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Published:Tuesday | December 2, 2008 | 6:00 PM

Criminologist Professor Ramesh Deosaran wants Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Patrick Manning to move quickly to address the country’s increasing murder toll.

Published:Tuesday | December 2, 2008 | 5:59 PM

The government of St Vincent and the Grenadines is planning to introduce what it calls a twin fiscal stimulus to cushion the impact of the global financial crisis.

Published:Tuesday | December 2, 2008 | 12:11 PM

Guyana’s President, Bharrat Jagdeo, has pardoned a former member of parliament who was charged with treason.

Published:Tuesday | December 2, 2008 | 12:11 PM

Telecommunications provider LIME has been forced to disconnect cell phones assigned to the Antigua police force.

Published:Tuesday | December 2, 2008 | 8:18 AM

A tourism official in Grenada has disclosed that American Airlines is to cutback on its scheduled flights to the island, just weeks after the reintroduction of the service following a ten-year break.

Published:Monday | December 1, 2008 | 12:13 PM

The United Nations said homosexuals in Haiti are more at risk for contracting HIV/AIDS as they hide from social programmes due to prejudice and harassment.

Published:Monday | December 1, 2008 | 12:13 PM

Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Patrick Manning said the government would be cutting major public spending in an effort to contain the fall out from the global financial crisis.

Published:Friday | November 28, 2008 | 1:02 PM

The government of Montserrat says it will be tightening its work permit policy as of next week.

Published:Friday | November 28, 2008 | 1:02 PM

Haiti\'s president Rene Preval is to meet with mayors next week, to discuss widespread lawless construction in fast growing slums.

Published:Friday | November 28, 2008 | 8:29 AM

The Prime Minister of St. Lucia Stephenson King is to marry his long time girlfriend and bank executive Rosella Nestor in Miami Florida tomorrow.

Published:Thursday | November 27, 2008 | 3:02 PM

The St Kitts\' opposition People\'s Action Movement (PAM) has renewed its call for early elections in the twin island federation, following a spate of power outages.

Published:Thursday | November 27, 2008 | 3:00 PM

The European Commission has accepted yesterdays’ ruling by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) against the European Union in its long-running banana war with the United States and Latin American producers.

Published:Thursday | November 27, 2008 | 8:22 AM

The Government in Guyana has signed a deal, worth US$1 billion with Bosai Minerals Group for the construction of a state-of-the-art aluminium plant in the mining town of Linden.

Published:Wednesday | November 26, 2008 | 1:40 PM

As the region continues to feel the effects of the global financial crisis, the government in the Dominican Republic is reporting a drop in the number of tourists visiting the country.

Published:Wednesday | November 26, 2008 | 1:39 PM

Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva wants Caribbean countries to take a tougher stand against the sexual exploitation of children.

Published:Tuesday | November 25, 2008 | 12:23 PM

Antigua and Barbuda said it would be strengthening the country’s border control security measures.

Published:Tuesday | November 25, 2008 | 12:22 PM

The Human Rights Association in Guyana said there is need for a change in culture in the legal, security and religious sectors, in order to end violence against women.

Published:Tuesday | November 25, 2008 | 10:40 AM

The governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands has denied that the British government is taking over administration of the finances of the territory.

Published:Monday | November 24, 2008 | 12:53 PM

The Prime Ministers of Antigua, the Bahamas and Belize, have pledged to push regional banks to provide more loans to builders and exporters, to boost jobs and trade, in an effort to counter the world economic crisis.

Published:Monday | November 24, 2008 | 12:53 PM

Leader of the Dominica Freedom Party (DFP), Judith Pestaina, is expressing concern over the dismissal of Ambrose George from the Labour Party’s cabinet.

Published:Monday | November 24, 2008 | 11:00 AM

Trade experts from across the Caribbean will gather in Barbados this week to identify opportunities to maximise the benefits of the recently signed Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) which governs future trade with European Union (EU) countries.

Published:Friday | November 21, 2008 | 12:55 PM

Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Patrick Manning, is projecting that the country will lose about TT$6 billions because of a fall in the prices of natural gas, oil and petrochemicals.

Published:Friday | November 21, 2008 | 9:46 AM

Aid workers say at least 26 severely malnourished children have died in Haiti in recent days, and they fear many more deaths unless more help comes.

Published:Thursday | November 20, 2008 | 12:05 PM

A former Central Bank employee in Barbados has been charged with stealing more than BBD$1.4 million from the island’s premier financial institution.

Published:Thursday | November 20, 2008 | 12:01 PM

Prosecutors in Suriname say they are now investigating several cases of human trafficking.

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