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Published:Thursday | November 22, 2012 | 1:31 PM

Sixty-two year-old John F. Kelly, is now at the helm of the military command, known as Southcom.

Published:Thursday | November 22, 2012 | 9:01 AM

St Lucia deputy Prime Minister Phillip J. Pierre has been hospitalised, following complaints of being unwell.

Published:Thursday | November 22, 2012 | 12:00 AM

UNITED NATIONS (CMC): United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed what he describes as progress made by Belize and Guatemala under the auspices of the Organization of American States (OAS) to resolve their long-standing territorial dispute.

Published:Thursday | November 22, 2012 | 12:00 AM

BRIDGETOWN (CMC):A 22-year-old Trinidadian, Cornelius Neale, has been named the 2013 Commonwealth Caribbean Rhodes Scholar.Governor General Sir Elliott Belgrave, the chairperson of the Commonwealth Caribbean Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee, said...

Published:Thursday | November 22, 2012 | 12:00 AM

BRIDGETOWN (CMC):The number of children born with the deadly HIV declined significantly in the Caribbean during the period 2009 and 2011, according to the 2012 global report by UNAIDS.The report noted that the Caribbean, which has the second-highest...

Published:Wednesday | November 21, 2012 | 12:00 AM

PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC): A Commission of Inquiry probing the events of the 1990 unsuccessful coup against the Trinidad and Tobago government has formally written to the dire...

Published:Wednesday | November 21, 2012 | 12:00 AM

TELL initiative gives abused children a voice GEORGETOWN (CMC): Guyana has launched an initiative aimed at encouraging children to disclose any form of sexual violence towards them.The TELL Scheme project will also provide education designed to promote...

Published:Wednesday | November 21, 2012 | 12:00 AM

ST JOHN'S (CMC):A 28-year-old Jamaican woman faces the possibility of two years in jail if she fails to pay EC$36,000 (One EC dollar =US$0.37 cents) by the end of the week, after she was found guilty of smuggling...

Published:Sunday | November 18, 2012 | 12:00 AM

ST GEORGE:Grenada's Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Tillman Thomas has welcomed a policy decision by the European Commission (EC) to allow Grenadians to travel to the Schengen area without needing a visa.Thomas said last Friday the...

Published:Sunday | November 18, 2012 | 12:00 AM

HAVANA (AP):Adela Hernandez, a biologically male Cuban has lived as a female since childhood.

Published:Sunday | November 18, 2012 | 12:00 AM

Two more murders in Trinidad late last week pushed the country's murder toll to 348.

Published:Sunday | November 18, 2012 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):An American imprisoned in Cuba for nearly three years is suing his former Maryland employer and the United States (US) government for US$60 million, saying they didn't adequately train him or disclose risks he was undertaking by doing development work on the Communist island.

Published:Sunday | November 18, 2012 | 12:00 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP):An unidentified man was shot dead last Friday while students staged another demonstration in a week of small but raucous street protests in the capital's downtown

Published:Wednesday | November 14, 2012 | 2:34 PM

The photo was also being circulated in Jamaica earlier this week and the local police issued a similar warning.

Published:Wednesday | November 14, 2012 | 1:52 PM

The candidates of the United Workers Party are challenging the nomination of Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit and his Education Minister, Peter St Jean to contest the 2009 general election.

Published:Wednesday | November 7, 2012 | 12:00 AM

KINGSTON (CMC):Jamaica's Agriculture and fisheries minister, Roger Clarke, says substantial new resources, ideas and new ways of doing business are needed to address the challenges of climate change in the region.

Published:Wednesday | November 7, 2012 | 12:00 AM

ROME (CMC):The Bahamas has called on the international law enforcement community to help the Caribbean deal with the illegal drugs trade, warning that despite regional efforts to curb the shipment of illegal drugs the trade has left behind a culture of...

Published:Wednesday | November 7, 2012 | 12:00 AM

HAVANA (AP):The United Nations yesterday announced a humanitarian aid mission to eastern Cuba in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, saying it could end up being the most damaging storm to hit that part of the island in 50 years.

Published:Wednesday | October 31, 2012 | 12:00 AM

KINGSTON, (AP):Jamaican police have detained roughly 100 men in a troubled city following the slaying of a woman by a pair of gunmen.The men were interrogated yesterday by police detectives, a couple of days after...

Published:Wednesday | October 31, 2012 | 12:00 AM

SAN JUAN, (AP):A group of masked men kidnapped a six-year-old boy yesterday in a working class neighbourhood of the Puerto Rican capital, the FBI said.The four assailants fled with the child, identified as Alfry Infante Perez, in a grey Jeep Cherokee.

Published:Wednesday | October 31, 2012 | 12:00 AM

SAN JUAN, (AP):Authorities in Puerto Rico have charged a 20-year-old woman with killing her baby immediately after giving birth. Police Captain Diana Crispin says Teresa Peraza Maldonado had been hiding her pregnancy...

Published:Wednesday | October 31, 2012 | 12:00 AM

ST LUCIA CASTRIES, (CMC):St Lucia marked the second anniversary of the passage of Hurricane Tomas yesterday with Prime Minister Dr Kenny Anthony saying that October 30 must always remained etched in the minds of citizens."I urge St Lucians to take a...

Published:Sunday | October 28, 2012 | 12:07 PM

Forty four Haitians have been declared dead due to Hurricane Sandy.
Prime Minister Laurent Lamonthe has called the situation

Published:Sunday | October 28, 2012 | 11:31 AM

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) is to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the United States-based National Centre for State Courts (NCSC).

Published:Monday | October 22, 2012 | 12:00 AM

HAVANA (AP): Fidel Castro has appeared in public for the first time in months, a top hotel executive told The Associated Press on Sunday, challenging persistent rumours that the aging revolutionary is near death....

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