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Council urges regional governments to do more in the fight against blindness

The Caribbean Council for the Blind (CCB) says unless regional governments make a strategic and fiscal decision to fund the training, recruitment and placement...read more

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Police: Swiss tourist gang-raped in India

Police are investigating the gang-rape of a tourist in central India, the latest black eye for the country over violence against women. ...read more

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Rights group: Syria expanding use of cluster bombs

More civilians in Syria are dying because government forces are using increasing numbers of cluster bombs in residential areas, a rights group said Saturday....read more

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Kenyan presidential contender files court petition disputing results

Lawyers for Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga filed a petition Saturday to challenge election results that declared him the runner-up in the presidential election....read more

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Government vows to take hard line on spending

Finance Minister Bob Richards has pledged to take a "very hard line" on spending after tabling close to US$100 million of supplementary budget estimates in the House of Assembly....read more

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Dominica congratulates new Chinese President

The Dominica government says it is looking forward “to even greater collaboration” with China following the election of Xi Jinping as the new head of state in the Communist country....read more

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New programme to support sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Friday announced plans to launch a biodiversity and ecosystems services programme (BSE)...read more

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Passenger, who became ill on Caribbean Airlines flight, dies

Caribbean Airlines (CAL) Friday confirmed that a 35 year-old passenger, who had taken ill on a flight from Miami to Trinidad and Tobago died in Puerto Rico...read more

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Court jails man who kidnapped school girl

A High Court judge has sentenced a man who kidnapped a 15 year-old school girl and sexually abused her in 2012 to nearly nine years in prison on Friday....read more

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24 killed in South Africa bus crash

A bus carrying members of a church group crashed in South Africa's Western Cape province on Friday, killing 24 of the people aboard, police said....read more

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