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Antigua Government chides union for encouraging bank workers strike

Published:Tuesday | May 12, 2015 | 10:39 AM

The Government of Antigua & Barbuda has accused one of the country’s largest trade unions of trying to deliberately mislead bank employees into taking industrial action over the recently passed Banking Act. The Antigua &...

Diplomats, business people flood Cuba amid warmer US ties

Published:Sunday | May 10, 2015 | 12:00 AM

HAVANA (AP) — Tourists in shorts and sandals aren't the only foreigners flooding Havana these days.Top diplomats from Japan, the European Union, Italy, the Netherlands and Russia have visited the island in recent months in bids to stake out or...

Castro: This Pope is so impressive, I might return to church

Published:Sunday | May 10, 2015 | 12:00 AM

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Cuban President Raul Castro paid a call on Pope Francis at the Vatican Sunday to thank him for working for Cuban-US detente and later said he is so impressed by the pontiff he is considering a return to the Catholic church's...

Dust from Sahara desert blankets sections of the Caribbean

Published:Thursday | April 30, 2015 | 12:00 AM

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (CMC): Dust particles from sand storms in the Sahara desert have blanketed sections of the Caribbean, affecting air quality in the region. Each year, Saharan dust storms pass through the region, usually in the spring and...

Guyana appoints new health minister

Published:Thursday | April 30, 2015 | 12:00 AM

Guyana's President Donald Ramotar has named Dr Jennifer Westford as the country's new Health Minister after the appointment of Dr Bheri Ramsaran was revoked. A brief statement from the Office of the President, said Ramsaran, who had been...

Dominica: Judge warns of child abuse epidemic

Published:Wednesday | April 29, 2015 | 12:00 AM

A High Court judge has warned of a growing epidemic of child abuse in Dominica as he sentenced a 36-year-old man to eight years in prison for having sex with three minors. Justice Errol Thomas said that he was outraged and dismayed at the behaviour...

Bahamas government investigates sexual misconduct involving four students at school

Published:Wednesday | April 22, 2015 | 9:49 AM

The Bahamas government says it views sexual misconduct within schools very seriously. The government is currently investigating an allegation of an incident of sexual misconduct involving four students including one female. The Ministry of...

Caribbean, Central America formalise partnership for catastrophe risk insurance

Published:Sunday | April 19, 2015 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON, CMC – The Council of Ministers of Finance of Central America, Panama and the Dominican Republic (COSEFIN) and CCRIF SPC, formerly the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility, on Saturday signed a memorandum of understanding that...

Taiwan finances ICT project in St Lucia

Published:Sunday | April 19, 2015 | 12:00 AM

CASTRIES, St.Lucia, Apr. 19, CMC - Taiwan is continuing to assist St Lucia ‎with the financing of a major project aimed at expanding access to technology across the country.Taiwanese Ambassador James Chang, Friday presented Prime Minister Kenny...

France makes record cocaine bust in the Caribbean

Published:Sunday | April 19, 2015 | 12:00 AM

PARIS, Apr.19, CMC – French customs officers seized a record 2.25 tons of cocaine when they raided a yacht off the coast of the French Caribbean island of Martinique.On Saturday, the French authorities reported that a vessel was intercepted. The...

Marriott Hotel opens in Guyana in public/private sector partnership

Published:Thursday | April 16, 2015 | 12:00 AMSenior Gleaner Writer

GEORGETOWN, Guyana: In a private/public sector partnership, Guyana has opened its first Marriott Hotel  in the centre of the capital Gerogetown. Guyana's President, Donald Ramotar and Marriott's executive vice president, Brenda Durham...

Montserrat seeking accession to Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas

Published:Tuesday | April 14, 2015 | 12:00 AM

The Montserrat government says it is seeking accession to the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas that governs the 15-member regional integration grouping, CARICOM. Montserrat is the only non-independent member of CARICOM, which it help to established....

Suriname apologises for arrest attempt at Guyanese embassy

Published:Sunday | April 12, 2015 | 12:00 AM

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Suriname’s Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Lackin has apologised to his Guyanese counterpart Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, for an attempt by police to arrest a staff member on the premises of the Guyana Embassy in Suriname’s...

Barbados PTA considers writing to gov’t as teachers threaten to withhold grades

Published:Monday | April 6, 2015 | 12:00 AM

The National Council of Parent-Teachers’ Associations (PTA) in Barbados says it plans to write to the Ministry of Education and the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) as efforts continue to find a solution to end the action taken by...

T&T Opposition ahead in latest poll

Published:Sunday | April 5, 2015 | 12:00 AM

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Apr. 5, CMC – The main opposition People’s National Movement (PNM) is currently leading in a poll published on Sunday that was commissioned by the Trinidad Express newspaper.The poll puts the PNM ahead at 31 per cent and the...

UAE company offers Antigua passports with property purchase

Published:Sunday | April 5, 2015 | 12:00 AM

ABU DHABI, CMC - Property developers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are offering potential new home owners passports for Antigua and Barbuda, opening up fresh avenues for visa-free travel to a wide array of countries for Emirati citizens,...

Non-profit group provides ‘safe food’ for rural schools in Haiti

Published:Sunday | April 5, 2015 | 12:00 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – A non-profit group here has been providing “safe food” to children in rural schools in Haiti, according to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).“Every day at lunchtime, dozens of children pour into a newly built...

Cuba's Fidel Castro makes rare public appearance

Published:Sunday | April 5, 2015 | 12:00 AM

HAVANA, Apr 5, CMC – Former Cuban President Fidel Castro made a surprise appearance in public last week, greeting a group of Venezuelan visitors as they toured a school here.A report, published in the official Cuban newspaper on Friday, showed...

St Lucia gov't urged to remove VAT on food items

Published:Sunday | March 29, 2015 | 12:00 AM

CASTRIES, St.Lucia, CMC – The two opposition parties here have urged the government to consider removing Value Added Tax (VAT) on all food items.Leader of the Lucian Peoples Movement (LPM), Therold Prudent, said if the government takes such a step,...

Haitian man to pay over US$7,000 in plane seat row

Published:Sunday | March 29, 2015 | 12:00 AM

BOSTON, CMC – A Haitian man has been ordered to pay over US$7,000 in the aftermath of an incident that led to a flight being diverted when he reacted angrily to a seat being reclined in front of him.The case was part of a series of three incidents...

Jamaicans among 200 immigrants convicted of sex crimes in the US

Published:Sunday | March 29, 2015 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON, CMC – The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) agency has listed Jamaicans among scores of Caribbean nationals who have been convicted of sex crimes in the United States.

The ICE says about 200 immigrants who have been convicted of sex crimes under a Sex Offender Registration (SOR) initiative that started...

St Vincent's ULP celebrates 14th anniversary in office

Published:Sunday | March 29, 2015 | 12:00 AM

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC - The ruling Unity Labour Party (ULP) celebrated its 14th anniversary in office with a mass rally Saturday in Calliaqua, a town east of the capital, with many of the speeches being a celebration of the party leader, Prime...

Former T&T attorneys general call for police probe into payments to lawyers

Published:Wednesday | March 25, 2015 | 12:00 AM

Two former Trinidadian attorneys general have called for a police and forensic investigation into payments totalling $353 million by the office. The money was paid out to lawyers over a four-year period when Anand Ramlogan was attorney general....

Educator urges St Lucia government to carefully screen investors

Published:Sunday | March 22, 2015 | 12:00 AM

CASTRIES, St.Lucia - General Secretary of the Caribbean Union of Teachers (CUT), Dr. Virginia Albert-Poyotte, has called on authorities here to take steps to reassure the rest of the world that this country is committed to adequately screening...

Energy investors heading to the Caribbean

Published:Sunday | March 22, 2015 | 12:00 AM

NEW YORK, CMC – An increasing number of investors are heading to the Caribbean as regional countries look for new sources of energy.The energy landscape in the United States has transformed radically in the last few years, and its neighbors have,...

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