72 Remote Controlled Howitzers (RCH 155) will be procured under a nearly £1 billion contract, which includes initial training and in-service support, awarded by the Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation (OCCAR) on behalf of the British Army to ARTEC GmbH, a joint venture between KNDS and Rheinmetall. The weapon systems – the barrel, breech, recoil system and trunnions – will be manufactured at Rheinmetall’s large-calibre production […]

Thousands more children and young people will benefit from stable, loving homes as the government launches a new £12.4 million Fostering Innovation Fund to make foster care more accessible and inclusive across England. The Fund will help fostering around modern lifestyles and household structures, by updating models of foster care, which set out how care should be […]

Today, U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon announced a new $144 million investment by the Trump Administration to help states expand proven interventions that support students with disabilities. These funds will be awarded this year for state and local agencies to use for Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) programs. In an additional effort to […]

The United States continues to seek meaningful reforms to Cuba’s communist system, which has only served to enrich the elites and condemn the Cuban people to poverty. As U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said, the United States has also made numerous private offers to the Cuban regime to provide generous assistance to the […]

Today, the U.S. Department of State announced a new initiative with SC Johnson and the Global Fund to deploy the Guardian, a first-of-its-kind American innovation designed to save lives by reducing the burden of malaria. The Department will utilize the Global Fund to support the procurement and distribution of approximately 30 million Guardian spatial repellents […]

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, May 13, CMC – Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says Trinidad and Tobago will not recognise Dr. Carla Barnett as the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General after August when her first five year term ends, even as regional countries maintained that she had been reappointed to the position for another five years. […]

HAMILTON, Bermuda, May 13, CMC –  National Security, Michael Weeks, says Bermuda cannot address the issue of violence if it does not take into  account the mental and emotional strain “men are carrying” as the government launch a new initiative to deal with the situation. The “Healing Starts Here,”  is the  third campaign under the ”Stop […]

PARAMARIBO,  Suriname, May 13, CMC- Six  medical  practitioners are urging the media here to “not merely act as a conduit” but ensure that the members of the population are fully informed about the HIV/AIDS situation in Suriname. In a letter, the doctors under the grouping “The Surinamese HIV treatment providers,”  said that they were forced […]

ROSEAU, Dominica, May 13, CMC –  Police say the St. Kitts and Nevis  national gunned down here last weekend was not part of  any regional witness protection or security arrangement. “At this stage, preliminary investigations do not suggest any connection between the deceased’s death and any criminal matter or court proceeding in which he may […]

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, May 13, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government Wednesday said  that there is  no policy requiring the Ministry of Energy to issue public statements on small oil spills, as Port of Spain defended its handling of an offshore oil spill that became public only after Venezuela issued a statement over […]