Grenada parliament approves amendment to marijuana legislation
The Grenada parliament has given the green light to legislation amending the existing marijuana legislation marijuana even as Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell Tuesday said that his preference had been for the decriminalisation to take effect from the…
CARICOM to offer three-level crop protection training programme
The Guyana-based Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat Wednesday said it is offering a three-level crop protection training programme aimed at building knowledge and practical capacity across the food production and processing sector in the…
Maduro is set to make his first appearance in a US courtroom on drug trafficking charges
NEW YORK (AP) — Deposed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is set to make his first appearance Monday in an American courtroom on the narco-terrorism charges the Trump administration used to justify capturing him and bringing him to New York.…
US plans to ‘run’ Venezuela and tap its oil reserves, Trump says, after operation to oust Maduro
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Hours after an audacious military operation that plucked leader Nicolás Maduro from power and removed him from the country, President Donald Trump said Saturday that the United States would run Venezuela at least…
UN food agencies warn that millions of lives at risk as hunger crisis worsens
Haiti has been identified among 16 countries and territories worldwide by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) of a major hunger emergency, with acute food insecurity set to worsen between now and May 2026,…
COP30 opens with countries urged to push for faster climate progress
The 30th Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) began here on Monday, with a clear message that the era of half-measures is over and that climate change is real, devastating communities and driving up…
Another plea for Caribbean countries to become full members of the CCJ
A senior Guyana government minister has taken Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries to task over the decision of some of them not to be full members of the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) that was established two decades ago to…
Region observing Caribbean Statistics Day
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary general, Dr. Carla Barnett Wednesday underscored the importance of statistics to regional development saying that the 15-member grouping is at the midpoint of implementing the 12-year Regional Strategy for the…
Heavy rains flood Mexico towns, leaves many dead or missing
Torrential rains that lashed Mexico last week killed at least 64 people and 65 more are missing, the government said on Monday, after a tropical depression triggered landslides and flooding in parts of the Gulf Coast and central states. The unnamed…
Bahamian Father to be sentenced for beating son over bad grade
A 41-year-old father will return to a magistrate court on December 10 for sentencing after he pleaded guilty to beating his 10year-old child over a bad grade at school. The father appeared before Magistrate Abigail Farrington on Thursday where he…