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WEBProducing Groundbreaking Investigative Journalism. CIJN Staff Writers | July 26, 2024. There are mixed official and industry messages in a selection of Caribbean countries, but CIJN investigations have unearthed, at minimum, signs that the regional fisheries sector is currently confronting a variety of potentially disastrous challenges – …
About CIJN - Caribbean Investigative Journalism Network
WEBActing in the public interest, the Caribbean Investigative Journalism Network is the region’s premier journalism organisation devoted to holding governments, corporations and other institutions accountable. Founded in 2018, CIJN produces groundbreaking storytelling about issues of ultimate importance to the Caribbean, including climate change, human trafficking, transnational drug networks ...
In the Caribbean, Women and Girls Face Daily Threats of Sexual …
WEB3 days ago · For many Caribbean women, few places are safe from the threat of rape or sexual violence. Women report experiencing sexual violence in their workplaces and being violated by people in their towns and villages. Many times, the places that should be the safest for women are the most dangerous: their own homes. Homes are where […]
In This South American Nation, Rapes of Women, Young Girls, and ...
WEB3 days ago · Victims Often Abandon Their Quest To Put Rapists Behind Bars; Police Are Slow To Act Clad in all black, the teary-eyed woman could barely compose herself in the witness box of Guyana’s High Court. The mother of the rape survivor was confronting her child’s rapist once again, this time to read her daughter’s letter. Fewer […]
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WEBThe Caribbean Investigative Journalism Network is the region’s premier investigative journalism organisation producing engaging stories for multiple platforms.
For Young Victims of Sexual Assault, Getting Justice Means …
WEB3 days ago · For the last 4 years, authorities in the twin-island nation have received more than 6,000 reports of child sex abuse cases. She curled her tiny body into a ball to fit inside the kitchen cupboard. It was dark and musty. Her four siblings were in the cupboard with her. Cheryl was five years old. Hiding away […]
Special Report: The Mysterious Assassination of Jovenel Moïse
WEBJul 27, 2021 · Haiti holds funeral for assassinated President Jovenel Moise in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, July 23, 2021. Photo credit: REUTERS/Ricardo Arduengo. Despite the arrest of alleged Colombian mercenaries and Haitian-American doctor Christian Emmanuel Sanon – described as one of the masterminds behind the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse – there remain many unsettled issues surrounding the ...
COVID in the Caribbean - Caribbean Investigative Journalism Network
WEBNo borders can repel COVID-19. When 52-year-old Ratna Baboolall left her home in Queens, N.Y. for a trip to her native Guyana, she unknowingly carried the virus to Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, where she was in transit to her village 15 minutes from Georgetown, the Guyanese capital. Before she died of the virus, she had sickened at least eight relatives, including her 59-year-old husband Ramnauth ...
Climate and Health – Caribbean Perspectives
WEBAs the world monitors the global thermometer, 1.5 to stay alive is more crucial than ever. There is a direct correlation between climate and health which is escalating. Extreme weather events, vector-borne diseases, respiratory illnesses and concerns around food and water security are issues which are looming over …
Guyana Archives - Caribbean Investigative Journalism Network
WEBDavid Papannah | September 1, 2020. When news that Guyana had joined the club of oil rich nations came in May 2015, residents of this country of 785,000 people imagined a future with state of the art schools, modern thoroughfares, and skyscrapers that would replace the colonial-era structures left behind by British colonisers.