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Published:Sunday | May 15, 2011 | 6:19 PM

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says Barbados has begun to recover from the impact of the global economic crisis.

Published:Sunday | May 15, 2011 | 12:28 PM

The St. Lucian police are questioning two men in connection with the rape of two female British nationals by six masked men while on an isolated beach on the island’s north east coast.

Published:Saturday | May 14, 2011 | 3:17 PM

Haitians will forget the calamity caused by last year’s powerful earthquake that killed an estimated 300,000 of their fellow citizens as well as a cholera outbreak that has so far killed more than 4,

Published:Thursday | May 12, 2011 | 12:00 AM

CHICAGO (CMC): Allen Stanford, the Texas-born financier, who is accused of using his Antigua-based Stanford International Bank Ltd (SIB) to run a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme will go on trial from September 12,...

Published:Thursday | May 12, 2011 | 12:00 AM

SANTO DOMINGO, (AP):Authorities in the Dominican Republic say they have discovered marijuana plants growing inside a prison.A spokesman for the National Drug Control Agency says officers making a surprise inspection...

Published:Thursday | May 12, 2011 | 12:00 AM

BASSETERRE, CMC: Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas escaped injury yesterday after his vehicle was involved in a four-car accident, his press secretary Erasmus Williams said."I had the opportunity of seeing him and speaking...

Published:Monday | May 9, 2011 | 12:00 AM

PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC): Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has hinted at reshuffling the cabinet of her People's Partnership coalition government as it approaches its first anniversary later this month."I had...

Published:Monday | May 9, 2011 | 12:00 AM

HAVANA (AP):A Cuban dissident died yesterday following a run-in with authorities at a protest, said fellow government opponents who accused police of beating him and provoking his death.Juan Wilfredo Soto died early in the morning in Santa Clara, fellow...

Published:Monday | May 9, 2011 | 12:00 AM

MIAMI (CMC):The head of the United States Southern Command here has identified transnational criminal organisations as the greatest threat to security in the Caribbean.Speaking at a conference on security at the University of Miami's Centre...

Published:Saturday | May 7, 2011 | 1:23 PM

Haiti is expected to benefit from a new 10 -ear programme for the world’s poorest nations.

Published:Saturday | May 7, 2011 | 1:21 PM

Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar has hinted at re-shuffling the cabinet of her People’s Partnership coalition government as it approaches its first anniversary later this month.

Published:Saturday | May 7, 2011 | 12:39 PM

St. Lucia’s Police Commissioner Vernon Francois has denied a cover-up in recent police killings.

Published:Wednesday | May 4, 2011 | 1:23 PM

Director of Public Prosecutions in St. Vincent and the Grenadines Colin Williams, has warned that the Internet could provide the opportunity for persons to abuse the power of the media.

Published:Wednesday | May 4, 2011 | 1:21 PM

CARICOM has developed a strategic regional approach for the implementation of a UN Security Council Resolution.

Published:Tuesday | May 3, 2011 | 12:00 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (AP):Marie Bolivar, a gray-haired woman with a raspy voice, crushes peanuts into paste for sandwiches which she sells by the roadside for 12 cents apiece.

Published:Tuesday | May 3, 2011 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON, CMC:The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Monday released a study about the potential impact of rising food prices on Latin America and the Caribbean.The study highlights the need to protect...

Published:Tuesday | May 3, 2011 | 12:00 AM

BASSETERRE, CMC The St Kitts and Nevis government says it will look to Israel for assistance in dealing with the upsurge in criminal activities here and outlined a series of new initiatives to deal with what National Security...

Published:Monday | May 2, 2011 | 12:00 AM

CASTRIES (CMC):Heavy rains over the past five days have caused wide-spread damage across the island but there have been no reports so far of any deaths.Director of Meteorological Services Thomas Auguste said that the weather pattern is not only unusual...

Published:Monday | May 2, 2011 | 12:00 AM

PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC):A police sergeant is due to reappear in court on June 17 to answer charges of having sexual intercourse with a teenage girl without her consent last month.Sergeant Dane Sarzano was not called upon to plead when he appeared before...

Published:Monday | May 2, 2011 | 12:00 AM

HAVANA (AP):Hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched through Havana and other cities yesterday to mark May Day in a demonstration touted as a vast show of support for economic changes recently approved...

Published:Monday | May 2, 2011 | 12:00 AM

PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC):Caribbean Community (CARICOM) national security ministers have ordered a "comprehensive audit" of the Trinidad-based Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS) after...

Published:Sunday | May 1, 2011 | 6:01 PM

The Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago (LATT) has criticised Justice Minister Herbert Volney over calls that the present Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard should be removed from

Published:Sunday | May 1, 2011 | 12:18 PM

Five days of heavy rains have caused widespread damage across St. Lucia.

Published:Saturday | April 30, 2011 | 7:16 PM

Heavy rains over the past five days have caused widespread damage across St Lucia, but there have been no reports so far of any deaths.

Published:Saturday | April 30, 2011 | 11:14 AM

Haiti has made its first shipment of goods to Grenada under a temporary agreement with other CARICOM countries.

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