PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – A growing number of people in Haiti are at risk of malnutrition after heavy rains damaged food crops last year, according to the United Nations. In its monthly bulletin, the UN mission here said that as much as 90 per cent of the food crops had been destroyed duri...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados government will soon discuss legislation allowing for the seizure of the ill-gotten gains from criminal activity through civil procedures, Attorney General and Minister of Home Affairs, Adriel Brathwaite, has said. Brathwaite said over the last two year...

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas government has warned nationals travelling to the United States to be careful about their possession as they embark upon shopping expeditions in the North American country. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said this “is the traditional season for Bahamia...

BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – Belize has issued a dengue alert after a outbreaks of the virus in neighbouring countries like Costa Rica, Nicaraqua, El Salvador and Honduras. The Ministry of Health said that a state of emergency had been declared in Honduras where 16 people had died from the virulen...

Zimbabwe GEORGETOWN, Guyana - When –as appears likely, at least at this juncture – general elections are held in Zimbabwe later this year under a new constitution Robert Mugabe will, in all likelihood, be running for office as President of the Southern African country again. The one-time...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - With looming uncertainty over the PetroCaribe Energy Cooperation Agreement, following the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, there is concern that the future of the projects under the cash-rich PetroCaribe Development Fund (PDF) is also unsure. With an asset base ...

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – An accountant has been appointed to look into the business affairs of companies of former financier R Allen Stanford. Hordley Forbes of Forbes & Associates, Chartered Accountants, will conduct investigations into Stanford Development Company (SDC) Ltd and three ...

Giving’ ST JOHN’S, Antigua – A “pioneer”, “passionate” and “giving” is how colleagues, friends and family described Vere Cornwall Bird Jr, who died on Easter Sunday at the age of 76. The eldest son of deceased father of the nation, Sir Vere Bird...

welcome KINGSTON, Jamaica - CONGRATULATIONS to Jamaican Wycliffe "Dave" Cameron and Dominican Emmanuel Nanthan at being elected to the ultra-important positions of President and vice president, respectively, West Indies Cricket Board. These are positive examples of youth not at all having been wast...

? KINGSTON, Jamaica - The former USSR was a politically aligned collection of previously independent states that did little more than serve the egotistic, power-hungry needs of leaders such as Josef Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev, while countering the superpower status of the United S...