Caribbean

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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...

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...

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.

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

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.

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.