ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit says many international financial institutions take a long time to disburse funds to developing countries as he applauded the work of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) bank. Skerrit, commenting on the decisi...

OLORADO, CMC - Weather forecasters at Colorado State University (CSU) have lowered their prediction for the 2013 Atlantic Hurricane Season. “We continue to anticipate an above-average season in 2013, although we have lowered our forecast slightly due to anomalous cooling in the eastern subtr...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Caribbean teachers are meeting here on Monday amidst a call for the region to produce educators that would help establish a competent workforce to help the Caribbean deal with a changing global environment. Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General Irwin la Ro...

PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands, CMC –Former premier Michael Misick has denied reports that he is negotiating a plea bargain with British and American law enforcement authorities. Misick, who is in a Brazilian jail awaiting extradition to the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), has dism...

MIAMI, CMC - The United States Coast Guard says it has repatriated 69 migrants including 26 Haitian nationals. It said the crew of the cutters, William Flores and Sitkinak, also repatriated 43 Cuban migrants. “These repatriations are a result of five separate interdiction cases throughout ...

TIPUTINI RIVER, Ecuador -- Waving away a cloud of gnats, biologist Phyllis “Lissy” Coley scours the Amazonian underbrush for inga shrubs, whose young leaves are loaded with powerful toxins and chemicals that might be useful in medical research. Coley and her team from the University of ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Guardian - Republic Bank Ltd has acquired a majority stake in Ghana’s HFC Bank Ltd and is prepared to make an offer for all the remaining shares in the bank if it is mandated to do so. “Republic Bank continues at this time to engage in discussions with the S...

MOSCOW, Russia: The world's fastest man, Usain Bolt, is looking to go even faster in Moscow, Russia. A few hours after stepping off a plane at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport ahead of the IAAF World Champion-ships, the double Olympic champion and world record holder wasted no time in making his...

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States extended embassy closures by a week in the Middle East and Africa as a precaution yesterday after an al Qaeda threat that U.S. lawmakers said was the most serious in years. The State Department said 19 U.S. embassies and consulates would be closed thr...

(Trinidad Express) Political leaders have agreed to President Anthony Carmona’s call to bite the bullet of campaign financing reform. Those in agreement on Saturday included Leader of Government Business Dr Roodal Moonilal, People’s National Movement political leader Dr Keith Rowley, in...