Caribbean

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.

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

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).

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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.

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.

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.