MIAMI, CMC – Top United States military officials say a fiber-optic communications cable linking Florida to the US Naval base at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba will be laid in 2015. Navy Lieutenant Commander Ronald Flanders, a US Southern Command, spokesman has agreed with the two-year timetab...

MIAMI, CMC – The United States Coast Guard says a joint operation with the Royal Bahamian Police Force Drug Enforcement Unit and the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), known collectively as Operation Bahamas Turks and Caicos (OPBAT), seized 67 bales of marijuana on Little Farmer’s...

NEW YORK, CMC – A United States sustainability group says that it will build an orphanage and children’s facility in Haiti in honour of former US President Bill Clinton. US Green Building Council (USGBC) president, chief executive officer and founding chair Rick Fedrizzi said the facili...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - Audley Shaw, the opposition Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) spokesman on Finance has declared that he is the right man to lead the 70-year-old political party to victory in the next general election. On Sunday, the former Finance Minister officially launched his campaign ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The Grenada government took an important forward step last week in announcing its intention to review and make “necessary changes” to legislation that raised fears of potential disadvantage to free expression. In response to criticism by local, regional and inte...

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC - A High Court judge has reserved judgment in a case in which the St. Kitts-Nevis government is seeking to lift an injunction granted to opposition legislators wanting to stop the implementation of proposed changes to the constituency boundaries ahead of the next general e...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - State carrier Caribbean Airlines has suspended one of its managers as an investigation continues into what has been described as a million-dollar fraud involving the use of bogus credit cards which has already cost CAL more than $12 million in losses. Sources familiar with...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC - The main opposition United Workers Party (UWP) has expressed concern about the service provided by the regional carrier LIAT. UWP Leader Allen Chastanet says the operations of LIAT are critical to the tourism industry and the overall business market of St Lucia, notwithsta...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - GUYANA'S Prime Minister Samuel Hinds and other Government officials Thursday night hailed the opening up of a direct route from Jamaica to Guyana by Fly Jamaica airline. According to Hinds, the route represents an expected growth in tourism and commerce in the South American...

NEW YORK, CMC – Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer says the collapse of the Trinidad-based insurance conglomerate, CLICO, and the Stanford Group of companies, has resulted in more than EC$400 million (One EC dollar = US$0.37 cents) “disappearing like a puff of smoke from the economy”. ...