Caricom finally gets fisheries policy but laws are outdated
Executive Director of the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism, Milton HaughtonThe 15-nation Caribbean Community (Caricom) now has new fisheries policy, but...
Human Rights Watch: Growing number of LGBT homeless in Jamaica due to discrimination
San Juan, Oct 22 (EFE).- Family and community discrimination against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in Jamaica has...
CARICOM reparations movement weakens regional integration, expert says
The Caricom Headquarters in GuyanaSan Juan, Oct 22 (EFE).- The demands of the Caribbean Community, or CARICOM, for slavery reparation...
Caribbean News Desk Radio Prog: CDB pays Haiti’s disaster insurance
The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) will once again ensure that Haiti has insurance coverage to limit the impact of catastrophic...
Rousseff overtakes Neves four days before election, latest poll shows
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and opposition candidate Aecio Neves Rio de Janeiro, Oct 22 (EFE).- Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, who...
New brigade of 83 Cuban health care workers leaves for Liberia, Guinea
Havana, Oct 22 (EFE).- A brigade of 83 Cuban health care workers departed for Liberia and Guinea Conakry to help...
Experts meet in Jamaica to unlock economic growth
Senior government ministers are meeting in Montego Bay, Jamaica, later this week to discuss ways to unlock economic growth in...
The answer to water scarcity may be in the air
Pedro Paulino and his WateAir invention (photo from celuloseonline.com.br)Rio de Janeiro, Oct 22 (EFE).- A Brazilian engineer has designed a...
Federal judge rejects lawsuit favoring gay marriages in Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Oct 22 (EFE).-A U.S. federal judge has rejected a lawsuit filed by several homosexual couples claiming...
Warding off Ebola a matter of economic survival for Caribbean
San Juan, Oct 21 (EFE).- Several Caribbean islands have recently barred entry by people coming from West African countries affected by Ebola...
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