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Published:Friday | January 16, 2009 | 12:43 PM

Regional airline LIAT said more than 130 flights were cancelled around the region as a result of the safety procedures that were implemented by Antigua\'s airport authorities last year.

Published:Friday | January 16, 2009 | 9:06 AM

The Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has granted special leave to Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) and TCL Guyana Incorporated to pursue a case against the Guyana government.

Published:Thursday | January 15, 2009 | 1:01 PM

The Trinidad and Tobago government has predicted that that revenues will decline by more than US$400 million this year as a result of falling energy prices.

Published:Thursday | January 15, 2009 | 7:46 AM

The General Secretary of the umbrella Caribbean Congress of Labour (CCL), Lincoln Lewis, is concerned that massive job losses could be in store across the Caribbean.

Published:Wednesday | January 14, 2009 | 3:04 PM

St Kitts and Nevis is the latest Caribbean country to turn to international sources for help in combating rising violent crime.

Published:Wednesday | January 14, 2009 | 8:46 AM

The authorities in the United States said the Coast Guard has repatriated 100 Haitian migrants to their homeland after they were spotted in an overloaded vessel northeast of Cuba.

Published:Tuesday | January 13, 2009 | 7:53 AM

Officials in Cuba said they are ending a nearly decade-long ban on new licenses for private taxis and they will even let cabbies set their own fares.

Published:Monday | January 12, 2009 | 12:24 PM

The authorities in Guyana have called in the security forces to help protect a large conservancy, in which the water level has risen to dangerous levels due to heavy rain.

Published:Monday | January 12, 2009 | 12:24 PM

CARICOM has joined other international bodies in calling for Israel and Palestine to obey a United Nations Security Council resolution for a ceasefire.

Published:Monday | January 12, 2009 | 9:15 AM

Prime Minister Stephenson King has announced that he will outline his government’s plans to stabilise the St Lucian economy in an address to the nation later this month.

Published:Friday | January 9, 2009 | 11:14 AM

The Trinidad and Tobago government is again to revise the country\'s 2009 budget.

Published:Thursday | January 8, 2009 | 11:30 AM

The air traffic restrictions that were put in place in Antigua last month have been lifted.

Published:Wednesday | January 7, 2009 | 1:26 PM

Turks and Caicos Premier Michael Misick has been called to give evidence in a public Commission of Inquiry hearing scheduled for next Tuesday.

Published:Wednesday | January 7, 2009 | 1:23 PM

Guyana\'s president Bharrat Jagdeo has joined several international leaders in calls for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza.

Published:Tuesday | January 6, 2009 | 3:37 PM

Officials in Dominica are banking on a new national anti-drug plan to facilitate supply reduction.

Published:Tuesday | January 6, 2009 | 3:37 PM

Liat says its regional flights are being delayed because of continuing action by air traffic controllers in Antigua.

Published:Tuesday | January 6, 2009 | 9:25 AM

Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Patrick Manning returned to work yesterday, less than four weeks after he successfully underwent surgery in Cuba to remove a malignant tumour in his left kidney.

Published:Tuesday | January 6, 2009 | 8:52 AM

Many students in Guyana were unable to attend classes this morning due to damage to schools caused by heavy rainfall and flooding in the country recently.

Published:Tuesday | January 6, 2009 | 8:51 AM

The new chairman of CARICOM, Belize Prime Minister Dean Barrow says his country will be working to enhance the alliance with the regional grouping the Central American Integration System.

Published:Friday | January 2, 2009 | 2:40 PM

An investigation has been launched to find out who has been impersonating President Bharrat Jagdeo on the social networking site, Facebook.

Published:Friday | January 2, 2009 | 2:39 PM

The Trinidad and Tobago Government is cutting its monthly payments to the CARICOM Development Fund (CDF).

Published:Friday | January 2, 2009 | 8:04 AM

The Grenada government says although the global financial crisis has made its presence felt on the island, it hasn\'t to date had much of an impact on the island.

Published:Friday | January 2, 2009 | 8:03 AM

A banking association in the Caribbean has said the banking system in the region is not under any stress as a result of the international financial turmoil.

Published:Wednesday | December 31, 2008 | 12:30 PM

A judge in Suriname has sentenced former civil works minister Dewanand Balesar to two years in prison.

Published:Wednesday | December 31, 2008 | 12:29 PM

British airline Virgin Atlantic is set to start running direct flights between London and Puerto Rico late next year.

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