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Guyanese attorney declines post of DPP citing internet attack on integrity
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Guyanese-born attorney Kurt De Freitas, who was due to take up the post of Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) here next month, is no longer accepting the post, Attorney General Levi Peter announced Wednesday. Peter told a news conference that he had received a letter from De Freitas citing unsubstantiated statements about him on the internet…
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National Security Minister resigns
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – National Security Minister Charles Savarin has resigned paving the way for his nomination as a government candidate for the post of President of Dominica. Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, speaking on the state-owned DBS radio on Thursday morning, said that Savarin’s name would be forwarded to the parliament ahead of the election of a new head of…
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Parliamentarians debate decriminalisation of marijuana
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The need for clarity on the difference between the decriminalisation and legalization of marijuana was highlighted by Parliamentarians at a recent sitting of the House of Representatives. On Tuesday, Damion Crawford, of the ruling People’s National Party (PNP), in his contribution to the ongoing debate surrounding marijuana, argued that persons should not have a police record…
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Orange day
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – On Wednesday, July 25, 2012, UNiTE, the UN Secretary General’s campaign to end violence against women proclaimed that the twenty-fifth day of every month would be dubbed Orange Day and it would be used to bring attention to preventing and ending what has been dubbed ‘the Global scourge’ ‒ violence against women and girls. The UNiTE campaign…
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Climate change has economic benefits — Pickersgill
KINGSTON, Jamaica – ENVIRONMENT and climate change minister Robert Pickersgill yesterday challenged engineers to take advantage of the economic opportunities presented by climate change even as they seek to manage the risks associated with the phenomenon. Addressing the second day of the Jamaica Institution of Engineers (JIE) Engineer's Week Conference, billed 'Engineers Embracing Change', at the Knutsford Court Hotel, the…
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United States provides funds to Trinidad and Tobago under CBSI
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The United States is providing Trinidad and Tobago with TT$11.3 million (One TT dollar = US$0.16 cents) for security assistance programmes through the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI). The agreement increases cooperative opportunities between the two governments to develop programmes aimed at increasing citizen security in the areas of juvenile justice, youth development, counter-narcotics,…
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IMF shifts strategy on Caribbean economies
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – In an apparent shift of emphasis, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is advocating that economic growth be placed at the centre of the recovery of Caribbean islands, many of which have been battered by the impact of the global financial crisis. In presenting the luncheon feature address on the second day of a two-day forum…
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PM urges UN to ratify arms treaty
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The death of T&T scholarship winner Ravindra Ramrattan during the recent terrorist attack at a mall in Kenya was another example of the consequences of the illicit arms flow across borders, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar told the United Nations General Assembly yesterday. Persad-Bissessar spoke about Ramrattan’s death as she urged world leaders to ratify the…
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