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Published:Wednesday | October 1, 2008 | 10:48 AM

Brussels and Havana appear to be making serious progress in their bid to mend relations that were strained by a Cuban crackdown on dissidents five years ago.

Published:Tuesday | September 30, 2008 | 1:12 PM

The Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines Dr. Ralph Gonsalves is warning that the economic crisis now affecting the US will have a ripple effect on other countries.

Published:Tuesday | September 30, 2008 | 10:17 AM

Cuban authorities have been trying to reassure the island\'s citizens that basic food prices will not be increased.

Published:Monday | September 29, 2008 | 3:15 PM

The government of the US Virgin Islands said it has paid long-overdue bills to ease a cash-flow crunch at the territory\'s electricity and water company.

Published:Monday | September 29, 2008 | 3:14 PM

The head of the United Nations World Food Programme, Josette Sheeran, is appealing to donor nations to supply more funds for Haiti.

Published:Monday | September 29, 2008 | 11:34 AM

St Lucia’s Trade, Investment and Commerce Minister Rufus Bousquet said development projects are being stalled because of the US financial meltdown.

Published:Monday | September 29, 2008 | 11:33 AM

The murder toll in Trinidad and Tobago has risen to 397.

Published:Friday | September 26, 2008 | 2:13 PM

Law enforcement agencies in Guyana have arrested two people in connection with a massive ammunition find at a house in Georgetown.

Published:Friday | September 26, 2008 | 10:27 AM

A joint police and military operation in Antigua earlier this week has resulted in more than 100 suspected illegal immigrants being taken into custody for questioning.

Published:Thursday | September 25, 2008 | 1:55 PM

A judge in the Cayman Islands has been arrested by London\'s Metropolitan Police on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

Published:Thursday | September 25, 2008 | 9:15 AM

A United Nations official says the global financial crisis could make it more difficult to feed millions of hungry people.

Published:Thursday | September 25, 2008 | 9:13 AM

Cuba has accused the United States and other industrial countries of being responsible for the hike in oil prices.

Published:Wednesday | September 24, 2008 | 2:03 PM

A decision in the long drawn-out gaming dispute between Antigua and the United States may be announced soon.

Published:Wednesday | September 24, 2008 | 2:02 PM

A tropical disturbance lurking in the western Caribbean has claimed another life.

Published:Wednesday | September 24, 2008 | 1:26 PM

The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has called for urgent action to bring life-saving help to thousands of children in Haiti suffering from the devastation caused by the passage of four successive hurricanes since August.

Published:Tuesday | September 23, 2008 | 2:51 PM

At least nine people have been killed and two others wounded in a shooting spree at a college in the town of Kauhajoki in western Finland this morning.

Published:Tuesday | September 23, 2008 | 2:50 PM

Four people have reportedly died in Puerto Rico as a result of flooding associated with a slow-moving tropical disturbance, which is drenching the US territory.

Published:Tuesday | September 23, 2008 | 2:49 PM

Motorists in energy-exporting Trinidad and Tobago are now paying more for gasoline.

Published:Tuesday | September 23, 2008 | 9:03 AM

Former Grenadian Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell failed to show up in court yesterday in the seven-year-old libel case against newspaper editor George Worme.

Published:Monday | September 22, 2008 | 1:42 PM

An opposition party in Guyana is questioning the decision by the government to give the armed forces a portion of the reward for information that led to the capture of Guyana\'s most wanted men.

Published:Monday | September 22, 2008 | 1:41 PM

Haiti’s President Rene Preval has announced three days of national mourning for victims of four storms that have hit the country in recent weeks.

Published:Monday | September 22, 2008 | 1:31 PM

The Bharrat Jagdeo administration has written to the Jamaican government seeking its intervention in a purchasing deal between rice growers in Guyana and purchasers here.

Published:Monday | September 22, 2008 | 1:30 PM

The Barbadian government has warned unscrupulous landlords who are capitalising on the shortage of low-income housing in that country that legislation is coming to deal with them.

Published:Saturday | September 20, 2008 | 3:05 PM

The Cuban population is reportedly expressing gratefulness for the near daily arrival of donations in the wake of the devastation wrought by Hurricanes Gustav and Ike.

Published:Friday | September 19, 2008 | 2:16 PM

The world\'s largest trade union body is urging the Barbados government to do more to protect the country’s workforce.

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