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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former academic and legislator, Professor John Spence has died. He was 83.
Relatives said that he died of a heart attack late Wednesday.

NEW YORK, CMC – Secretary of the United States’ Homeland Security Department, Janet Napolitano, has warned passengers at John F.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - The United States-based rating agency, Moody’s Investor Services has cut Jamaica's sovereign foreign currency credit rating to Caa3 from B3, citing the recent domestic de

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Both houses of the Barbados Parliament have been constituted and the Throne Speech has been delivered as the new administration sits down to begin its business in what is g

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – A regional expert on earthquakes said residents should not fear the natural happening, but rather, prepare for its inevitable arrival.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Pungent fumes drifting over Antigua from Montserrat’s volcano sparked alarm yesterday, prompting disaster chiefs to issue a health alert.

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC - Bermuda's MPs have passed a resolution giving cabinet ministers a 10 per cent pay cut effective April 1.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar will be in Venezuela today to attend the funeral of president Hugo Chavez. Persad-Bissessar left Trinidad at 4.30 p.m.

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller is heading a high-level team of Jamaicans who will travel to Caracas, Venezuela, today to attend the funeral for that nation's late presid

CARACAS --  Hundreds of thousands of President Hugo Chávez’s followers waited hours in a three-mile-long line Thursday to file past the late leader’s coffin as Cuban leader Raúl Castro and o

WASHINGTON, CMC – The United States on Wednesday joined the global community in expressing sadness over the passing of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - With the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez 17 Caribbean countries face a heightened period of economic uncertainty, Sir Ronald Sanders, a business executive and

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Readers of these columns are well aware that we have always been critical of the undemocratic actions of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Two men, who were imprisoned during the reign of dictator Jean Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, have testified that many people had been tortured and killed while in priso

KINGSTON, Jamaica - CARIBBEAN Community (Caricom) energy ministers have approved an initial target of 47 per cent renewable energy contribution to total electricity generation in the region by 20

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Jamaican and Guyanese citizens account for the vast majority of CARICOM nationals who have been refused entry into Barbados over the last five years, according to statistics c

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC -As the Fourth Regional Workshop on Negotiations for the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty opened on Wednesday, Prime Minister Dr.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - THIS year’s International Women’s Day finds women enjoying more prosperity and privileges than at any other time in human history.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Today is International Women’s Day.

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