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Published:Thursday | October 14, 2010 | 9:12 AM

Officials in St Lucia say they’re grappling with the issue of how to encourage witnesses of serious crimes to help the courts and the police in their investigations.

Published:Wednesday | October 13, 2010 | 6:36 PM

Cuba has been placed on alert for Hurricane Paula.

Published:Wednesday | October 13, 2010 | 6:35 PM

An undersea cable from Venezuela to Cuba to improve Internet and telecommunications on the island won't be ready until July at the earliest and will cost more than initially thought.

Published:Wednesday | October 13, 2010 | 12:26 PM

Parliamentarians aligned to the Barbados Labour Party are scheduled to hold another meeting to vote on whether they want current leader Mia Mottley or former Prime Minister Owen Arthur to be in charge of the opposition party.

Published:Wednesday | October 13, 2010 | 12:03 PM

The United Nations mission in Haiti has expressed its concern at reports that arms are being distributed as the country prepares to hold elections next month.

Published:Tuesday | October 12, 2010 | 12:14 PM

Antigua and Barbuda has implemented a gun amnesty.

Published:Tuesday | October 12, 2010 | 12:11 PM

Media reports out of Barbados are suggesting that the country’s former Prime Minister Owen Arthur is poised to resume the leadership of the Opposition in parliament.

Published:Tuesday | October 12, 2010 | 9:01 AM

Trinidad and Tobago’s Opposition Leader Dr. Keith Rowley has called for Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar to take action against her Works and Transport Minister Austin Warner.

Published:Monday | October 11, 2010 | 6:59 PM

An 8 year-old child was shot dead last night while her parents were injured after masked gunmen entered her home and fired several shots at them.

Published:Monday | October 11, 2010 | 6:54 PM

The United States Census Bureau says the US imported goods totalling $42.9 million from the sub-regional Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) during the first six months of this year.

Published:Monday | October 11, 2010 | 12:29 PM

One-hundred-and-sixty Haitian students who were victims of the devastating earthquake in Port-au-Prince in January are to be flown to Senegal this week to continue their studies at universities there

Published:Monday | October 11, 2010 | 12:28 PM

Caribbean tourism leaders are meeting in Barbados to devise ways of giving new dynamism to the region's most important industry.

Published:Sunday | October 10, 2010 | 10:27 AM

AMSTERDAM, CMC – Two Dutch Caribbean islands became independent countries early Sunday morning after the Netherlands Antilles was dissolved, five years after legal proceedings began.

Published:Friday | October 8, 2010 | 9:35 AM

Four Bahamian passengers are now being treated in a Florida hospital for injuries sustained in a plane crash on Wednesday.

Published:Thursday | October 7, 2010 | 3:02 PM

Former President Bill Clinton said desperately needed U.S. aid is coming to Haiti despite delays after listening on Wednesday to refugees in a sprawling homeless camp complain of a lack of food, jobs and housing nine months after a devastating earthquake.

Published:Thursday | October 7, 2010 | 9:44 AM

The fishing village of Dennery, on St Lucia's East Coast, has been declared a disaster zone.

Published:Tuesday | October 5, 2010 | 12:51 PM

The international aid agency, Oxfam, is calling for the United States to stop subsidising exports of American rice to Haiti because it undermines local food production.

Published:Tuesday | October 5, 2010 | 9:32 AM

Schools and several businesses in Barbados and St. Vincent and the Grenadines were forced to close because of torrential rains associated with a weather system over the Windward Islands.

Published:Monday | October 4, 2010 | 6:11 PM

The chief executive officer of Caribbean Airlines (CAL) is recommending that the Antigua-based LIAT should seriously consider amalgamation with the Trinidad-based carrier if it hopes to survive current challenges.

Published:Monday | October 4, 2010 | 6:07 PM

St Vincent and the Grenadines prime minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves has defended the decision of his administration to privatize the state-owned National Commercial Bank (NCB).

Published:Monday | October 4, 2010 | 4:25 PM

Washington is working on a plan to bring the vast majority of exiled Cuban political prisoners from Spain to the United States and has already processed the first case, a senior State Department official told The Associated Press on Monday.

Published:Monday | October 4, 2010 | 12:36 PM

Authorities in Cuba have begun the six-month process of firing half a million state workers.

Published:Monday | October 4, 2010 | 12:25 PM

A senior minister in the Ecuadorean government says parts of a law which provoked a police rebellion last week will be rewritten.

Published:Monday | October 4, 2010 | 11:26 AM

Brazil's presidential election will go to a second round after Dilma Rousseff failed to win an outright victory in yesterday’s voting.

Published:Monday | October 4, 2010 | 10:52 AM

A 5.1-magnitude earthquake has shaken Cuba's second-largest city, Santiago, and other eastern parts of the island, but there have been no reports of injuries or damage.

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