Caribbean

Basseterre (CMC):Law-enforcement officials have detained four people in connection with the weekend robbery of 17 cruise-ship passengers.

Port-au-Prince (CMC): Haitian authorities are bracing for further demonstrations despite an appeal by President René Préval for calm as the death toll from a cholera epidemic quickly soared past 1,000....

The European Union (EU) is to donate thousands of dollars to St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines to help to restore health and sanitary conditions after the two countries were hit by Hurricane Tomas.

Dominica's Public Service Union (PSU) has denounced a call by the country's labour minister to boycott a business enterprise whose owner is at odds with the Roosevelt Skerrit administration.

Officials in Castries, St. Lucia say the banana industry in that country as well as in the Windward Islands could need more than six months to fully recover from the devastation it suffered from Hurricane Tomas.

There have been violent protests in Haiti against United Nations peacekeepers.

The government of Haiti says the number of people killed by a cholera epidemic which started last month is now more than 900.

Former national security minister of Trinidad and Tobago (T&T), Martin Joseph, has distanced himself from the illegal wiretapping carried out by the Strategic Intelligence Agency while he was in office.

More than 11 thousand cases of the cholera have now been recorded in Haiti and more than 700 people have died.

Electricity bills in St Kitts and Nevis may soon increase following the government’s acquisition of four new generators.

St Vincent and the Grenadines’ Opposition leader Arnhim Eustace has described as a disgrace, the removal of the country from a United Nations quality of life index.

WASHINGTON (CMC):The Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has called on the countries of the region to extend a helping hand to the nations that suffered damage from Hurricane Tomas....