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Published:Tuesday | July 31, 2018 | 11:05 AM

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago Parliament Monday gave the green light to the Police Service Commission (PSC) to appoint former national security minister Gary Griffith as the new police commissioner even though his...

Published:Tuesday | July 31, 2018 | 10:42 AM

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The government has announced plans to establish a settlement area for over 200 Venezuelan refugees. This was disclosed by Minister of Citizenship, Winston Felix, who said the homestead settlement will be for 260...

Published:Monday | July 30, 2018 | 11:18 AM

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC  – Former Prime Minister Sir James Mitchell says if the Dr Ralph Gonsalves led government wants to replace the London-based Privy Council with the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), it should use a referendum...

Published:Sunday | July 29, 2018 | 12:00 AM

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A ban on Styrofoam will take effect in 2019, this follows government approval, which will also see an almost immediate ban on the importation of products Last week, Planning and Development Minister Camille Robinson-...

Published:Friday | July 27, 2018 | 11:35 AM

UNITED NATIONS, CMC – United Nations Secretary-General Secretary-General António Guterres has urged Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and other member states to pay their mandatory contributions “on time and in full,”...

Published:Friday | July 27, 2018 | 11:35 AM

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC- The Dominica government says it will ban the use of styrofoam and certain plastic items from January 1, 2019. Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit told Parliament that the decision is in keeping with his administration’s...

Published:Friday | July 27, 2018 | 11:23 AM

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Leader of the Jamaat-Al-Muslimeen group Yasin Abu Bakr says he will not apologise for the 1990 coup aimed at unseating the Trinidad and Tobago government even as he acknowledged the “unfortunate...

Published:Friday | July 27, 2018 | 11:16 AM

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC — Justice David Hayton, a United Kingdom-born judge on the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), has come in for criticism over comments made during last Friday’s ceremonial sitting of the court held in St...

Published:Thursday | July 26, 2018 | 3:49 PM

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Grenada’s new Acting Commissioner of Police Edvin Martin has announced a zero-tolerance policy on possession of offensive weapons and other illegal items. “With immediate effect, I have directed...

Published:Thursday | July 26, 2018 | 12:19 PM

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – The Grenada economy is projected to grow by 3.5 per cent this year as well as next year, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said. But, the Washington-based lending agency cautioned that while the country...

Published:Wednesday | July 25, 2018 | 4:28 PM

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Three people are being questioned as the Barbados police launch an investigation into the seizure of approximately BD$3 million worth of illegal drugs found aboard a yacht on Tuesday. Acting on a tip-off, the Royal...

Published:Tuesday | July 24, 2018 | 2:05 PM

NEW YORK, CMC –  New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has granted pardons to Caribbean and other immigrants convicted of minor offenses, even as President Donald Trump and the United States Federal Government continue to...

Published:Tuesday | July 24, 2018 | 1:51 PM

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology says there is a potential for flooding and flash floods across the region during the next three months even as the rainfall totals are forecast...

Published:Tuesday | July 24, 2018 | 1:20 PM

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – At least five people were killed during a shootout with the police during the early hours of Tuesday, law enforcement authorities have confirmed. They said that the men attempted to invade a house in Lilliendaal on...

Published:Tuesday | July 24, 2018 | 1:05 PM

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – The Directorate of Dominican Migration says it has deported nearly 70,000 Haitians during the first six months of this year as it steps up measures to control the illegal entry of citizens into the Spanish...

Published:Monday | July 23, 2018 | 4:14 PM

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – Jamaicans travelling to the Republic of Namibia for business or tourism will not need a visa to do so. The two governments on Monday morning agreed to a visa waiver programme, the first of several agreements...

Published:Monday | July 23, 2018 | 10:29 AM

TORONTO (AP) — A man walked along a Toronto street firing a handgun into restaurants and cafes, shooting 14 people and killing two before dying after an exchange of gunfire with police. Police Chief Mark Saunders did not rule out terrorism as...

Published:Sunday | July 22, 2018 | 12:00 AM

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Dr Keith Rowley-led administration has rejected a notification from the Police Service Commission (PSC) for acting police commissioner, Stephen Williams, to be confirmed in the post.In Parliament on Friday, Rowley...

Published:Friday | July 20, 2018 | 10:29 AM

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Minister of State Joseph Harmon reported that 1,608 persons have been recruited to the resuscitated Guyana People’s Militia. Harmon made the disclosure in the National Assembly, in response to a question...

Published:Thursday | July 19, 2018 | 2:00 PM

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Executive Director of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) Ronald Jackson has urged the Barbados government to reinstate the National Catastrophe Fund, once mechanisms for its use...

Published:Wednesday | July 18, 2018 | 1:08 PM

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC -The Sugar Association of the Caribbean (SAC) is optimistic about the sugar crop across the region despite current drought conditions. In a statement Tuesday, the SAC said the drought has been having an adverse impact on the...

Published:Wednesday | July 18, 2018 | 12:56 PM

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – A judge in The Bahamas imposed various immigration charges on four Jamaican women when they appeared in court on Tuesday. The women -26-year-old Shamara Shantell Francis, Affrikkca Ezinma Walters, 22, Stepheny Alkila...

Published:Tuesday | July 17, 2018 | 2:47 PM

GEORGETOWN, Guyana,  CMC – The Guyana Rice Development Board says there is no need for the country to import rice as local production is adequate to meet local demand. According to the board's General Manager, Nizam Hassan, there is...

Published:Tuesday | July 17, 2018 | 2:28 PM

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Motorists in Barbados who paid their road tax between June 12 and 30, 2018, can now request a refund from Government. This was disclosed by Prime Minister Mia Mottley who said that during a meeting last week,...

Published:Tuesday | July 17, 2018 | 2:21 PM

HAVANA, Cuba, CMC – Damojh Airlines, the Mexican charter company which owns the plane that crashed in Cuba earlier this year, has attributed the tragedy to “human error”. According to the company, data recorders showed the...

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