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GEORGETOWN, Guyana - At the end of last month, a high-level international panel, which had been meeting under the auspices of the United Nations to look at the world beyond the 2015 end of timeta

Family members in South Florida are possibly behind a dangerous new trend in the Caribbean: the smuggling of undocumented Haitian immigrants from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico, a senior C

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, CMC – The United States Coast Guard along with the Royal Netherlands Navy has seized 1,517 pounds of cocaine, with a street value of about US$24 million, from a go-fast ves

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Health is unarguably the most important issue for any society. When health is impaired there is a reduced standard of life and, in some cases, a loss of life.

KINGSTON, Jamaica - A development that could affect the economics of some of Jamaica's more prosperous Caribbean neighbours and, perhaps, the pocketbooks of some of our better-heeled citizens, pa

WASHINGTON, CMC – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has furnished a US$15 million grant to Haiti to support policy, legal and institutional reforms in the agricultural sector.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The news that our Minister of Tourism, Irfaan Ali is engaging his Trinidadian counterpart about the unilateral, dramatic increase of airfares by Caribbean Airlines Limited (C

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Jamaica has given the new board of the Trinidad-based Caribbean Airlines (CAL) a month to indicate how it intends to use the Air Jamaica brand in the future.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - Increasingly intense diplomacy among the Nato powers about the turmoil in Syria has been a feature of the last few weeks leading to this week’s G8 meeting hosted by Britain i

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - LEADERS OF THE G8 countries – United States, Japan, Canada, Russia, Germany, France, Britain and Italy (representing just over half of the US$71.7 trillion global economy)

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - THE parliamentary opposition Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party (ABLP) has alerted the secretariats of both the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Organisation of Ameri

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - In the opinion of Jon Berryhill, the IT expert contracted by lawyer Israel Khan to review the package of e-mail documents read in Parliament by Opposition Leader Dr Keit

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The People’s National Movement (PNM) yesterday defended leader Dr Keith Rowley for meeting with Integrity Commission chairman Kenneth Gordon just days before he piloted

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - In the face of a raging controversy over his meeting with Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley at his personal residence, Integrity Commission chairman Ken Gordon is certai

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica government is implementing measures to further reduce crime in the country and is focusing on at-risk youth, according to National Security Minister Peter

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, CMC - Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller is calling on members of the Jamaican Diaspora to invest in the country saying also that foreign investors have shown their confid

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Myrtle Halsall, senior deputy governor of the Bank of Jamaica, is suggesting that, as a countermove, Jamaica could initiate steps to get financial information on nationals liv

KINGSTON, Jamaica - During an enlightening presentation to internal auditors at a recent meeting of the Institute of Internal Auditors (Jamaica chapter) by Mr George Roper, Scotiabank's, vice-pre

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC - Premier Craig Cannonier has ruled out gay marriage in Bermuda, declaring “under my leadership, that will not happen”.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Opposition Leader Mia Mottley has described as “unprecedented,” the manner in which Police Commissioner Darwin Dottin was sent on leave pending his retirement in the p