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Two days after the Electoral and Boundaries Commission (EBC) stoutly defended the integrity of the electoral process and openly dismissed allegations of discrepancies on the preliminary voters’ list of just over 256,990 people,…

While Chikungunya and Zika which swept the region in 2014 and 2016 are not expected back anytime soon, the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is warning residents to “gear-up for the possibility of a major outbreak of dengue fever in…

During a podcast interview last week by journalist Freddy Gray for Britain’s Spectator magazine, Sven Hughes, a former employee of the SCL Group/Cambridge Analytica, discussed SCL’s work in manipulating election outcomes in the Caribbean in…

A 34-year-old politician was one of three men jointly charged with conspiracy to import and trafficking cannabis, after a compressed quantity of the illegal drug was found inside a barrel at the Maurice Bishop International Airport last…

Two employees of an aviation services company and two security guards are among five people charged in what is reported to be the single largest cocaine bust at the Piarco International Airport in Trinidad and Tobago. Krystel Birot, 24,…

In an apparent resumption of the so-called dollar diplomacy pursued by both China and Taiwan in recent years, the Dominican Republic announced on Tuesday it had severed ties with Taiwan and established diplomatic relations with China, after…

Guyana and Suriname will participate in the 45th session of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) foreign ministers meeting in Dhaka, Bangladesh on May 5-6, 2018. Foreign minister Carl Greenidge will travel to Bangladesh to…

Barbadians will go to the polls to elect a new government on May 24. Prime Minister Freundel Stuart revealed the date in a brief statement released by the Government Information Service (GIS) on Thursday morning. Read more:…

FirstCaribbean International Bank Limited (FCIB) has withdrawn its recent public offering in the United States and is no longer pursuing a listing of its shares on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Read more: …

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson announced on Thursday an expansion of the UK’s overseas network, with the opening of nine new diplomatic posts across the Commonwealth. Three of these nine posts will be in the Eastern Caribbean,…

On one side of courtroom POS 09 sat a small group of pastors dressed in suits and expressions that were just as stiff. On the other were supporters of sexual and gender minorities’ rights, at least one of them sporting a T-shirt that…

Samuel George Mayers, the son of Saint Lucia’s high commissioner to London, Guy Mayers, has been arrested in Hillsborough County, Florida, on seven drug-related charges, including possession of cocaine, possession of a controlled substance,…

As Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced hearings before the US Congress last week, digital rights advocates around the world highlighted the social media platform’s ongoing failure over many years to enforce its own terms of use and community…

Asot Michael, the minister of investment and trade of Antigua and Barbuda, has announced that he is taking legal action against two convicted criminals for defamation committed against him on their individual and collective blog sites on…

British Prime Minister Theresa May met representatives from 12 Caribbean Commonwealth states on Tuesday. Those attending included senior representatives from Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana,…