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Celebration of soca and chutney music at Chutney Fusion Festival 2025
Home/News/Local news/Celebration of soca and chutney music at Chutney Fusion Festival 2025 LifestyleLocal news 3 minutes ago Xoliswa Zakwe 1 minute read The atmosphere was electric at Emperors Palace’s centre court on the evening of June 21 as an...

Caribbean delegation lauds ‘productive’ reparation talks after Europe visit
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – Several activists and researchers in the reparations movement from across the region have hailed two successful days of constructive engagements with political representatives from the European Union (EU) and the...

UK mobile network with 10 million customers brings back free roaming
A leading mobile network with 10 million customers is set to reintroduce free roaming for travellers this summer. UK holidaymakers heading to the European Union have been informed that Three Mobile will reinstate this significant benefit for them....

UG’s Architecture Dept. cops 1st place at int’l competition
The University of Guyana’s Architecture Department in the Faculty of Engineering and Technology (FET) has once again copped the first prize at the 5th International Lekol Architectural Competition held in French Guiana from June 24 to 27, 2025....

Drayton misses out on a podium finish in Caribbean Blitz Chess
– finishes fourth, Pitamber ends in eighth Guyana finished outside the top three in the Caribbean Classic Blitz Chess Championship, with Anthony Drayton finishing in fourth-place at the Pegasus Corporate Suites in Georgetown. Drayton ended the...

Pakistan suspends chicken trade with Brazil due to bird flu
Pakistan is among several other countries that have placed restrictions on import of chicken from Brazil after it reported first case of bird flu in May this year. Reports said the Brazilian Agriculture Ministry has shared updated list of the...

Major UK mobile network with 10 million customers brings back free roaming
UK tourists heading to the European Union have been told Three Mobile will bring back the massive perk for them. A major mobile network with 10 million customers will bring back FREE roaming while abroad this summer. UK tourists heading to the...

Antigua hosts OAS meet
Former Suriname Minister of Foreign Affairs Albert Ramchand Ramdin attends a plenary session during the Summit on peace in Ukraine, at the luxury Burgenstock resort, near Lucerne, on June 16, 2024. Photo by URS FLUEELER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images...

Founders Metals Hits 22.5 M Of 11.88 G/T Gold In New Discovery At Maria Geralda
(MENAFN- Newsfile Corp) Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - June 24, 2025) - Founders Metals Inc. (TSXV: FDR) (OTCQX: FDMIF) (FSE: 9DL0) ("Founders" or the "Company") announces a new high-grade gold discovery at its Antino Gold Project...

John Belfield GUILTY of murdering and conspiring to rob love rival Thomas Campbell
A drug dealer who plotted and executed the horrific murder of a love rival 'tortured to death' in his own home faces a life sentence after being convicted of murder. John Belfield, 31, recruited a team to help him kill Thomas Campbell after he...

‘Jurassic World: Rebirth’—They’re Baaaack!
In the genre of “what if” science fiction movies, with a whole lot more fiction than science, comes another addition to the “Jurassic Park” collection. The seventh in the franchise, the producers have wisely returned to David Koepp, the master...

Man who organised torture and killing of 'love rival' after plotting with victim's ex-wife to arrange ambush at his luxury home is found guilty of murder
A drug dealer was today found guilty of brutally torturing and murdering a love rival in his own home - acting on information provided by the dead man's ex-wife. John Belfield, 31, 'masterminded' the savage killing of Thomas Campbell, whose...

Las Cruces native Aaron Herrera stars for Guatemala at Gold Cup
Las Cruces native and Guatemala and D.C. United defender Aaron Herrera was one of his country's best players in the CONCACAF Gold Cup, helping the Central American nation reach its first Gold Cup semifinals since 1996. Herrera played all 450...

Houston to host U.S. vs. Mexico in Gold Cup final at NRG Stadium
Sports Sunday night’s soccer game will mark the first time the CONCACAF Gold Cup final will be hosted in Texas. Daisy Espinoza/Houston Public Media A group of soccer fans arrive at NRG Stadium for the 2023 CONCACAF Gold Cup match between Mexico...

New dawn in Caribbean energy
Trinidad and Tobago is ready to partner with Suriname and the wider Caribbean to forge a collective new dawn in Caribbean energy, president of National Energy Dr Vernon Paltoo told the Suriname Energy Oil and Gas Summit last week. “By working...

Crude supply from Guyana integral to Petrotrin refinery restart -says T&T Minister
TRINIDAD and Tobago plans to refine oil from Guyana when the state-owned Petroleum Company of Trinidad and Tobago (Petrotrin) refinery restarts operations, Energy Minister, Dr. Roodal Moonilal, told Parliament on Monday, as part of a broader push...

Netherlands police embrace a public health approach to drugs. Will it work in the South?
Editor’s Note: This is Part 2 of a three-part series examining the opioid crisis in the United States and the Gulf South, and comparing it to successful drug use harm reduction efforts in the Netherlands. You can read other entries in the series...

United States and Mexico to Meet in 2025 Concacaf Gold Cup Final at Houston’s NRG Stadium on July 6
United States and Mexico advance to the Final after thrilling victories Over 90,000 fans attended sold-out Semifinals at Energizer Park and Levi’s Stadium Nearly than 60,000 tickets already distributed for the Final at NRG Stadium Limited tickets...

Making the Greater Caribbean viable: Geopolitics of a region in transformation
In a world in crisis, like the one we live in today, the first to undergo transformation are dependent, heterogeneous, and vulnerable geopolitical spaces, such as the Greater Caribbean — a diverse and strategic region that includes not only the...

Saint Lucia off to mixed start in CARICOM Chess Tournament
A team of four Saint Lucians is competing this week against the region’s best in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Classic Team Chess Tournament. The competition, featuring eight national teams, is being held at the Pegasus Suites and Corporate...