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Published:Wednesday | October 26, 2011 | 12:00 AM

TORTOLA (CMC): The Electoral Office says 43 candidates have been nominated to contest the November 7 general election.Supervisor of Election Juliette Penn said 43 candidates were nominated on Monday as compared with 40 in 2007.Premier Ralph O'Neal said...

Published:Wednesday | October 26, 2011 | 12:00 AM

SAN JUAN (AP):Police in the Dominican Republic have been responsible for an alarming number of killings and torture over a five-year period, Amnesty International said in a report released yesterday.The report, titled 'Shut up if you don't want to be...

Published:Wednesday | October 26, 2011 | 12:00 AM

BASSETERRE (CMC): The 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) says the killing of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi marks the end of a "painful and tumultuous chapter" for Libyans who have endured a protracted conflict in that country over the past eight months.

Published:Wednesday | October 26, 2011 | 12:00 AM

ROSEAU (CMC) : Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit yesterday criticised opposition legislators who continue to boycott the sitting of the Dominica parliament, saying they were obtaining a salary under false pretence.

Published:Monday | October 24, 2011 | 11:08 AM

MIAMI, CMC – Attorneys here have filed a federal suit arguing that scores of American students who were born in the United States as children of undocumented Caribbean and other immigrants are being wrongly denied the right to pay in-state tuition at Flor

Published:Monday | October 24, 2011 | 11:04 AM

LIMA, Peru, CMC – The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) says Latin America and Caribbean countries continue to use official advertising to reward or punish news media as they seek to hinder the free flow of information of information.

Published:Monday | October 24, 2011 | 11:02 AM

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit Monday said that “extra judicial killings should never be supported or promoted” as he denounced the manner in which the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was killed last week following his captu

Published:Thursday | October 20, 2011 | 11:11 AM

NEW YORK, CMC – The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said that that a staggering number of Caribbean and other immigrants are being sexually abused at US federal detention centers.

Published:Thursday | October 20, 2011 | 11:07 AM

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC - A passenger from Massachusetts who said he brought less than an ounce of marijuana with him to ease personal pain on a cruise to Bermuda has been hit in the pocket with a US$10,000 fine after admitting importing the drug into the

Published:Thursday | October 20, 2011 | 11:06 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – The Haitian government has agreed to support a massive vaccination programme to slow a cholera outbreak that has claimed more than 6,000 lives and afflicted almost a half-million people.

Published:Saturday | October 15, 2011 | 1:20 PM

Trinidad and Tobago’s Opposition Leader Dr. Keith Rowley has warned that the five-member coalition People’s Partnership government was using a possible back door approach in taking Trinidad and Tobago to the International Monetary Fund.

Published:Friday | October 14, 2011 | 11:16 AM

St Lucian Prime Minister Stephenson King has given another strong indication that general elections could be held before the end of this year.

Published:Thursday | October 13, 2011 | 12:00 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC):United Nations (UN) peacekeepers in Haiti have evacuated dozens of people from their homes and placed them in temporary shelters as flood waters rise across the country's south after more than four days of torrential rain.Blue...

Published:Thursday | October 13, 2011 | 12:00 AM

PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC):Police Commissioner Dwayne Gibbs has denied a request by the main opposition People's National Movement (PNM) to hold a public meeting in the capital tomorrow to discuss the 2011-12 budget presented by the Trinidad and Tobago...

Published:Thursday | October 13, 2011 | 12:00 AM

ST JOHN'S (CMC):Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer says his administration is seeking to position Antigua and Barbuda as the regional leader in building an electronically wired society.Addressing the launch of the seventh ICT FEST 2011 here on Tuesday...

Published:Thursday | October 13, 2011 | 12:00 AM

HAMILTON (AP):Police in Bermuda say a United States woman was removed from a JetBlue flight to New York and is being held for a mental-health evaluation.A Bermuda Police Services statement says she is being assessed under the British territory's Mental...

Published:Wednesday | October 12, 2011 | 10:41 AM

The Barbados economy grew by one per cent during the first nine months of the year.

Published:Tuesday | October 11, 2011 | 9:51 AM

The Trinidad and Tobago government yesterday presented a US$9.1 billion budget to Parliament reiterating its resolve to transform the economy, create jobs and a safer environment for investment.

Published:Monday | October 10, 2011 | 9:56 AM

President Bharrat Jagdeo has named November 28 as Guyana's Election Day.

Published:Friday | October 7, 2011 | 9:26 AM

India has put into force tax information exchange agreements with three Caribbean international business centres and completed negotiations with two more.

Published:Thursday | October 6, 2011 | 9:48 AM

Opposition political parties have joined in criticising President Bharrat Jagdeo over his decision to suspend the license of a privately-owned television station for four months.

Published:Wednesday | October 5, 2011 | 10:22 AM

A Judge in Grenada has ordered the immediate deportation of a 33-year-old Trinidadian man who is wanted in his country on at least 25 outstanding warrants.

Published:Tuesday | October 4, 2011 | 1:16 PM

The Paris-based media watchdog group, Reporters without Borders, has criticised the decision of the Guyana government to suspend the licence of a privately-owned television station for four months.

Published:Tuesday | October 4, 2011 | 11:03 AM

High Court judge Gertel Thom has reserved judgment in the dual citizenship case involving Dominican Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit and his Education Minister Petter St. Jean.

Published:Friday | September 30, 2011 | 1:22 PM

The Cuban government has authorised the private purchase and sale of vehicles, one of the most awaited measures relevant to the overhaul of Cuban economy.

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