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Published:Tuesday | September 11, 2012 | 5:10 PM

Trinidad and Tobago’s National Security Minister Austin “Jack” Warner says he has completed a plan to deal with the escalating crime in the country.

Published:Monday | September 10, 2012 | 12:03 PM

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Haiti says there is a slight increase in the number of Cholera cases.

Published:Friday | September 7, 2012 | 9:30 AM

Guyana's former police commissioner Henry Greene has died following a three-vehicle accident at Waller's Delight, West Coast Demerara.

Published:Monday | September 3, 2012 | 2:03 PM

Several members of the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force rugby team are now receiving medical treatment after a military truck transporting them overturned last night.

Published:Monday | September 3, 2012 | 12:00 AM

GEORGETOWN (AP):The office of Guyanese President Donald Ramotar says that a team of Caribbean leaders will investigate a police shooting that allegedly left three people dead and 20 others injured.He says the incident will be probed by former Jamaican...

Published:Monday | September 3, 2012 | 12:00 AM

BAYAMO (CMC):Cuban authorities have inexplicably delayed the trial of the Spanish politician charged with causing the death of Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá.

Published:Friday | August 31, 2012 | 1:25 PM

A 19-year-old has been charged with the murder of a 17-year-old schoolgirl in St. Lucia.

Published:Wednesday | August 29, 2012 | 11:07 AM

Prime Minister of Grenada Tillman Thomas has made another effort to save his government. In a national broadcast aired last night, Prime Minister Thomas addressed the filing of a second motion of no confidence against his government.

Published:Tuesday | August 28, 2012 | 9:53 AM

he Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling that that the 2011 election in the District of St. John’s was invalid and void.

Published:Monday | August 27, 2012 | 5:37 PM

The death toll from Haiti’s encounter with Tropical Storm Isaac over the weekend has climbed to 19.

Published:Monday | August 27, 2012 | 2:36 PM

Prime Minister Persad Bissessar said in a brief statement that she had advised President Professor George Maxwell Richards to revoke the appointment of Minister Collin Partap with immediate effect.

Published:Sunday | August 26, 2012 | 5:55 PM

Embattled Grenadian Prime Minister Tillman Thomas has been holding meetings with his close political allies pondering his next move

Published:Sunday | August 26, 2012 | 12:45 PM

Trinidad’s former prime minister Patrick Manning has been released from hospital. He was released yesterday after suffering a seizure early last week.

Published:Wednesday | August 22, 2012 | 12:00 AM

BEIJING (CMC): A senior Barbados government minister has told an international health conference that a quarter of all adult nationals in his country have at least one chronic disease and the figure could...

Published:Wednesday | August 22, 2012 | 12:00 AM

MIAMI (CMC): Several Caribbean countries were placed under a tropical warning yesterday, as a tropical depression moved into the Lesser Antilles and emerge over the Eastern Caribbean Sea by tomorrow.The Miami-based...

Published:Monday | August 20, 2012 | 12:00 AM

BRIDGETOWN (CMC):Some of the most creative minds in Caribbean and international tourism will come together to seek a solution to the challenges facing intra-regional transportation. With intra-regional travel beset by high fares and inadequate access...

Published:Monday | August 20, 2012 | 12:00 AM

GEORGETOWN (CMC): The Ministry of Labour is seeking to establish a national minimum wage for all workers by 2013...

Published:Monday | August 20, 2012 | 12:00 AM

HAMILTON (CMC): As Bermuda continues to grapple with its financial crisis, three supermarkets under the same ownership were forced to close their doors and, as a result, more than 80 persons are now unemployed....

Published:Sunday | August 19, 2012 | 12:06 PM

A Spanish politician accused of the deaths of Cuban dissidents Oswaldo Payá and Harold Cepero will go on trial August 31 on a charge of vehicular homicide.

Published:Wednesday | August 15, 2012 | 12:00 AM

KINGSTON (CMC): National Security Minister Peter Bunting says he is encouraged by reports of fewer murders in Jamaica so far this month, and is hoping that the trend continues to the end of the year....

Published:Wednesday | August 15, 2012 | 12:00 AM

NASSAU (CMC): Law-enforcement officials said they have seized 125 pounds of cocaine and more than 2,700 pounds of marijuana so far this year, adding that this is due to the introduction of the Project Safe Bahamas initiative.

Published:Wednesday | August 15, 2012 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (CMC):A study released by the United States government indicates that one in six illegal Caribbean immigrants is rearrested on criminal charges three years after being released from jail....

Published:Sunday | August 12, 2012 | 12:12 PM

Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar Saturday declared west Trinidad a disaster zone as heavy rains occasioned by the passage of a tropical depression killed two people and caused widespread damage

Published:Sunday | August 12, 2012 | 10:36 AM

Prime Minister of Antigua Baldwin Spencer has recommended that the regional airline, LIAT, name one of its aircraft after Grenada’s Olympic 400-metre gold medallist Kirani James.

Published:Friday | August 3, 2012 | 12:00 AM

METETI (AP):Led by smugglers armed with knives and machetes, Mayra Reyes and 14 other Cubans sloshed through swamps and rivers and suffered hordes of mosquitoes as they struggled across the notorious Darien Gap between Panama and Colombia, the only...

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