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UN Arms Trade Treaty workshop underway in St. Vincent
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC -As the Fourth Regional Workshop on Negotiations for the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty opened on Wednesday, Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves used the case of a Vincentian woman paralysed by a bullet to highlight the impact of years of unregulated trade in weapons. “With that single bullet, this young lady went from being a star…
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Great new challenge for the world’s women
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – THIS year’s International Women’s Day finds women enjoying more prosperity and privileges than at any other time in human history. Yet this is also the first time in history that there have been so few women in the world relative to men. In all Western nations, women are now more educated, earn higher incomes, and…
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Women prime ministers urge an end to violence against women
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Caribbean only two women heads of government Friday pledged to end violence and discrimination against women in their respective countries as they joined the global community in observing International Women’s Day. Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar and her Jamaican counterpart, Portia Simpson Miller said the theme to observe the occasion…
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” A PROMISE IS A PROMISE – TIME FOR ACTION TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN,” STATEMENT BY THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), AMBASSADOR IRWIN LAROCQUE ON THE OCCASION OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY, 8 MARCH 2013
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) On this occasion of the Thirty-Eighth Observance of United Nations (UN) International Women’s Day, I again salute the women and girls of the Caribbean Community. Today provides us with an opportunity to reflect on the promises continually made to our women and girls focusing, in particular, on issues related to their personal security and…
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Cabinet minister’s son jailed in United States
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – The 25-year-old son of a Bermuda cabinet minister has been jailed for 18 years in Florida for a string of violent offences. Tyler Abbott, son of the Minister Without Portfolio Leah Scott, received the sentence after a plea bargain. US law enforcement authorities said that Abbott had threatened an 87-year-old woman and stole her purse and…
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Jamaica debt exchange affects Sagicor
KINGSTON, Jamaica – The fallout from Jamaica’s recently approved debt exchange arrangement has hit at least one of Barbados’ biggest financial institutions. Sagicor Financial Corporation, which has hundreds of millions of dollars in investments in Jamaica, had some of its companies placed “under review with negative implications” for its financial strength rating by international insurance rating company A.M. Best Co.…
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Jamaica’s cancer programme under review
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – A delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has arrived here to carry out a comprehensive evaluation of Jamaica’s cancer control capacity in the areas of cancer planning, cancer information, prevention, diagnosis and treatment, palliative care, and training. The delegation is expected to make recommendations to the authorities following its review. Health Minister Dr. Fenton…
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Government to appeal court ruling regarding senators
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC – The St. Kitts-Nevis government says it will appeal a ruling by the High Court regarding the appointment of an attorney general for St. Kitts and Nevis under the present constitution. “The government has been advised to appeal the matter, firstly, on the question as to whether the interpretation that has been given by the Learned…
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