GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Chronicle - FOR the second consecutive year, a student from the Essequibo Coast in Region 2(Pomeroon/Supenaam) has topped the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) Examinations, this time with a regional record of twenty subjects. Sixteen-year-old Zimeena Rasheed of ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Gleaner - Jamaica has been seeking to capitalise on the buzz being created by its athletes in Russia with the hosting of what it has dubbed Jamaica House Moscow. The initiative follows a similar effort mounted at the 2012 Olympics in London and seeks to boost tourist arrivals from...

Moscow, Russia: Bob Marley hits blaring throughout the Luzhniki Stadium; Russians walking around in the black, green, and gold of the Jamaican flag; every Jamaican in Moscow an instant hit, the centre of attention. These are the inroads that Jamaica's early three-medal performance at the IAAF Wo...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former president of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) Austin “Jack Warner” has sent pre-action protocol letters to the football organisation as well as former Barbados chief justice, Sir David S...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, Express - “I wanted to show people what Jehue ‘Young Prince’ Gordon could do.” The Trinidad and Tobago athlete realised his goal at the Luzhniki Stadium, here in Moscow, Russia, yesterday. He was the class of the field in the opening IAAF W...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, Guardian - The forced departure of athletes Kelly-Ann Baptiste and Semoy Hackett from the Trinidad and Tobago team camp at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow should stand as a moment for introspection and careful reconsideration of the practices and methodolog...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves is questioning on what grounds the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) or even the Commonwealth can intervene in the political situation in St. Kitts-Nevis. Opposition legislators have accused regional gov...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – The St. Lucia government Tuesday described as “false” some of the questions being raised by newly elected leader of the main opposition United Workers Party (UWP), Allen Chastanet regarding St. Lucia’s membership of the Bolivarian Alliance for the P...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Observer - JAMAICA continues to agonise over the cost of electricity and the capacity to pay for its oil imports. This agony started with the first oil price shock in 1973 and the degree of agony has varied with the ebb and flow of oil prices. The country is in the throes of tryin...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Gleaner - The Portia Simpson Miller Cabinet has approved legislative changes that could remove one of the most controversial provisions of the Child Care and Protection Act which allows a judge to incarcerate a child who is deemed to be "beyond control". "This will result in judge...