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An autopsy is expected to be performed today on the body of a 19-year-old man, who was found dead in Central Trinidad.

QUITO, Ecuador (AP):Ecuador's highest court yesterday upheld a criminal libel verdict favouring President Rafael Correa, sentencing three newspaper executives and a columnist to three years in prison each and ordering them to pay a total of $42 million...

COMAYAGUA (AP): The prisoners whose scorched bodies were carried out piece by piece yesterday from a charred Honduran prison, had been locked inside an overcrowded penitentiary where most inmates had never been...

The St. Lucia government has warned promoters that it will be putting in place stringent measures, to ensure that visiting artistes conform to the laws of the country.

The National Bureau of Statistics is reporting that despite economic growth, poverty has risen in Nigeria, with almost 100 million people living on less than a $1 a day.

Trinidad’s Attorney General, Anand Ramlogan has distanced himself from a police unit’s search of the Newsday newspaper offices in Port of Spain and one of its reporter’s home on Thursday.

The International Monetary Fund, IMF, says there is concrete evidence to suggest that Trinidad and Tobago’s economy is turning the corner and will grow by one point seven per cent this year.

Montserrat is moving closer towards an economic windfall it is hoping to gain by exploiting geothermal energy from the active Soufriere Hills volcano.

Former Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Patrick Manning has been flown to the United States, to seek further medical treatment amid concerns by his family about the care he was receiving in his country.

Bermuda’s Premier Paula Cox has reportedly offered to take a pay cut in exchange for a new pay deal for civil servants.

A ferry carrying about 300 passengers has gone missing off the north coast of Papua New Guinea.

CASTRIES (CMC):Newly elected Prime Minister Kenny Anthony was scheduled to arrive last night for a visit that will include talks with Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, herself newly returned to office, according to a government statement released...