Caribbean

HAMILTON, Bermuda (CMC):The Bermuda Regiment is expected to end training camps in Jamaica because of tighter financial constraints, a senior official has said.For years, the regiment has alternated camps between North Carolina's Camp Lejeune and the...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): A Caribbean law expert yesterday categorised many of the region's laws dealing with children as being outdated and not adequate in dealing with a range of social issues confronting that vulnerable segment of the...

KINGSTOWN (CMC): Teenage pregnancy continues to be a major concern for the Ministry of Health, with eight girls between the ages of 11 and 14 years giving birth in 2012, Health Minister Clayton Burgin told Parliament...

Home Affairs Minister, Adriel Brathwaite says the issue is proving to be a major headache for the authorities.

Premier Craig Cannonier said the overall saving was relatively small, but in the country's present economic and fiscal circumstances, it is the right thing to do.

Information Minister Ernesto Villegas says Chavez's condition continues to be very delicate.

WASHINGTON (CMC):A major think tank has made claims that Cuba is concealing an outbreak of cholera.The Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) said while only two deaths have occurred in recent weeks on the island, out of...

Former attorney general Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj, in a radio broadcast, disputed statements by Prime Minister Persad Bissessar that she did not know of the existence of the squad.

PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC):A pastor with the Seventh-day Adventist Church is claiming that Latin American assassins are operating in Trinidad and Tobago and called for an all out war on crime."We have Latin American assassins in this country.

NASSAU CMC:Law-enforcement officials say they have apprehended nearly 100 illegal Haitian immigrants after landing at Landrail Point in Crooked Island.Police said that they have so far detained 92 people and "along with residents are continuing their...

Castro, who is 81-years- old formally assumed the presidency in 2008, two years after replacing his ailing brother Fidel.