Last Updated on Thursday, 23 October 2014, 22:32 by GxMedia Four persons have been arrested and two hand guns and ammunition seized, as police continued their probe into last Sunday’s shooting death of an electrical engineer outside his Prashad Nagar home. Investigators said that a suspect who was arrested on Wednesday in Sophia has led them to the arrest of ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 23 October 2014, 22:16 by GxMedia In southern Guyana near the border with Brazil, lightning shocked two school-age children and damaged a section of the house in which they are living. The two members of the Paulino family were rushed from their residence at St. Ignatius to the nearby Lethem Public Hospital. Their conditions were not ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 23 October 2014, 22:07 by GxMedia As the Government of Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit gets ready to rename the Melville Hall airport in Dominica next week Monday after late Prime Ministers Roosvelt Douglas and Pierre Charles, the Douglas family is opposed to the move. They claim that they were not consulted and it is disrespect to ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 23 October 2014, 22:02 by GxMedia In Guyana where a no-confidence motion is hanging over the President Donald Ramotar administration, it is unclear when the National Assembly will meet again. Now that the two-month parliamentary recess is over, sectoral and select committees are continuing their work but the House is yet to meet. This, despite calls ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 23 October 2014, 21:57 by GxMedia The 15-nation Caribbean Community (Caricom) now has new fisheries policy, but the fishery laws of most member states are outdated. After several years of drafting and negotiations, the Common Fisheries Policy was adopted earlier this month at the Caribbean Week of Agriculture 2014 held in Suriname. Executive Director of the ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 23 October 2014, 21:52 by GxMedia San Juan, Oct 22 (EFE).- Family and community discrimination against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in Jamaica has boosted the number of LGBT people living on the streets, according to New York-based Human Rights Watch. In its report “Not Safe at Home,” uploaded Tuesday to HRW’s Web site, ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 23 October 2014, 21:50 by GxMedia San Juan, Oct 22 (EFE).- The demands of the Caribbean Community, or CARICOM, for slavery reparation from Europe “do not strengthen the integration process” because they divert attention from priority issues, an expert told Efe on Wednesday. Ivan Ogando Lora, director of the Dominican campus of the Latin American College ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 23 October 2014, 21:41 by GxMedia The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) will once again ensure that Haiti has insurance coverage to limit the impact of catastrophic hurricanes and or earthquakes. The Barbados-based CDB says it is is providing a grant of USD2.5 million dollars to cover Haiti’s premium to the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 22 October 2014, 21:10 by GxMedia Rio de Janeiro, Oct 22 (EFE).- Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, who is running for reelection, is three percentage points ahead of opposition candidate Aecio Neves in the latest voter intention poll conducted in the week before the runoff and released Wednesday.The head of state and candidate of the ruling Workers ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 22 October 2014, 21:05 by GxMedia Havana, Oct 22 (EFE).- A brigade of 83 Cuban health care workers departed for Liberia and Guinea Conakry to help in the fight to contain the Ebola virus as part of Havana’s contribution to the West African countries most affected by the epidemic, state-run media reported Wednesday.This is the second ...