GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – State Minister Joseph Harmon says the recent move by the Mellon National Bank in the United States to partner with the local Citizens Bank is a sure sign of the confidence reposed in Guyana’s investment...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former national security minister, Gary Griffith, has backed the decision of the Trinidad and Tobago government to investigate whether or not the British-based political consulting firm, Cambridge Analytica...
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Three foreign nationals, including two students of an offshore university, drowned while bathing at a beach in the southern town of Vieux Fort yesterday. Police say all three were nationals from India...
NEW YORK, CMC – The police have charged a New York-based immigration attorney with asylum fraud after she allegedly submitted fraudulent forms for over 180 clients. According to Geoffrey S. Berman, the US Attorney for the Southern District of...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC –Police have a charged a man with plotting with other people to murder his 35-year-old wife, even as he remains in prison on a separate charge against the woman. Police allege that Emerson Delplesche...
A Colombian church has donated 250,000 wafers to Venezuela's Catholic Church, which has struggled to buy its own because a shortage of flour. The diocese of the city of Cucuta, which is on the border between the two countries, donated the...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The Organization of American States (OAS) says it has collaborated with the United Nations World Trade Organization (UNWTO) in launching a seminal report on tourism in the Americas, including the Caribbean. On Friday, the...
SANTO DOMINIGO, Dominican Republic, CMC – The Dominican Republic has formally requested the extradition of two brothers who have been accused of murdering a farmer and his wife earlier this month. The authorities said that the Haitians were...
The Public Service Association in Antigua has accused the outgoing Antigua and Barbuda government of seeking to intimidate its members after Prime Minister Gaston Browne accompanied by the Social Transformation Minister, Samantha Marshall, turned...
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell has led the ruling New National Party to another election win. Mitchell's party has so far been declared the winner in 12 of the 15 constituencies. The party, which won all 15...
The National Disaster Management Agency in Grenada, has raised the alert level for the underwater volcano, Kick ‘em Jenny from yellow to orange because the activities have increased. The agency says it has been working with the Trinidad-based...
Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has defended his decision not to announce a date for the general election when his administration allowed the Parliament to be automatically dissolved on March 6. Addressing a meeting of his ruling Democratic...
SANTA CLARA, Cuba (AP) — Cuba today took the final political step before a promised transition from the founders of the Communist state to a younger generation of officials. Along with millions of Cubans, 57-year-old vice president Miguel...
The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) has launched new guidelines aimed at helping Caribbean and other countries end the “reign” of the tobacco industry. WHO said the new guidelines, together with an accompanying...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – A day after recalling its United Nations ambassador for consultations in protest over a UN official’s remarks about oil-loan corruption allegations, the Haitian government has cancelled its...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean (ECLAC) says government delegates from countries that are negotiating a regional agreement regarding access to environmental information, participation and justice...
Published:Wednesday | February 21, 2018 | 12:00 AM
Forty-five political candidates have been nominated to contest the March 13 general election in Grenada. The majority of the candidates will represent the ruling New National Party (NNP) and the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC)....
The police in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) are investigating the discovery of marijuana in boxes of imported baby products. The BVI police report that the packages entered the country late last week through a well-known multinational courier...
Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves of St Vincent and the Grenadines has stepped down from the Monetary Council of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB). This paves the way for his son – the new Vincentian Minister of Finance Camillo...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC): A court has ordered gardener, Danroy Small, to pay EC$500 (EC$1=US$0.37 in compensation to journalist, Kenton X. Chance after he was found guilty of assaulting the journalist. Small struck Chance, the...
HAMILTON, Bermuda (CMC): Maurice Martin, a 34-year-old Jamaican national, who survived a 2010 shooting that killed his friend, has been cleared by a Supreme Court of a plot to import fentanyl into Bermuda with two Canadians. Justice Charles-Etta...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – An autopsy is scheduled to be performed on the body of an eight year old boy who died yesterday from injuries he received when he was beaten with an iron pipe. The police report that yesterday afternoon, Ishmeel...
BELMOPAN, Belize (CMC): A High Court judge has ordered a banker to pay a BDS$15,000 (One Belize dollar=US$0, 49 cents) fine after he was convicted of unlawful harm through negligence of a firearm in the accidental death of his friend, who was shot...
SANTO DOMINIGO, Dominican Republic (CMC): Dominican Republic authorities say they have detained more than 250 Haitian nationals and seized a number of illegal documents during raids in several areas including the city. They said the raids during...
TAIPEI, CMC – Contrary to media reports, neither the president nor vice president of Taiwan is planning to visit the country’s diplomatic allies in Africa and the Caribbean soon, the Taiwan's Presidential Office said yesterday. The...
