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Published:Monday | March 17, 2014 | 1:09 PM

A 23-year-old Jamaican man is now on the run in Trinidad and Tobago after escaping police custody. The police say he was held on Friday on suspicion of being an illegal immigrant.

Published:Sunday | March 16, 2014 | 12:08 PM

The ICE reported that on February 1, 2010, I Cabrera-Mesa “possessed, and shipped to the Dominican Republic a Remington Model 760 Gamemaster .30-06 rifle, along with numerous rounds of ammunition.”

Published:Saturday | March 15, 2014 | 7:08 PM

The police say a 12-year-old girl turned up at the Port Kaituma Police Station and reported that her father and mother were involved in an argument and he had threatened to burn down their house.

Published:Saturday | March 15, 2014 | 11:23 AM

Dunkley said debate on marijuana in several US states and elsewhere had been looked at in Bermuda, although he said information from overseas had to be analysed carefully.

Published:Friday | March 14, 2014 | 12:54 PM

The United States Customs and Border Protection Agency says it has arrested two Bahamian men suspected of smuggling seven migrants, including Haitians, into the country.

Published:Thursday | March 13, 2014 | 8:55 AM

The European Union has indicated it will provide 2.5 million Euros towards the fight against drug trafficking and international criminal networks in the Caribbean.

Published:Wednesday | March 12, 2014 | 11:06 AM

The Antigua Trades and Labour Union says the workers who have taken industrial action since last week, had been informing the union about the police investigation.

Published:Tuesday | March 11, 2014 | 12:01 PM

A group of 15 Jamaicans had been arrested in recent times in operations supported by the US Drug Enforcement Administration, while five others were apprehended at the end of last year.

Published:Tuesday | March 11, 2014 | 10:32 AM

Trinidad’s Land and Marine Resources Minister, Jairam Seemungal, says squatting is still a challenge for his ministry, which also has to manage some 60,000 regularised squatters.

Published:Monday | March 10, 2014 | 10:10 AM

An autopsy revealed the baby’s head was cut so deeply that it penetrated the brain and damaged the tissue during the surgery performed at the Mt Hope Women’s Hospital on Carnival Saturday.

Published:Sunday | March 9, 2014 | 12:12 PM

The group was sent back yesterday less than 48 hours after a High Court in Trinidad dismissed an application for a habeas corpus writ to have them released from detention.

Published:Sunday | March 9, 2014 | 10:30 AM

He was sentenced to two years of probation, to include six months of home confinement, following his October 3, 2013 guilty pleas.

Published:Saturday | March 8, 2014 | 2:48 PM

Researchers with a Caribbean trade bloc have found that decriminalising marijuana and exploring its use for medicinal purposes could help boost the region's sluggish economy.

Published:Saturday | March 8, 2014 | 9:25 AM

The Grenada parliament has approved increased fines for foreign vessels fishing illegally in local waters.

Published:Friday | March 7, 2014 | 1:09 PM

LIAT chairman Jean Holder says he has been trying to persuade people to invest and has met with a number of governments and Prime Ministers.

Published:Thursday | March 6, 2014 | 9:04 AM

The 15-member CARICOM grouping says it is deeply concerned about the ongoing political developments in Ukraine.

Published:Wednesday | March 5, 2014 | 12:28 PM

Anil Mandall claims, in court papers, that the alleged libel was calculated to cause and did cause him great public embarrassment and held him up to ridicule both nationally and internationally.

Published:Tuesday | March 4, 2014 | 8:42 AM

Forty-year-old George Lynch was shot dead outside a house in Hamilton Parish in May 2010.

Published:Monday | March 3, 2014 | 9:24 AM

Chikungunya is a mosquito-borne viral disease causing symptoms such as fever, joint pain, muscle pain, headache and nose and gum bleeding.

Published:Sunday | March 2, 2014 | 5:49 PM

The ECDPC said in the past week, 293 new cases of chikungunya have been reported in the region, with confirmed ones in St. Martin (French), Martinique, St. Barthélemy and Guadeloupe.

Published:Sunday | March 2, 2014 | 1:14 PM

According to the criminal complaint, William Vergara-Alamo began text messaging with a 14-year-old girl, identified as Jane Doe, after she mistakenly called his cellphone.

Published:Sunday | March 2, 2014 | 10:32 AM

Under the new legislation, the Canadian government will have the authority to develop regulations to designate a regulatory body whose members would be authorized to act as consultants on citizenship

Published:Saturday | March 1, 2014 | 12:31 PM

It comes days after St Lucia’s Prime Minister Dr Kenny Anthony urged regional countries to take seriously recent predictions by scientists that the Caribbean could be hit by a major earthquake ...

Published:Friday | February 28, 2014 | 4:19 PM

Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados, Dr Delisle Worrell , is urging Caribbean countries with fixed currencies, not to entertain the thought of any devaluation as a means of restoring stability ..

Published:Thursday | February 27, 2014 | 9:58 AM

Forty-six-year-old Patrick George Hanson, appeared at the District B Magistrate Court yesterday and pleaded guilty to the offences.

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