Canada minister to meet with Haiti’s Prime Minister

WASHINGTON, CMC – Canada’s International Co-operation Minister Julian Fantino will meet with Haiti’s Prime Minister Laurent Lamote on Friday more than four months after he questioned the level of aid to the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country. The meeting here wil...
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Guyanese doctor makes TIME Magazine list

News Americas, NEW YORK, NY: Guyana-born HIV Expert, Dr. Deborah Persaud, has made the Time Magazine list of 2013 World List of ‘Top 100’ Influential People. Persaud, a top researcher at Johns Hopkins Pediatric, was propelled into the spotlight in early March when she and colleagues Han...
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Kerry Encourages Venezuela Recount

CARACAS, Venezuela — Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday that Venezuela should hold a recount of votes cast in its presidential election, which the country’s electoral authorities say was narrowly won by a protégé of former President Hugo Chávez. The prot&e...
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US senate passes sweeping plan for illegal Caribbean immigrants

WASHINGTON, CMC - A bipartisan group of United States senators on Tuesday passed a sweeping immigration bill that seeks to legalize the status of an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants, including Caribbean nationals, residing in the US. The bill is also aimed at re-orienting future immigration b...
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Thatcher’s Funeral is Held at St. Paul’s Cathedral

LONDON — A horse-drawn gun carriage bore the coffin of Margaret Thatcher to St. Paul’s Cathedral on Wednesday for a ceremonial funeral that divided British opinion, much as the former prime minister known as the Iron Lady stirred deep and conflicting emotions during her lifetime and, in ...
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Venezuela’s bleak future

Instead of the resounding endorsement they were hoping for in Sunday’s presidential election in Venezuela, allies of the late President Hugo Chávez got a message from the electorate: Enough of Chavismo and the failed policies of “21st Century Socialism.” The late president&...
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Former premier re-arrested in Brazil

PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos, CMC – A Brazilian court has ordered the re-arrest of former Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) premier Michael Misick. The spokesman for the Governor’s Office, Neil Smith said that the Brazilian Justice Minister issued his decision to refuse Misick's ap...
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Boston Seeks Answers in Deadly Blasts

BOSTON — The day after two powerful bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, a mile-square area of downtown Boston remained cordoned off as a crime scene, and officials still had no one in custody. However, investigators searched a house in a nearby suburb late Monday night....
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Victory Proves Gloomy for Venezuela’s New Leader

CARACAS, Venezuela — It hardly seemed like a victory celebration. Nicolás Maduro stepped onto a stage here Sunday night after being declared the winner by a narrow margin in the presidential election to replace his mentor,Hugo Chávez, but his supporters were already streaming awa...
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