WASHINGTON, CMC – The United States Department of Justice says a US citizen has been convicted for directing funds to an offshore account in Nevis. On Wednesday, the department said Jimmie Duane Ross of Lehi, Utah, and formerly of Sevierville, Tennessee, was convicted of five counts of tax eva...

LONDON, CMC – The London-based human rights watchdog, Amnesty International, has called on Cuban authorities to “immediately and unconditionally” release five men named as prisoners of conscience. Amnesty International said the cases of the five men – Rafael Matos Montes de O...

(Trinidad Express) Government is seeking legal advice on the possibility of postponing the local government elections, sources said yesterday. If the government moves for a postponement this would be a complete reversal of the Prime Minister’s earlier pledges of her People’s Partnership...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Aug 9, CMC – A meeting late Thursday between Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar and an environment group opposed to a section of the multi-billion dollar highway south of here, ended with both parties giving contrasting viewpoints on its outcome. The Highway Re-rou...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - FOR CLOSE to an hour and a half, bathers got an unusual treat when Burke’s Beach on Bay Street was transformed into an underwater park with the presence of more than two dozen dolphins. One swimmer on the popular beach told the WEEKEND NATION he was plea...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC - Chile’s Ambassador to the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), Eduardo Bonilla has affirmed his country’s support for an enhanced relationship with the regional grouping. Bonilla, the first Ambassador of Chile to the OECS, expressed confidence in th...

NEW YORK, CMC – A grand jury here has refused to re-indict a New York Police Department (NYPD) officer who last year shot dead a Jamaican youth in his own home. Police officer Richard Haste was indicted in June 2012, four months after the shooting death of Ramarley Graham, 18, in his Bronx, N...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Observer -Digicel will eliminate roaming charges for clients travelling within the US and Caricom, effective October 1, 2013. Phillip Paulwell, Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) president, announced the agreement with the mobile telecoms giant throughout the region on Wedne...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Observer - NOT for the first time, the annual Denbigh show was held in the long shadow cast by that scourge of modern Jamaican agriculture, farm theft, stylishly referred to as praedial larceny. Farmers have to deal with droughts, floods, extreme price fluctuations, and the high ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - The opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has won Thursday’s by-election in the Cassia Park Division of the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC) - the municipal body which runs the affairs of the capital city. The JLP's Beverly Prince defeated and Sheryn Brom...