KINGSTON, Jamaican, Observer - AS the country observes March as Endometriosis Month, co-founder of the Better Awareness and Support for Endometriosis (BASE) Foundation, Shauna Fuller-Clarke, is urging employees and school administrators to become more sensitive to and supportive of the approximately...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - A two day police operation at the Kingston Container Terminal has led to the seizure of more than J$10 million worth of marijuana. The operation was carried out on the weekend by the Transnational Crime and Narcotics Division with assistance from the Ports Division of the Ja...

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders meet here next week for their inter-sessional summit with Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves confirming that there is “quite a long” agenda for the two-day meeting. Gonsalves, who is also the chairman of the 15-mem...

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, Tuesday February 25, 2014, CMC – UNAIDS Caribbean said Monday that eight regional countries have finalised specific strategies aimed at strengthening their HIV programmes by making them more responsive to human rights. It said that the representatives from Barbados, ...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Energy sector officials are meeting in Kingston, Jamaica, this week to chart the way forward in energy information gathering and dissemination, management and planning. The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat ...

PHILPOTT Martin, the 26-year-old computer specialist and computer programmer was arrested in Jamaica following a two-year cyber-crime investigation. Martin, who resides in Kingston 8, Jamaica, was held at his home by detectives from the Organised Crime Investigation Division (OCID), headed by Superi...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - THE ripple effects of the recent landmark ruling by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in the case of Jamaican Shanique Myrie vs the Barbados Government should awaken the leaders of Caricom out of their Rip van Winkle-like slumber to honour their commitment to unhindered free i...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - FOR years nationals of the 15-nation Caribbean Community (Caricom) have complained of the discrimination they've experienced at the border controls of each other's countries. This discrimination has ranged in many cases from extensive questioning before being allowed entr...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Regional energy security is among the many issues to be discussed at the second meeting of the ministers of Energy of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), on October 24 and 25. The two-day meeting is scheduled to take place at the Montego Bay Convention ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - In its publication on remittances released last month, the World Bank said Antigua & Barbuda has regained its status as a high income economy, leaving the majority of regional developing states behind. The reversal comes after the island of 89,070 residents finalised an Inte...