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Published:Saturday | June 11, 2011 | 5:55 PM

Bermuda’s Education Minister Dame Jennifer Smith has confirmed that 97 teachers have been sacked from Bermuda’s public schools.

Published:Saturday | June 11, 2011 | 12:02 PM

Talks between regional trade unions and the Caribbean airline, LIAT, ended in Antigua yesterday with the unions indicating that they are still awaiting the airline’s response to a contentious issue.

Published:Thursday | June 9, 2011 | 9:47 AM

The 21-year-old grandson of a Bermuda cabinet minister has been jailed for nine months after he admitted to conspiring to pervert the course of justice.

Published:Wednesday | June 8, 2011 | 5:57 PM

Barbadian Members of Parliament have come out in support of low cost airline REDjet.

Published:Wednesday | June 8, 2011 | 2:14 PM

United States President Barack Obama has issued a proclamation on the sixth anniversary of the celebration of Caribbean-American Heritage Month in June.

Published:Wednesday | June 8, 2011 | 2:04 PM

The Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago has filed civil proceedings against Lawrence Duprey, the former chairman and owner Colonial Life Insurance Company Limited (CLICO).

Published:Wednesday | June 8, 2011 | 12:00 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC): Heavy rains, caused by a low pressure area centred over the northwestern Caribbean Sea, have been blamed for at least 23 deaths in Haiti. Disaster officials said that the rains yesterday ...

Published:Monday | June 6, 2011 | 12:00 AM

PORT OF SPAIN (CMC):Former prime Minister Patrick Manning has filed a lawsuit challenging the legality of his suspension from Parliament.Manning wants the High Court to have the suspension overturned and is also requesting reimbursement for his loss of...

Published:Monday | June 6, 2011 | 12:00 AM

GEORGETOWN (CMC):President Bharrat Jagdeo has been named by leaders of the Amazonian, Congo and Borneo-Mekong forests as the world's first goodwill ambassador for tropical rainforests.The position is not full-time and will take effect when Jagdeo demits...

Published:Monday | June 6, 2011 | 12:00 AM

MONTGOMERY, Alabama (CMC):The southern US state of Alabama has passed a sweeping bill to crack down on illegal Caribbean and other immigrants, that both supporters and opponents call the toughest of its kind in the country.Observers say it goes well...

Published:Saturday | June 4, 2011 | 5:56 PM

A 44-year-old man who stabbed his estranged wife to death because she infected him with the HIV/AIDS has been found guilty on the lesser count of manslaughter.

Published:Friday | June 3, 2011 | 11:13 AM

There are fears that a redundancy exercise at regional airline LIAT could stall this weekend’s talks between unions and the airline’s management.

Published:Wednesday | June 1, 2011 | 9:30 AM

Opposition Senator Fitzgerald Hinds has called for Police Commissioner Dwayne Gibbs to launch an investigation to determine whether Trinidad and Tobago was used as a venue for the alleged payment of b

Published:Monday | May 30, 2011 | 6:25 PM

The Denzil Douglas administration is introducing new measures to ban the sale of alcohol to them.

Published:Monday | May 30, 2011 | 10:06 AM

Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar is supporting her embattled senior cabinet minister, Austin ‘Jack’ Warner.

Published:Monday | May 30, 2011 | 12:00 AM

ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC): Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer has announced that the country's UN Ambassador, Dr John W.

Published:Monday | May 30, 2011 | 12:00 AM

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC):Political leader of the Congress of the People (COP) Winston Dookeran announced Saturday that he will not contest the upcoming internal party elections because of concerns within the membership about his leadership...

Published:Monday | May 30, 2011 | 12:00 AM

GENEVA, Switzerland (CMC):The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it is working with various partners in Haiti in responding promptly to increasing cases of cholera in the French-speaking Caribbean Community...

Published:Saturday | May 28, 2011 | 5:57 PM

The Trinidad-based Guardian Holdings Limited (GHL) and its minority shareholding partners say they have reached an agreement to sell their Lloyd's of London business, Jubilee Group Holdings Limited (J

Published:Saturday | May 28, 2011 | 11:06 AM

Investors in the company headed by indicted Texas financier Allen Stanford have filed a $10.7 billion US dollar lawsuit against the former auditors claiming they ignored signs of potential fraud.

Published:Friday | May 27, 2011 | 10:43 AM

A former leader of the Shia Muslim community in Trinidad has been convicted of taking part in a failed plot to blow up fuel tanks and pipelines at JFK airport in New York.

Published:Thursday | May 26, 2011 | 12:51 PM

President George Maxwell Richards says he does not think that a prima facie case has been made for the Integrity Commission chairman, Dr. Eric St Cyr to step down from office.

Published:Thursday | May 26, 2011 | 12:47 PM

The Prime Minister of St Kitts and Nevis Dr. Denzil Douglas has criticised the private sector and other organisations for publicly calling for a foreigner to head the police service.

Published:Thursday | May 26, 2011 | 11:30 AM

Bahamian Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham has presented a US$3.1 billion budget outlining a number of tax measures in the face of what he calls the ongoing challenging fiscal environment.

Published:Saturday | May 21, 2011 | 5:53 PM

Leaders of the nine-member Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) ended their two day summit in St. Vincent yesterday agreeing to meet in St. Lucia next month to further discuss finalising as

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