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Published:Monday | July 27, 2009 | 3:44 PM

The man charged with the April 2006 murder of Guyana’s agriculture minister Satyadeow Sawh and three other people, has died in hospital.

Published:Monday | July 27, 2009 | 10:01 AM

St Lucia’s Opposition Leader Dr. Kenny Anthony is demanding that Prime Minister Stephenson King reveal the conditions to be met as the government seeks financial support from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Published:Friday | July 24, 2009 | 5:33 PM

Grenada\'s Attorney General James Bristol has resigned.

Published:Friday | July 24, 2009 | 1:43 PM

The US army\'s Southern command will help Guyanese authorities with the investigations into last Friday\'s fire which destroyed the main building of the Ministry of Health.

Published:Friday | July 24, 2009 | 1:43 PM

The board of Antigua\'s troubled Financial Services Regulatory Commission has announced a thorough investigation into its practices and administrative procedures.

Published:Friday | July 24, 2009 | 9:31 AM

St Kitts Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas is defending his administration’s decision to join the Venezuela-led PetroCaribe initiative.

Published:Friday | July 24, 2009 | 9:30 AM

A senior Guyanese government official is reporting that voters may have to wait longer to cast their ballots in local government elections due in that country.

Published:Thursday | July 23, 2009 | 5:47 PM

The United States Coast Guard today said a multinational task force has seized about 1,600 pounds of cocaine, valued at US$55 million, from a go-fast vessel in the Caribbean Sea, according to a report on www.cananews.net.

Published:Thursday | July 23, 2009 | 5:44 PM

In the wake of an alleged multibillion-dollar fraud scheme involving a major offshore banking institution, the board of the troubled Antiguan Financial Services Regulatory Commission (FSRC) has announced a major investigation into its operations.

Published:Thursday | July 23, 2009 | 3:29 PM

Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya says he will return from Nicaragua to Honduras tomorrow, after mediation talks failed to produce a breakthrough, according to a report on www.news.bbc.co.uk.

Published:Thursday | July 23, 2009 | 3:26 PM

Shrinking revenues have forced the government of this British Overseas Territory, Turks and Caicos Island to terminate the services of political appointees, according to a report on www.cananews.net.

Published:Thursday | July 23, 2009 | 3:23 PM

The Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) yesterday said it had approved a programme that outlines its assistance strategy for Haiti for the period 2009-2012, according to a report at www.cananews.net.

Published:Thursday | July 23, 2009 | 1:05 PM

The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has approved an assistance strategy for Haiti over the next three years.

Published:Thursday | July 23, 2009 | 1:04 PM

The Cuban Central Bank has approved the release of some funds in foreign business accounts that have been blocked by the Government for months.

Published:Thursday | July 23, 2009 | 10:08 AM

The Cuban government is projecting a drop in export revenue as a result of the financial crisis.

Published:Thursday | July 23, 2009 | 10:03 AM

Even as Belizean health authorities battle an outbreak of the Influenza A H1N1 virus, it appears the country may be faced with another epidemic.

Published:Wednesday | July 22, 2009 | 6:42 PM

St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves says its time for his country to consider giving up the London-based Privy Council as their final court of appeal.

Published:Wednesday | July 22, 2009 | 1:51 PM

The President of Guyana Bharrat Jagdeo said public sector employees are to receive salary increases by year-end.

Published:Wednesday | July 22, 2009 | 8:55 AM

Cuba’s President, Raul Castro, has promised to send doctors to the African country, Angola.

Published:Wednesday | July 22, 2009 | 8:54 AM

The Nevis Island Administration has dismissed suggestions from former premier, Vance Amory, that a Commission of Inquiry into his administration\'s operations is illegal.

Published:Tuesday | July 21, 2009 | 4:55 PM

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has announced a US$250 billion injection into the global economy that could benefit Caribbean countries, according to a report on www.cananews.net.

Published:Tuesday | July 21, 2009 | 4:39 PM

A Venezuelan investor has sued Bermuda-based insurance broker Willis Group Holdings Ltd over the collapse of the Stanford banking empire, saying he relied on assurances from Willis that Stanford was sound, according to a report on caribbeannetnews.com.

Published:Tuesday | July 21, 2009 | 4:37 PM

Health authorities today confirmed an outbreak of the deadly dengue hemorrhagic fever in the Cayo district in Western Belize, on the western border with Guatemala, according to a report on www.cananews.net.

Published:Tuesday | July 21, 2009 | 12:21 PM

The former Nevis premier Vance Amory has described a Commission of Inquiry into his administration\'s operations as illegal.

Published:Tuesday | July 21, 2009 | 9:09 AM

Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, has announced that his administration will not introduce any new taxes when the national budget is presented.

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