Nettleford bemoans gender gap among UWI graduates
BRIDGETOWN (CMC): Caribbean scholar Professor Rex Nettleford is lamenting the continuing great disparity between males and females entering tertiary institutions throughout the region. Speaking here at the opening of the symposium in honour of National Hero Sir Frank Walcott...
Caribbean child mortality rates plunge
NEW YORK (CMC):The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) says new figures show solid progress on child survival, including a decline in the annual number of deaths of those under five years old, in the Caribbean and Latin America.UNICEF said the...
Pesticide crisis in French Caribbean
PARIS, France (Reuters):Widespread use of pesticides in banana plantations in the French Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique has caused a "health disaster", according to the author of a report to be presented to Parliament today....
Pressure on cops to charge their own
ST. JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC): Commissioner of Police Delano Christopher has come under more pressure to lay charges against a police officer held in connection with the 2006 fatal shooting of an aide to a government minister....
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