In yesterday’s referendum Ecuadoreans voted in favour of allowing the army to help out the police in fighting organized crime. The poll was called after Ecuador went from being relatively peaceful to having the highest recorded murder rate in Latin America. Voters also backed longer prison terms and allowing extraditing violent criminals to be extradited […]

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Barbados has announced its decision to officially recognise Palestine as a state, becoming the 11th member of CARICOM to take that step. “How can we say we want a two-state solution if we do not recognise Palestine as a State,” Foreign Minister Kerrie Symmonds said in a statement Friday. The island nation’s Minister of Foreign […]

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One twenty-mile stretch of coastline in Angtigua is suddenly looking a whole lot more cared for. There are newly planted trees, the litter-free beaches, the signature tyre waste receptacles, painted ocean blue, and bearing the charge “Adopt-a-Coastline”, a slogan showing the presence of an organization recently created to preserve  the coastal environment, and  see it […]

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Petionville has always been regarded as a prosperous green and leafy suburb of Haiti’s capital of Port au Prince, with large homes safe behind stone walls, but in Haiti’s current state of anarchy nowhere is safe. The community recently voted to buy a metal barricade and install it themselves to try to protect residents from […]

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Richard Drax, the Conservative Party British MP who is perhaps the biggest beneficiary of his ancestors’ profitable careers in Caribbean slavery is in line for a multimillion-pound payout from the Barbados government which is purchasing some of his ancestral lands to build new middle-income housing estates, reports The Guardian, a left wing British newspaper founded […]

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Playing under the floodlights of Times Square in New York City, Nigerian chess master Tunde Onakoya has played chess for 58 consecutive hour–and still going–and has  broken the world record for the longest chess marathon., Reports don’t make it clear whether he has won all his games, but there are no reports of him being […]

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More than 2,500 people were killed or injured in gang violence in Haiti in the first three months of this year, a significant increase from the last three months of last year. Of these  (79% men, 18% women and 3% children), an average of nearly 28 victims per day the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti […]

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Castries, St. Lucia – A project called Unleashing the Blue Economy of the Caribbean (UBEC) has been launched with promises of significant economic benefits. UBEC Project Manager, Shermaine Clauzel, said the project will incorporate the tourism, agriculture, and waste management sectors with an aim toward preservation and sustainable development. “Our island, like others in the […]

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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates – Prime Minister The Hon. Dr. Terrance Drew participated in a signing ceremony of a  historic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between UAE-based K&K Group and Siemens Energy, a global leader in the energy business to initiate the groundbreaking geothermal energy project in the Federation. The signing of this MoU initiates […]

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Basseterre, St. Kitts – The inaugural Sea Cadet Training Camp closed on Friday, April 19, 2024, with a ceremony that brought dozens of proud parents and well-wishers together with members of the St. Kitts and Nevis Defence Force (SKNDF) Coast Guard Unit and senior government officials, to celebrate the achievements of more than 50 young […]

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