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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Uncle Sam is still silent.

WASHINGTON, CMC –The United States says it will review cases in which Caribbean and other detainees are being held in solitary confinement in detention centers and jails around the country.

KINGSTON, Jamaica - When we consider the state of many of the economics in the Eurozone and especially the recent near meltdown in Cyprus at the end of last month, many do contend that politician

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Cabinet has decided to accord former member of parliament and attorney Vere Bird Jr an official funeral.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, April 4, CMC - Former Education Minister Rev.Dale Bisnauth died on Wednesday following a heart attack.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Fewer, but more severe hurricanes, are predicted in the first major forecasts for the 2013 Atlantic Hurricane Season.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Seven hundred and thirty-one local BAICO policyholders are slated to receive monies they have been awaiting for four years, in Phase II of the collapsed companies payouts.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC-A planned protest march by Civil Servants failed to materialise on Thursday, as organisers were not granted Police permission to take to the streets.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - Ahead of Thursday’s presentation of the 2013/2013 Budget Debate, a local financial analyst is warning of major challenges on the horizon .

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - The islandwide protest by doctors in the public health sector has stemmed from an impending reclassification exercise to be undertaken during the 2013/2014 financial year

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Most government ministries and departments will have to survive with less money this fiscal year as Finance Minister Dr Peter Phillips has kept his word and dramatically tight

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Governor General Sir Patrick Allen says the divestment of Public Sector assets and a major infrastructural project will be some of the areas of focus by the Portia Simpso

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas government says it will move to install emergency lights at the Mayaguana airport after an aircraft crashed into a vehicle killing three people on Thursday.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - According to a recent international study conducted by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), teachers are giving girls higher marks than boys in s

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - How beneficial or not to the Caribbean is the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the 27-nation European Union (EU) as a bloc and the 15 small Caribbean members of

UNITED KINGDON—Two Caribbean countries were among the offshore havens used by more than 175,000 UK-registered companies with directors giving addresses in those jurisdictions, the UK Guardian rep

KINGSTON, Jamaica - FINANCE officials from 13 Caribbean island nations and territories met yesterday in Antigua to brainstorm about ways of strengthening anti-money-laundering efforts and asset f

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - “The private sector must be the driver of the economy!” This is the expressed view of His Excellency, the Hon.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- George Corvington, a prominent Haitian historian best known for his exhaustive study of the Caribbean nation's capital of Port-au-Prince, died Wednesday at age 88, a

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The second meeting of the Cariforum/EU Parliamentary Committee sought to facilitate easier trade and travel between the Caribbean and European Union (EU) states.