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(ZIZ News) – On Monday, UNDP Barbados and the OECS and the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis partnered to host a National Dialogue on Sustainable Human Development and the Citizen Security Agenda. Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of…

(ZIZ News) – The National Carnival Committee is being praised for its work in helping to further develop the calypso artform in St. Kitts and Nevis. This follows the successful completion of the first development seminar for calypsonians,…

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Centre for Investigations of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA) has commenced a probe into an apparent rape video posted to Facebook yesterday. The user who posted the video has come under…

(Nation News) Scores of curious onlookers continue to gather at the doors of the Wildey Gymnasium as family and friends pay their last respects to Shakira and Shameka Shepherd and Wavenie Johnson. The three young women were among four who…

(Caribbean360) Against the backdrop of suspicions that an explosive device brought down a Russian airliner over Egypt on October 31, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee has voiced concerns that flights from Puerto Rico to…

(BBC) The mayor of Concepcion, an Argentine town in northern Tucuman province, says he is trapped in the town hall. Mayor Roberto Sanchez said the building was surrounded on Monday night by demonstrators who burned tyres. Mr Sanchez says…

(BBC) Some 11 million children are at risk from hunger, disease and water shortages in east and southern Africa because of the strengthening El Nino weather phenomenon, the UN children's charity has said. It has caused the worst drought in…

(BBC) US prosecutors have charged three men in connection with the largest cyber-attack in US history. Details of 100 million people were accessed by cyberthieves between 2012 and the summer of 2015. At a press conference on Tuesday, US…

Since 2008, the two sides have created peaceful and stable conditions in the Taiwan Strait, winning widespread approval and support from the people of both sides, as well as from the international community. This is an important milestone…

(Antigua Observer) The U.S. Coast Guard on Saturday, suspended its search for a passenger who fell off the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Oasis of the Seas. According to cruise ship workers, early Friday Bernardo Albaz, 25, jumped from the…

(Caribbean360) Bridgetown, Barbados – Barbados is the latest Caribbean country to be hit with a travel advisory because of crime. In a security message for American citizens, the Embassy based in Bridgetown today advised of “a recent surge…

The head of Indonesia's anti-drugs agency has proposed building a prison island guarded by crocodiles to house death-row drug convicts. Budi Waseso said crocodiles often made better guards than humans because they could not be bribed. He…

(BBC) A Jordanian policeman has opened fire at a police training centre outside Amman, killing two Americans, a South African and a Jordanian, officials say. The Jordanian embassy in Washington said the assailant wounded five others,…

(BBC) Tests are to take place to determine why the ground opened up in a Mississippi city, swallowing 12 cars in a restaurant car park. The large gash, some 400ft (120m) long and 35ft (11m) wide, opened up late on Saturday in Meridian,…

(ZIZ News) -- Searches conducted by members of the security forces, on Saturday, have resulted in nearly half million dollars worth of illegal drugs being seized and the arrest of four individuals. A release from the Public Relations…