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Published:Saturday | March 21, 2015 | 12:00 AM

Trade union leaders in Trinidad and Tobago yesterday led supporters in a protest march through the streets of the capital as they seek to get the coalition People’s Partnership government to settle outstanding negotiations before the general...

Published:Wednesday | March 18, 2015 | 12:00 AM

Haiti is worried that the decision by United Nations peacekeepers to pull out of six of the country’s 10 regions could undermine security as the French-speaking CARICOM country gets ready for elections later this year. Fritz Jean-Louis, the...

Published:Monday | March 16, 2015 | 12:00 AM

Cuba's state telecom agency Etecsa has granted approval to an artist Kcho to open the country's first public wireless hub at his cultural centre. Kcho, who has close ties to the Cuban government, is operating the hub using his own,...

Published:Sunday | March 15, 2015 | 12:00 AM

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,CMC – The Communications Workers Union (CWU) Sunday said the Telecommunication Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (TATT) has left the “back door wide open” for the British telecommunication giant, Cable and Wireless...

Published:Sunday | March 15, 2015 | 12:00 AM

NEW YORK, Mar 15, CMC -- A 14-year-old girl allegedly involved in the vicious attack on another teenage girl at a McDonald’s restaurant in Brooklyn has been apprehended in Atlanta, Georgia, just moments away from flying off to Jamaica.The police...

Published:Friday | March 13, 2015 | 12:00 AM

Guyana’s President Donald Ramotar has challenged members of the police to implement a 15-point plan designed to restore confidence in the police force. President Ramotar, who delivered an address at the opening of the annual Officer’s...

Published:Wednesday | March 11, 2015 | 12:00 AM

Barrister, John Masters, has been appointed the new Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) of the Turks and Caicos Islands. Governor of the British Overseas Territory, Peter Beckingham, made the announcement yesterday. Masters will take up the...

Published:Tuesday | March 10, 2015 | 12:00 AM

Police in Trinidad are searching for thieves who stole a quantity of cash and household appliances from the Gender, Youth and Child Development minister, Clifton De Coteau as he slept at his brother’s house over the weekend. The Police say a...

Published:Monday | March 9, 2015 | 1:43 PM

Jamaican investigators probing alleged extrajudicial killings by members of the Royal St Lucia Police Force have found that a blacklist or death list existed. In a radio and television address last night, Prime Minister Dr Kenny Anthony said...

Published:Sunday | March 8, 2015 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON, CMC – President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Luis Alberto Moreno, in his message to mark International Women’s Day, has called for gender equality in the Caribbean and Latin America.“On this International Women's Day, we...

Published:Thursday | March 5, 2015 | 7:54 AM

The Bahamian government says students registering for the new academic year will be required to show that they have a permit authorising them to reside legally in the country. In addition, the students will have to show they are in possession of a...

Published:Wednesday | March 4, 2015 | 3:15 PM

The regional airline, LIAT, says it is banning with immediate effect, the carriage of e-cigarettes in checked luggage and urged regional countries to adopt a united position on the matter. The airline, citing a recommendation from the United States...

Published:Sunday | March 1, 2015 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON, Mar. 1, CMC – Cuba’s spot on the American list of states that sponsor terrorism has emerged as a major sticking point in efforts to restore diplomatic ties with the United States and reopen embassies that have been closed for nearly five...

Published:Sunday | March 1, 2015 | 12:00 AM

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela will shrink the size of the U.S. Embassy staff, limit the activities of U.S. diplomats and require American citizens to apply for visas if they want to come bask on the beach.Speaking before a crowd that rallied...

Published:Friday | February 27, 2015 | 4:21 PM

The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency says it has apprehended ten Caribbean migrants in the waters off Miami. The agency says the migrants, whose nationalities were not identified, were nabbed after agents deployed warning...

Published:Thursday | February 26, 2015 | 12:05 PM

The Joint Trade Union Movement has warned the coalition People’s Partnership government in Trinidad and Tobago to settle all outstanding labour disputes before the country elects a new government later this year. The union, which has...

Published:Wednesday | February 25, 2015 | 2:04 PM

Guyanese president Donald Ramotar says the National assembly will be dissolved on Saturday, as Guyana prepares for a general election on May 11. In a radio and television broadcast last night, Ramotar recalled he had prorogued the parliament last...

Published:Tuesday | February 24, 2015 | 12:21 PM

Authorities in St Vincent and the Grenadines are seeking to ensure that the merger between British telecommunications giant, Cable and Wireless Communication and Columbus Communication will not seriously affect local customers. Permanent...

Published:Monday | February 23, 2015 | 12:00 AM

The Caribbean country of Guyana is in mourning following the weekend tragedy in which a teacher and six students were killed when the car in which they were travelling plunged into a canal along East Coast Demerara.

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

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Feb.22, CMC – The future of the Petrocaribe initiative is expected to be high on the agenda during bi-lateral talks between Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Energy Minister Kevin Ramnarine and Prime Minister Kamla...

Published:Sunday | February 15, 2015 | 6:22 PM

On Friday, the board of directors from the St Lucia Hotel and Tourism Association (SLHTA) ended a round of talks with representatives of the World Bank.

Published:Sunday | February 15, 2015 | 12:07 PM

On Monday, the US will celebrate President's Day. Every year the USCIS marks the holiday with a week of special naturalization ceremonies across the country.

Published:Sunday | February 15, 2015 | 10:07 AM

The coalition will face the ruling People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) for the elections that had been called more than one year ahead of the constitutional deadline.

Published:Friday | February 13, 2015 | 2:28 PM

Patrick Manning, who failed to show up for screening by his People's National Movement (PNM) on Wednesday, wrote to his political leader Dr Keith Rowley, giving reasons for his decision.

Published:Friday | February 13, 2015 | 12:42 PM

Two pieces of gender neutral legislation will soon be rolled out to make the working environment in Barbados more comfortable, safe and inclusive.

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