GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana on Thursday officially swore in a five-member Commission of Inquiry to investigate the sinking of the MV Barima earlier this month, a maritime disaster that is believed to have claimed the lives of more than 100 people. 

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The non-governmental organisation – Fi We Children Foundation,  has joined calls for the sex offenders registry to be made public, following the rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl in the northern parish of Trelawny last week. Shani Coke in Trelawny.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - President Irfaan Ali said buoyancy bags will be used to try and re-float the MV Barima which capsized last Saturday resulting in the deaths so far of 57 people, including 15 children and the rescue of 76 others.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ)  says it will on Wednesday this week deliver its judgment in the appeal of the Guyana Opposition Leader, Azruddin Mohamed and his businessman father, Nazar Mohamed regarding his extradition to the United States where he is wanted on several fraud related matters.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – President Irfaan Ali Friday said he was “saddened” at the death of “a literary figure of worth” as he paid tribute to Dr. Ian McDonald,” one of the Caribbean’s distinguished son”. He was 93 years old.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The death toll from last Saturday’s boating incident has risen to 41 and eight others were rescued as the search continues along the Essequibo Coast, the Guyana government said in a statement on Tuesday.

ROSEAU, Dominica - Two Americans were found guilty on Tuesday of the murders of Canadian businessman and his partner whose bodies were found in a burnt out vehicle on December 1,  2023.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – A Jamaican woman who was on the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Most Wanted Fraudster list has been extradited from Jamaica to the United States to face charges in connection with an alleged scheme to fraudulently obtain more than US$32 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyanese authorities were allowing relatives to claim the bodies of their loved ones as the death toll from last weekend’s boating tragedy climbed to 53, on Tuesday.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The Guyana government will consider making the area where the MV Barima sank on July 18, killing at more than 100 people into a memorial, should the relatives of the families of those who have died agree to that option, Prime Minister Mark Phillips said on Tuesday.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Search and recovery operations continue off Guyana’s Essequibo Coast following the deadly sinking of the ferry – MV Barima, as authorities confirmed that two more bodies were recovered today, bringing the death toll to 72.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – For millions of Haitians, daily life has become a struggle to stay safe, find enough food and simply move around their own neighbourhood.