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Published:Tuesday | November 10, 2009 | 6:25 PM

Trinidad and Tobago is expected to receive 70,000 doses of the H1N1 vaccine later this month.

Published:Tuesday | November 10, 2009 | 12:47 PM

The International Monetary Fund has approved a $1.7 billion loan programme to help the Dominican Republic through the economic crisis.

Published:Tuesday | November 10, 2009 | 12:45 PM

Guyana is to receive up to $250 million by 2015 from Norway to preserve forests as part of a scheme to slow climate change.

Published:Tuesday | November 10, 2009 | 11:11 AM

Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham has announced a plan to create 2,500 temporary jobs over a six-month period, according to a report on www.cananews.net.

Published:Tuesday | November 10, 2009 | 11:09 AM

Guyana\'s Health Minister Dr. Leslie Ramsammy has warned that dengue fever would continue to spread in the country due to the careless attitude of citizens.

Published:Tuesday | November 10, 2009 | 11:07 AM

Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit says the lack of an international airport has retarded Dominica\'s development and defended the decision of his administration to upgrade the existing Meville Hall airport.

Published:Tuesday | November 10, 2009 | 11:05 AM

A young Bermudian prosecutor has been fined US$1,000 and admonished by the island\'s Bar Council after comments she made on the popular social networking site, Facebook, according to a report on www.cananews.net.

Published:Tuesday | November 10, 2009 | 11:04 AM

Suzann Holshouser has returned to parliament as one of the three opposition United Bermuda Party (UBP) senators, two years after losing her St. David seat in the general election, according to a report on www.cananews.net.

Published:Tuesday | November 10, 2009 | 9:11 AM

The Bahamas Government said it has used funds confiscated from the illegal drugs trade to purchase a new aircraft to assist in the fight against crime.

Published:Tuesday | November 10, 2009 | 9:10 AM

Prison officers in Trinidad and Tobago reportedly fear for their lives as gunmen have been targeting workers in correctional facilities in the twin island republic.

Published:Monday | November 9, 2009 | 6:28 PM

A former employee of the Bank of Antigua, previously owned by disgraced Texan Financier, Sir Allen Stanford, has been ordered to pay back more than US$27,000 she stole from the institution.

Published:Monday | November 9, 2009 | 6:27 PM

CARICOM Secretary General, Edwin Carrington, is reporting that countries of the region are yet to benefit from a promise made by the world’s industrialised countries to restore credit, jobs and growth in the world economy.

Published:Monday | November 9, 2009 | 2:08 PM

The Bahamas Government has promised several categories of public sector workers that they will receive agreed salary increases.

Published:Monday | November 9, 2009 | 2:06 PM

The lower house of Haiti\'s parliament has confirmed Jean-Max Bellerive as the country’s next Prime Minister.

Published:Monday | November 9, 2009 | 9:04 AM

A 23- year-old Guyanese woman is presumed dead after plunging from the top of the towering Kaieteur Falls on the weekend.

Published:Friday | November 6, 2009 | 6:29 PM

The main opposition Antigua Labour Party (ALP) is defending the right of Commonwealth citizens to vote in general elections and has vowed to oppose any move to alter that arrangement.

Published:Friday | November 6, 2009 | 6:27 PM

St Lucia has recorded its first death linked to the influenza A (HINI) virus.

Published:Friday | November 6, 2009 | 1:14 PM

Anguilla has agreed to undertake a study of the impact of low taxation on the country\'s economy.

Published:Friday | November 6, 2009 | 1:13 PM

Montserrat’s Chief Minister, Reuben Meade should know today whether he will be allowed to continue serving as a lawmaker in that country’s Legislative Council.

Published:Thursday | November 5, 2009 | 6:21 PM

Bermuda’s Police Commissioner George Jackson, is to retire in mid-December after four years in the post.

Published:Thursday | November 5, 2009 | 6:18 PM

Lawmakers in Puerto Rico have taken a first step toward adopting legislation that will give priority to married couples seeking to adopt a child.

Published:Thursday | November 5, 2009 | 9:28 AM

Legislators in St. Kitts and Nevis will today debate on a new law, barring a dual citizen from being elected to Parliament.

Published:Wednesday | November 4, 2009 | 6:26 PM

At least one person was killed and two policemen shot and injured after gunmen launched coordinated attacks on two police outposts, the Supreme Court and a secondary school in Guyana this morning.

Published:Wednesday | November 4, 2009 | 1:08 PM

Officials in Puerto Rico say the government has delayed the laying off of more than 7,000 public sector workers until next year.

Published:Wednesday | November 4, 2009 | 9:32 AM

Illegal immigrants in Dutch St Maarten and the rest of the Dutch Antilles are being given an opportunity to regularise their status.

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