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Published:Thursday | February 12, 2009 | 6:29 PM

The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) is seeking a meeting with the Trinidad and Tobago government in a bid to acquire controlling shares in the island\'s biggest commercial bank.

Published:Thursday | February 12, 2009 | 4:26 PM

The Barbados government has announced a rescue package to help the country cope with the impact of the global financial crisis.

Published:Wednesday | February 11, 2009 | 6:03 PM

A judge in the Bahamas has refused a request to lower the bail of the ambulance driver accused of trying to extort 25 million US dollars from US film star John Travolta.

Published:Wednesday | February 11, 2009 | 6:03 PM

President of Trinidad and Tobago, George Maxwell Richards has rejected a request by the Chairman of the Urban Development Corporation, to remove a member of a Commission of Inquiry.

Published:Wednesday | February 11, 2009 | 1:27 PM

A working group is expected to meet with Martinique island administrators today to discuss the lowering of the price of services in the French overseas territory.

Published:Tuesday | February 10, 2009 | 6:00 PM

The Antigua and Barbuda Electoral Commission said its not yet ready to conduct the country’s upcoming general election.

Published:Tuesday | February 10, 2009 | 1:07 PM

Bermuda’s Premier Ewart Brown is reporting that visitor arrivals to the island fell by more than 12 percent in 2008.

Published:Tuesday | February 10, 2009 | 1:04 PM

French government ministers are to meet today in a bid to end ongoing industrial action in the territories of Guadeloupe and Martinique.

Published:Tuesday | February 10, 2009 | 9:12 AM

The parliament in Antigua has been dissolved.

Published:Tuesday | February 10, 2009 | 9:12 AM

The British government has announced that Trinidad and Tobago nationals travelling to its country for a period of six months will not be required to have a visa.

Published:Monday | February 9, 2009 | 6:17 PM

The United States and Canada are calling for greater dialogue, after Haiti\'s electoral council barred members of the former President Jean Bertrand Aristide\'s political party from contesting the upcoming Senate election.

Published:Monday | February 9, 2009 | 6:16 PM

Cuba, Haiti and Honduras are shortly to receive help to deal with food shortages caused by a series of hurricanes last year.

Published:Monday | February 9, 2009 | 2:44 PM

Telecommunications giant Digicel is reported to have achieved its target of 450 voluntary redundancies across its Caribbean operations.

Published:Monday | February 9, 2009 | 9:37 AM

The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Secretariat has signed an agreement with a Puerto Rico university to provide increased opportunities for nationals of member states to pursue higher education in San Juan.

Published:Friday | February 6, 2009 | 6:20 PM

The Bermuda government is now probing what it said was a scam to frame Premier Dr Ewart Brown and one of his Ministers.

Published:Friday | February 6, 2009 | 6:15 PM

International ratings agency Moody\'s Investors said its monitoring developments in Port of Spain, Trinidad following the government\'s decision to take control of several companies that are part of CL Financial.

Published:Friday | February 6, 2009 | 1:06 PM

The four members of Trinidad and Tobago\'s Integrity Commission have resigned.

Published:Friday | February 6, 2009 | 1:06 PM

A top official of the Virgin Atlantic airline is accusing the United Kingdom government of discriminating against the Caribbean with its new air passenger duties plans.

Published:Thursday | February 5, 2009 | 6:40 PM

Air traffic controllers who took strike action for more than a week are expected back on the job less than a day after they were dismissed for breach of contract.

Published:Thursday | February 5, 2009 | 6:39 PM

St Vincent and the Grenadines\' Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves said he expects a decision to be made in April regarding his country\'s application to access money from a new CARICOM fund.

Published:Thursday | February 5, 2009 | 1:27 PM

The president of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) Compton Bourne, said he is disappointed at the delay by most CARICOM member states to fully sign on to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).

Published:Thursday | February 5, 2009 | 1:26 PM

The Transport Ministry in Guyana has fired air traffic controllers who had been on strike since last week.

Published:Thursday | February 5, 2009 | 9:08 AM

The Trinidadian parliament has approved legislative changes supporting a major government bail out package for the embattled CL Financial Limited.

Published:Thursday | February 5, 2009 | 9:07 AM

The Guyanese transport minister Robeson Benn has threatened to fire striking air traffic controllers if they do not end their industrial action.

Published:Wednesday | February 4, 2009 | 6:25 PM

The international credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s said it has placed Trinidad and Tobago on credit watch with developing negative implications.

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