Antigua’s highest peak has been officially re-named Mount Obama as the CARICOM nation paid tribute to United States President Barack Obama on his 48th birthday yesterday.
The police in Haiti fired tear gas at persons who demonstrated outside the Parliament yesterday to demand increases in the minimum wage, that is less than US$2 a day.
There are concerns of food shortages in Cuba, after upscale grocery stores that were scheduled to close for two days last week, remained shut yesterday.
Guyana’s main opposition party, the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), is calling for an independent probe into an alleged link between the murder of a former television talk show host and the Government.
A United States federal district judge has given the go-ahead for the court-appointed receiver for Sir Allen Stanford’s assets to sue investors to recover funds.
Grenada has a new Attorney General. Rohan Phillip who previously held the post of Solicitor General, has been appointed to act in the position of Attorney General for three months in the first instance.
Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson says he has no intention in following Jamaica’s lead in entering into a stand-by arrangement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Central Bank Governor Marion Williams says she does not anticipate the Barbados government approaching the International Monetary Fund (IMF) anytime soon for assistance in propping up the local economy, according to a report on cananews.net.
Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee has linked “prominent figures in society” to the fire that gutted the buildings housing the Ministry of Health earlier this month, according to a report on www.cananews.net.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved US$10.7 million to St. Lucia under the rapid-access component of the Exogenous Shocks Facility (ESF), according to a report on www.cananews.net.
The main opposition People’s Action Movement says it intends to challenge a recently approved legislation requiring candidates in an election to first take an oath indicating that he or she does not hold dual citizenship.
A former Trinidadian Government minister is objecting to the membership of some CARICOM countries in the Venezuelan-led Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, ALBA.
