Port of Spain, Trinidad. The legal challenge alleging that the Law Schools’ admissions process discriminates against holders of non-University of the West Indies (UWI) law degrees was dismissed Friday afternoon in a judgment delivered at the Caribbean Court of Justice ...
High Court Judge, Gino Persaud Friday afternoon threw out People’s Progressive Party’s Bibi Shadick’s efforts to block the holding of local government elections for numerous neighbourhood councils on the grounds that local government minister, Ronald Bulkan did not first issue ...
The captain of the ill-fated Fly Jamaica Airlines jet that made an emergency landing at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport alleged that several personal items were stolen from the plane, police said. Police and fire officials said at least nine ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Nelson A. King The Brooklyn-based St. Vincent and the Grenadines Diaspora Committee of New York, Inc., says it will be collaborating with Brooklyn’s Medgar Evers College in hosting a public lecture, at the college’s ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Orlando Milesi SANTIAGO, Nov. 7, 2018 (IPS) – “For the third consecutive year there is bad news” for Latin America and the Caribbean, where the numbers of hungry people have increased to “39.3 million ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Alexandra Simon An anti-tobacco advocacy organization is hosting its annual teen leadership summit in Manhattan this weekend. The Nov. 10 event organized by NYC Smoke Free — a program spearheaded by the public health ...
A Fly Jamaica airliner crashed early Friday morning at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri, officials said. Six persons were injured and rushed to Diamond Regional Hospital. “They are all stable and are being looked at,” Minister of Public Infrastructure, ...
Former Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Kamla Persad-Bissessar Thursday night urged Guyana to formulate a broad-based national development policy to spend expected “massive” oil wealth on developing the country over the next 200 years. Addressing the Guyana Manufacturing and ...
The Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) is willing to assist Guyana in assessing whether offshore oil industry work is impacting on fish stock, but Guyana says it may be better for oil companies to collect the relevant data. CRFM Executive ...
See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Azad Ali Former Pakistan leg-spinner, Mushtaq Ahmed has taken up a job as assistant coach with the West Indies team. He recently ended his stint as the coach of Pakistan’s National Cricket Academy (NCA) ...