The Government is clarifying climate change laws to provide businesses with certainty around their obligations, Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith says. “Ongoing litigation in the High Court, where an applicant has brought civil claims against six major businesses for their greenhouse gas emissions, is creating uncertainty in business confidence and investment that the Government must address. […]

Defence Minister Chris Penk has paid tribute to the contribution businesses supplying the New Zealand Defence Force make to national security and resilience at the Minister of Defence Awards of Excellence to Industry. “This year’s award recipients have delivered high-quality equipment, assets, infrastructure and services that are fundamental to the successful operations of the New […]

Clinical assessments and testing are now well underway at Arrowe Park on the Wirral, for passengers repatriated from the MV Hondius. They include 20 British nationals, alongside one UK resident German national and one Japanese passenger. Two British nationals have returned home on repatriation flights to the USA, which were organised by the USA. Another British national […]

Businesses across the UK are being urged to strengthen their cyber defences, as the government takes action to protect the economy and essential services people rely on every day from fast-evolving cyber threats. As part of a wider push to shore up the UK’s cyber defences, ministers are urging organisations across the economy to boost their resilience by signing up to a Cyber Resilience Pledge. The pledge, launching later […]

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) and Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) will join forces on a new £3 million National Centre for Environmental Horticulture Plant Health that will research and help mitigate existing and emerging threats to our green spaces. Funded by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), it will see […]

The United States did not participate in the International Migration Review Forum and will not support the May 8 “progress” declaration. The United States has persistently objected to the United Nations’ efforts to advocate and facilitate replacement immigration in the United States and across the broader West.  In 2017, President Trump rejected the Global Compact on […]

A dual Canadian American Citizen pleaded guilty today for his role in a human smuggling conspiracy that resulted in the deaths of a family, including two children under the age of three, in the St. Lawrence River. According to court documents, Timothy Oakes, 35, from the Akwesasne Mohawk Indian Territory in Canada, was a key […]

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, May 11, CMC- Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha says the arrival of 89 pregnant heifers is a major step in Guyana’s efforts to reduce dependence on imported dairy products. The heifers, part of a US$30 million investment by Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL), form the first batch for the company’s dairy project and Mustapha said […]

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, May 11, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government says it has dealt adequately with an oil spill that had been detected at the start of this month even as Venezuela complained to the international community  that the spill had caused environmental damage in the Gulf of Paria and along coastal […]

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, May 11, CMC – The Central Water and Sewerage Authority (CWSA) says it will be implementing daytime and nighttime rationing for consumers across a large section of St. Vincent as the drought affecting the country deepens. CWSA said that water distribution will continue in the Grenadines, which has no rivers or streams […]