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Published:Monday | October 27, 2008 | 12:55 PM

St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Denzil Douglas has told workers that they could be taking home bigger pay cheques in the near future.

Published:Friday | October 24, 2008 | 2:00 PM

Leaders of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and Trinidad and Tobago said they are willing to have public discussions on their planned economic and political union.

Published:Friday | October 24, 2008 | 11:02 AM

The European Union and Cuba have formally restored ties five years after the EU imposed diplomatic sanctions on Cuba following the mass arrest of dissidents in 2003.

Published:Thursday | October 23, 2008 | 2:18 PM

The World Bank said it would be canceling some of Haiti\'s debt next year, as the country grapples with rising food prices and the devastation from four major storms.

Published:Thursday | October 23, 2008 | 2:10 PM

St Lucia\'s Trade Minister Rufus Bousquet said his government is not ready to sign Venezuela\'s petrocaribe initiative.

Published:Thursday | October 23, 2008 | 9:46 AM

The prime minister of St Vincent Ralph Gonsalves has appealed to teachers on the island to return to the classrooms.

Published:Thursday | October 23, 2008 | 9:46 AM

Leaders of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) will seek to iron out difficulties related to their proposed economic and political union with Trinidad and Tobago at a meeting in St Kitts today.

Published:Wednesday | October 22, 2008 | 1:36 PM

Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Ralph Gonsalves has appealed to teachers on the island to return to the classrooms.

Published:Wednesday | October 22, 2008 | 1:35 PM

The recent rape and robbery of two females in Trinidad and Tobago has prompted the United Kingdom’s foreign office to issue a travel advisory.

Published:Wednesday | October 22, 2008 | 9:46 AM

The authorities in Cuba are reportedly getting tough on price gouging and other post-hurricane crimes.

Published:Wednesday | October 22, 2008 | 9:46 AM

An independent legislator in Montserrat has lodged a no confidence motion against chief minister Lowell Lewis.

Published:Tuesday | October 21, 2008 | 2:01 PM

Teachers in St. Vincent and the Grenadines have entered their second week of strike action.

Published:Tuesday | October 21, 2008 | 2:01 PM

The St Kitts and Nevis parliament will today begin a debate on an amendment to the twin island federation\'s anti terrorism laws

Published:Tuesday | October 21, 2008 | 12:08 PM

Less than a week after 13 Caribbean countries signed off on the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Europe, Guyana has now affixed its signature to the document.

Published:Friday | October 17, 2008 | 1:16 PM

Several islands in the eastern and northern Caribbean are now assessing the damage caused by Hurrricane Omar.

Published:Friday | October 17, 2008 | 1:15 PM

A labour dispute is now brewing at a tourist resort project in the Turks and Caicos Islands after it was stalled following the failure of a major US bank, Lehman Brothers.

Published:Thursday | October 16, 2008 | 3:38 PM

The Miami based National Hurricane centre is reporting that Hurricane Omar, a category-three storm is rapidly moving away from the northern Leeward Islands out to sea.

Published:Thursday | October 16, 2008 | 3:37 PM

The two major opposition parties in Guyana said they would stand by the government in a dispute with its neighboring country Suriname.

Published:Wednesday | October 15, 2008 | 2:41 PM

The Spanish government has offered up to 1 million euros to Cuba to help pay for damage caused by Hurricanes Gustav and Ike.

Published:Tuesday | October 14, 2008 | 2:54 PM

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) said the Caribbean and other developing countries could see a drop in trade as a direct result of the financial woes now plaguing global economies.

Published:Tuesday | October 14, 2008 | 2:54 PM

Guyana’s President Bharrat Jagdeo said it now appears likely that the country will sign the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Europe.

Published:Tuesday | October 14, 2008 | 1:14 PM

Teachers in St Vincent will continue a second day of industrial action today to protest against the government\'s public sector reclassification project.

Published:Monday | October 13, 2008 | 2:55 PM

A trade deal between several Caribbean countries and Canada has been delayed.

Published:Monday | October 13, 2008 | 2:53 PM

Teachers in St. Vincent and the Grenadines are reportedly restive over the government’s public sector reclassification project.

Published:Friday | October 10, 2008 | 1:37 PM

The police in Trinidad are now probing the circumstances under which a Swedish couple was killed in the Bon Accord area of Tobago yesterday.

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