has bought into Grenada’s Home Grown Program. He told a constituency forum last week that the…

OCHO RIOS, Jamaica — The St Ann police were kept busy over the weekend with four murders in the north coast parish. All four murders were committed in communities under the Ocho Rios police command. The first victim, Courtney Edwards, a…

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -- Fifteen-year-old Jamal Brathwaite and his nine-year-old brother Jadel Holder were murdered execution style on Sunday in Morvant, Trinidad, by gunmen who fired one shot to the back of the head of each of the boys;…

St John’s, Antigua (CMC) -- Government interference in the running of the Guyana Cricket Board has forced the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) to scrap the National Stadium at Providence as the venue for the third Test against New Zealand…

Kingston, Jamaica (JIS) -- Acting Public Defender, Matondo Mukulu says that total of 657 of 800 outstanding cases have been resolved by his team, since he assumed office in April this year. Speaking at a recent Jamaica Information Service…

Montego Bay, Jamaica -- An eighteen-year-old student of a Trelawny high school is one of three people arrested by the lottery scam task force Saturday for breaches of the Law Reform (Fraudulent Transaction) (Special Provisions) Act. They…

Kingstown, St Vincent -- A controversial Bill to amend the existing Passport Act was tabled last week in the St Vincent and the Grenadines House of Assembly for debate on Monday, prompting allegations that the government is seeking to rush…

ST ANDREW, Kingston -- After surviving injuries sustained in a hit-and-run in St Andrew, an elderly woman who gave her name as Mariah Marshall is now unable to provide contact information in order to be released from hospital. According to…

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA) -- President Donald Ramotar on Thursday evening called upon the opposition to unconditionally pass the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Bill, to limit the harm already done…

KINGSTON, Jamaica - - In recognition of World Blood Donor Day on Saturday, June 14, the Ministry of Health, through the National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS), will host a ‘Donor Fest Blood Drive and Wellness Fair’ at the Blood…

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, (CMC) – The Trinidad and Tobago police have launched an investigation into the presence of placards bearing racist slogans during a demonstration organised by the Joint Trade Union Movement (JTUM) last weekend.…

Bridgetown, Barbados -- The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) – the region’s tourism development agency charged with leading the Caribbean’s sustainable tourism development – and the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), the regional…