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...

Cameron KINGSTON, Jamaica - Mr Whycliffe 'Dave' Cameron takes the president's chair at the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) at a most interesting time in the game's development across the region. The recent successes of the senior men's and women's teams have heightened expe...

? 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...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Call me Thomas if you wish, but on this Easter Sunday, what is being resurrected for me is a deep distrust for those who are elected and appointed to govern us. Despite being full of 'knowledge' based on blind faith that Jesus is coming again as a thief in the night, I a...

probe KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The main opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has called for a full scale investigation into reports that National Security Minister Peter Bunting had been held up and robbed over the weekend. Opposition spokesman on National Security and Justice Delroy Chuck i...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - SECURITY Minister Peter Bunting yesterday attempted to allay fears that he was among a group of persons robbed at a villa in Portland on Saturday night. At least one online news outlet reported that Bunting and a female companion were held up and robbed by thieves who brandished...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Although tourism numbers in Barbados have been down for the year so far, the diversification of Barbados’ source markets can still prove successful. This is the word from Chairman of the Barbados Tourism Authority (BTA), Adrian Elcock. The Chairman acknowledged that th...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, CMC - The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) says senior officials, experts and private-sector representatives will on Wednesday begin discussing progress and challenges facing the region at a major conference here. ECLAC said the expansion of the d...