Spain’s Public Works Minister, Ana Pastor, has held an emergency meeting with Panamanian President, Ricardo Martinelli, as part of efforts to resolve a dispute over expansion work at the Panama Canal.
Trinidad’s National Security Minister Gary Griffith has hit back at critics of his crime fighting plans and policies, declaring that he has only just started.
Gwen Goodwin, 52, who lost the Democratic primary to New York City Council Member Melissa Mark-Viverito in September, says her nemesis targeted her East Harlem building
Aides to Boehner say he is committed to “step by step” moves to revise the immigration laws. In giving immigration advocates new hope for 2014, the House Speaker has hired Rebecca Tallent.
Britain is providing EC$1 million for vital emergency humanitarian support to St Vincent and the Grenadines and St Lucia following the widespread destruction and deaths caused by a low level trough ...
A 65-year-old man who vanished from a Canadian cruise ship that departed Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Sunday and has port calls in Jamaica and Haiti is suspected to have fallen off the boat.
In expressing his condolences to families of the 18 people killed during the hazard, New York City Councilman, Jumaane Williams said everything should be done to help survivors recover and rebuild.
A new United Nations report says economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean declined this year but is predicted to improve over the next two years.
“The exercise of excessive deportation is inhumane and flies in the face of the values and morals of a nation established by immigrants for immigrants. We cannot allow this exercise to continue.”
The NY-based Consul General said nine lives were lost, five people still missing, and 64 persons remain in shelters. In addition, the envoy said a number of houses, roads and bridges were destroyed.
Several communities remained cut-off up to yesterday evening, as Vincentians continued to count their losses as a result of a slow moving low level trough that battered the island.
In a release from the OAS, José Miguel Insulza expressed his deep sorrow over the loss of life and severe damage caused by unseasonably heavy rainfall over the last 48 hours.
Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Kamla Persad Bissessar called for the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management to mobilise foodstuff and emergency supplies to be sent to St Lucia.
Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force says another attempt will be made today to find additional casualties from yesterday’s incident where a vessel carrying Haitian migrants capsised.
