Caribbean

A senior Trinidad and Tobago government minister says a lack of agreement on key issues is preventing the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) from effectively functioning.

St. Kitts and Nevis Tourism Minister Richard Skerritt is urging regional governments to help the Barbados-based low cost carrier, REDEjet, return to the skies.

Transport Minister Devant Maharaj has turned down a request by officials from the Barbados-based low-budget carrier REDjet for a meeting weeks after the airline suspended its services.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid in Haiti says at least six people were killed due to floods from two days of rainfall.

The police are probing the death of a two year-old girl, who is suspected of being sexually and physically abused before she was taken to the Siparia hospital on Easter Sunday.

A woman retrieves usable items from the smoking debris left after a previous night's fire destroyed several dozen family tents and makeshift dwellings, at one of the many camps for people displaced by the 2010 earthquake, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti,...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was scheduled to return to Cuba today for a third round of radiotherapy to treat a recurrence of his cancer.

NASSAU (CMC):The Bahamas has established a national task force on trafficking in persons (TIP) as it seeks to enhance its responsiveness to "what is today regarded as one of the most significant and quickly growing illegal criminal activities taking...

SAN JUAN (AP):The Pentagon said yesterday it is ready to resume a trial at Guantanamo Bay for the acknowledged mastermind of the September 11 attacks and four other men, more than two years after President Barack Obama halted the case in an ultimately...

A new study by scientists has linked the decline of Caribbean coral reefs to overfishing and deforestation in addition to human-induced climate change.

Six people have died in strong rains that destroyed their hillside homes, says Haitian official.

A top Cuban official disclosed yesterday that there are no prospects for political change on the communist-run island despite Pope Benedict XVI's appeals for "renewal" and "a better society"...