WASHINGTON, CMC - A bipartisan group of legislators in the United States House of Representatives say they have reached a deal in principle in overhauling America’s immigration laws. Aides said the bill in the House of Representatives is similar to one introduced in the US Senate that include...

MOORE, Okla. — Emergency crews and volunteers continued to work through the early morning hours Tuesday in a frantic search for survivors of a huge tornado that ripped through parts of Oklahoma City and its suburbs, killing at least 91 people, 20 of them children, and flattening whatever was in its ...

WASHINGTON, CMC – United States law enforcement officials say two foreign nationals had been jailed in Texas for smuggling human into the United States using the Caribbean. The Department of Justice (DOJ) said Indian national Kaushik Jayantibhai Thakkar and Brazilian Fabiano Augusto Amorim were each...

NEW YORK, CMC - A major international credit rating agency is warning of more Caribbean sovereign debt restructurings ahead of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) annual meetings in St. Lucia this week. The Wall Street-based Moody’s Investor Service said on Monday that it expects sovereign credit q...

MIAMI, CMC – The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) says a federal judge has unsealed a three-count indictment returned by a grand jury in the Southern District of Florida charging an American woman for her role in bringing 143 Haitian nationals to the United States on fraudulently obtained g...

NEW YORK, CMC – Former Jamaican Prime Minister, P.J. Patterson will be honoured by the New York based nonprofit Children of Jamaica Outbreach (COJO) its Scholarship Luncheon and Awards this week. The group says it will also honor corporate giant J. Wray and Nephew Limited at the same event at the Sp...

WASHINGTON, CMC – A new World Bank report predicts that in less than a generation, the Caribbean will be among developing countries dominating global saving and investment. The World Bank’s Global Development Horizons (GDH) report says that by 2030, half the global stock of capital, totaling US$158...

NEW YORK, CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) says a leading United States television and film star has partnered as the celebrity spokesperson for its 40th celebration of Caribbean Week in New York. Perhaps best known as the “Medical Examiner, Melinda Warner” on NBC’s lon...

PARIS — The euro zone economy shrank more than expected in the first three months of 2013, official data showed Wednesday, marking a sixth consecutive quarter of decline as France returned to recession for the first time since 2009 and Germany marked time. The 17-nation euro zone contracted by...

WASHINGTON, CMC – A new study published here is urging Latin America and Caribbean governments to renew efforts to modernize their tax system. The study done by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) suggests that while Latin America and the Caribbean have made great strides in boosting tax...