BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - Making wise food choices would help to prevent obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, high cholesterol and other chronic non-communicable diseases (CNCDs). This is according to the National Nutrition Centre who lays out eight easy to follow guidelines...

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, Observer- A probe is underway to determine what caused a LIAT plane to fill with smoke while en route to Antigua on Sunday night. Several members of the country’s national swim team were on that flight, which was forced to divert to Guadeloupe. OBSERVER media’...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - The new Kerryann Ifill Unit at the University of the West Indies (UWI) is one more step in the direction of making the university a fully inclusive tertiary educational institution. Building upon the success of the already implemented Vision and Fortitude programme,...

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, Observer - – A local medical practitioner is making a case for government to relax the rules on the use of marijuana … while at the same time calling for a complete ban on tobacco. Dr Leslie Walwyn acknowledged that ganja has some harmful effects such as induci...

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Antigua and Barbuda says it is positioned to benefit from the establishment of a major tourism development project with Qatar. In a statement on Saturday, it was revealed that Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer recently held official talks with the Emir of Qatar, S...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica government says it remains resolute in ensuring that equitable trading practices are observed by all stakeholders in the manufacturing sector, whether local or international. “We have to ensure that our trading partners play honestly, and that unfair ...

PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC – A Suriname based foundation is calling on the Netherlands to apologise for its role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Chairman of the Broki (Bridge) Collective said if the Dutch didn’t apologise in 2013, then the group would lodge a complaint with internation...

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – The Dominica government says it has no intention of changing the present buggery laws even as the advocacy group, Minority Rights Dominica (MiriDom) said it was seeking talks with the authorities on the matter of equal rights. Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, speaking ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The murder trial of singer Vybz Kartel was adjourned to June 10 after a witness failed to appear in court on Monday Kartel, whose real name is Adijah Palmer, is jointly charged with Lenburgh McDonald and Nigel Thompson in the July 2011 murder of St Catherine businessma...

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – Police are appealing for public assistance in apprehending those involved in the murder of two unidentified people, whose charred remains were found inside a vehicle over the weekend. Police said that they had responded to a “bush fire” and after extinguishi...