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Published:Wednesday | September 15, 2010 | 12:11 PM

The Bermuda government and a private group, Southlands Ltd, have settled their differences and signed a land swap deal which will allow for the construction of a US$2 billion tourism resort on a former US Navy base at Morgan’s Point.

Published:Wednesday | September 15, 2010 | 9:36 AM

Acting Police Commissioner in Trinidad and Tobago (T&), Stephen Williams, says a probe has been launched into allegations of misconduct and corruption by members of a special unit within the force.

Published:Wednesday | September 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Switzerland (CMC): Swiss lawmakers have approved a bill that will make it easier to return nearly seven million US dollars seized from the Swiss accounts of former dictator Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier....

Published:Wednesday | September 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Barbados (CMC):Two young men are due to appear in court on Monday, charged with causing the fire that killed six women at a clothing store earlier this month.

Published:Wednesday | September 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM

St Kitts (CMC):Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas Monday welcomed a ruling by the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States Supreme Court of Appeal in dismissing a contempt of court charge brought against his...

Published:Wednesday | September 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM

British Virgin Islands (CMC): Education Ministers from the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) met on Tuesday to discuss a new and harmonized Common Entrance Examination for six graders in the sub region.

Published:Tuesday | September 14, 2010 | 5:28 PM

An Argentine energy and agribusiness entrepreneur has announced plans with a Haiti-based business group to build a 33 million, 240-room business hotel in Haiti.

Published:Tuesday | September 14, 2010 | 5:26 PM

Cuba's communist leaders have reportedly identified jobs for the thousands of people set to be laid off next year.

Published:Tuesday | September 14, 2010 | 12:20 PM

The St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Denzil Douglas is calling for the Peoples Action Movement leader Lindsay Grant and leader of the parliamentary opposition Mark Brantley to apologise to the country's former attorney general Dennis Merchant.

Published:Tuesday | September 14, 2010 | 12:19 PM

The St Lucian Prime Minister Stephenson King is supporting a call for a legal framework to implement decisions taken by CARICOM heads of government.

Published:Tuesday | September 14, 2010 | 9:51 AM

Cuba has announced radical plans to lay off huge numbers of state employees, to help revive the communist country's struggling economy.

Published:Monday | September 13, 2010 | 4:32 PM

Police said Monday they have arrested two robbers who set a clothing store ablaze, killing six young women in the normally tranquil capital of the Caribbean island.

Published:Monday | September 13, 2010 | 1:21 PM

The Haitian government is now making plans to relocate thousands of homeless people still living in displaced camps.

Published:Saturday | September 11, 2010 | 2:16 PM

Health officials say a record number of people have died from dengue so far this year in Puerto Rico.

Published:Saturday | September 11, 2010 | 11:59 AM

Hundreds of Africanized "killer" bees have stung a rice farmer to death in the South American nation of Guyana. It is the second such death of a Guyanese farmer in two weeks.

Published:Friday | September 10, 2010 | 11:53 AM

Operations at a 12-million-barrel oil-storage terminal in the Dutch island of Bonaire remains closed, after it was shut as a result of a fire earlier this week.

Published:Friday | September 10, 2010 | 11:51 AM

The United Nation’s mission in Haiti says one of its peacekeepers and a civilian woman are being treated for gunshot wounds after being attacked by robbers yesterday.

Published:Friday | September 10, 2010 | 8:56 AM

The Leeward Islands Airline Pilots Association has issued a seven-day ultimatum to the management of the regional carrier LIAT to implement all of the recommendations of an arbitration panel or face action.

Published:Thursday | September 9, 2010 | 5:14 PM

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is reporting that Latin America and the Caribbean have the world's highest rate of socio-economic inequalities.

Published:Thursday | September 9, 2010 | 5:12 PM

A drunken New York Police Department (NYPD) cop who killed a Haitian woman last year while driving has pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter.

Published:Thursday | September 9, 2010 | 4:53 PM

St. Vincent and the Grenadines is seeking alternative sources of wheat and wheat products amid concerns of a shortage on the world market, following Russia's decision to halt exports.

Published:Thursday | September 9, 2010 | 4:50 PM

The Trinidad and Tobago government has outlined plans to address the financial problems plaguing the regional conglomerate, Clico.

Published:Thursday | September 9, 2010 | 12:48 PM

A drunken New York Police Department (NYPD) cop who killed a Haitian woman last year while driving pleaded to vehicular manslaughter and admitted to Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Alan Marrus that he was “intoxicated” on the night of the accident.

Published:Thursday | September 9, 2010 | 9:01 AM

Barbados has recorded its second death from dengue haemorrhagic fever.

Published:Wednesday | September 8, 2010 | 1:35 PM

Prime Minister David Thompson has confirmed that he is in United States for a “medical procedure” but shied away from questions as to whether or not he is healthy enough to led a government in Barbados.

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