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The victory for same-sex couples in Bermuda who earlier won the right to get married in the British Overseas Territory has been overturned. Parliament has passed the Domestic Partnership Act 2017, which replaces same-sex marriage with…

Some four years after then leader of the opposition in Saint Lucia, Stephenson King, wrote to the governor general, Dame Pearlette Louisy, seeking clarification regarding an oil exploration licence purportedly granted to Colorado oilman…

A plane crash near the Henry E. Rohlsen Airport on Thursday night left all five occupants of the aircraft dead, The Consortium can confirm. Police Commissioner Delroy Richards told The Consortium that the aircraft, a private chartered…

According to the Honduran Supreme Electoral Tribunal’s final count of the ballots in the country’s November 26 presidential election, President Juan Orlando Hernández garnered more votes than any other candidate. However, the Organization…

interCaribbean Airways celebrating 25 years of continuous service has announced new scheduled services from Tortola to five new cities this winter season, making 22 cities served. New services will begin from February 1, 2018, with…

Acting Commissioner of Police Stephen Williams has ordered an investigation into the unauthorized release of a businesswoman who had been in prison awaiting trial on more than 150 fraud charges. Vicky Boodram apparently had the help of a…

Police in Guyana are still investigating a call from a prison inmate who threatened to assassinate President David Granger. Director of Prisons Gladwin Samuels confirmed the inmate from the Lusignan Prison called the emergency 911 number…

Trinidad and Tobago Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi says the executive branch of government will not be getting involved in the latest in a series of controversies involving Chief Justice Ivor Archie, although the situation has prompted High…

The Puerto Rican independence activist Oscar López Rivera ended his visit to Cuba by reiterating that the reality was much more than he had dreamed of. “It has been happier, more intense and much more rewarding than I expected,” he said.…

Former prime minister and incumbent leader of the United National Congress (UNC) opposition party in Trinidad and Tobago, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, has been re-elected political leader by an overwhelming majority. Persad Bissessar had been…

The Sierra Club, Island Green Living Association and the Virgin Island Conservation Society have notified FEMA and the US Army Corps of Engineers that they will sue to prevent large-scale burning of debris from Hurricanes Irma and Maria in…

Not even family gets a pass when it comes to Rihanna clamping down on people trying to sell knock-offs of her popular clothing and shoe brands. Her uncle, Leroy Fitzgerald Brathwaite, was hauled before the courts in Barbados yesterday…

The International Monetary Fund is not bowled over by Barbados’ economic progress or the Government’s plans to fix the island’s spiralling debt and falling international reserves. In fact, it has advised the Freundel Stuart…

A new direct ferry service from Miami to Freeport, Grand Bahama, has been launched by FRS Caribbean. The highspeed craft, San Gwann, which was operating between Miami and Bimini Island, has added the second route that will get passengers…

Imagine relocating the entire population of your country in the face of a colossal hurricane and two months later still not being able to get back home. Now imagine spending several nights in a shelter and taking a stroll the next morning…