KINGSTON – Lawyers representing the Jamaica government yesterday served notice at the Shanique Myrie trial that they would present evidence to show that Barbados has engaged in a pattern of discrimination against visiting Jamaicans. The evidence, according to lead attorney Kathy-Ann Brown, in...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez predicted, during a visit to Jamaica eight years ago, that the PetroCaribe arrangement would save participating countries billions of dollars from crude oil purchases. Following Chávez's passing yesterday, Dr Wesley Hughes,...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - FOREIGN AFFAIRS and Foreign Trade Minister Senator A.J. Nicholson yesterday said that if the late Hugo Chávez's United Socialist Party wins in another national election "we would dare to hope that the PetroCaribe and other projects would continue." In an interview on R...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Caribbean Community leaders were Wednesday paying tribute to Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez who died Tuesday after a prolonged battle with cancer. St. Lucia’s Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony said that the significance of Chavez's death "looms very large...

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – The Dominica government Tuesday night declared a national state of mourning in honour of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez who died earlier following a long battle with cancer. In an emotional address to the nation, Prime Minster Roosevelt Skerrit, who described Chavez ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC- Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias, who for more than 14 years, used his influence, oil and cash to fashion closer relationship among countries in the Caribbean died Wednesday, less than a month after he returned to Caracas from Cuba where he had been receiving treatment for cancer....

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s health has taken a turn for the worse as he battles a “new and severe” lung infection in the wake of a trouble-plagued cancer surgery, the government said Monday. In a televised announcement, Information Minister Ernesto Villegas said Ch&aa...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - West Indies fast-bowling legend Andy Roberts has criticised regional territorial boards for refusing to support former captain Clive Lloyd's bid to be president of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). Lloyd was nominated by the Guyana Cricket Board but a deadline ran ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - There are no reports of fatalities in the aftermath of an accident in Cuba which involved Caribbean nationals on Saturday. According to a release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs here, the accident that took place close to the town Santa Clara, involved several Caribbea...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Doctors at the Mount Hope Maternity Hospital Monday delivered six babies as a 28 year-old woman became the first person to have sextuplets in the Caribbean. The three boys and three girls were delivered by caesarean section and lead obstetrician Dr. Bharat Bassa...