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Published:Friday | August 22, 2008 | 5:54 PM

More than a year after a plane disappeared on a flight to St. Vincent from neighbouring Grenadines, with two persons on board, the air traffic controller on duty at the time has been fired.

Published:Friday | August 22, 2008 | 3:33 PM

The tenth Caribbean festival of Arts, Carifesta, opens today in Guyana.

Published:Friday | August 22, 2008 | 10:01 AM

Caricom leaders are considering an emergency summit to discuss the reluctance by some member nations to sign a trade and investment agreement with the EU next month.

Published:Friday | August 22, 2008 | 10:00 AM

The government of Grenada is moving to establish money-laundering counter-measures in an effort to avoid being blacklisted a second time by the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force, (FATF).

Published:Thursday | August 21, 2008 | 5:54 PM

The Police in Guyana have charged a man with two counts of harbouring the country’s most wanted fugitive, Rondell Rawlins, and members of his gang.

Published:Thursday | August 21, 2008 | 5:51 PM

The fifth suspect charged in connection with the fatal shooting of a British honeymooning couple was denied bail in the St John\'s Magistrate\'s Court today.

Published:Thursday | August 21, 2008 | 10:15 AM

The Belize parliament is to hold a special sitting tomorrow as legislators debate the effect of the drop in world oil prices on the country\'s economy.

Published:Wednesday | August 20, 2008 | 10:03 AM

Two opposition parties in Dominica have renewed calls for electoral reform ahead of the next general election, which is constitutionally due by 2011.

Published:Tuesday | August 19, 2008 | 2:30 PM

Dominica\'s minority opposition, the Dominica Freedom Party has called for the government to do like some other Caribbean countries and undertake an electoral reform.

Published:Tuesday | August 19, 2008 | 9:44 AM

The St. Lucian Prime Minister, Stephenson King said his country wants its concerns regarding the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) addressed.

Published:Monday | August 18, 2008 | 6:17 PM

A man and a young boy have been charged with the murders of honeymoon couple Catherine and Ben Mullany in Antigua.

Published:Monday | August 18, 2008 | 6:16 PM

Tropical Storm Fay has struck Cuba after causing widespread flooding that left dozens dead in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

Published:Monday | August 18, 2008 | 2:08 PM

Venezuela president Hugo Chavez said he would be going ahead with plans today to nationalise three foreign cement companies.

Published:Monday | August 18, 2008 | 2:07 PM

Dozens of Haitians were killed after the bus in which they were travelling reportedly plunged into a river.

Published:Friday | August 15, 2008 | 3:52 PM

Guyana\'s sugar industry has reportedly lost close to half a million US dollars as a result of a two-day strike by workers demanding higher wages.

Published:Friday | August 15, 2008 | 3:51 PM

Two women have been charged in connection with the murders of the British couple Ben and Catherine Mullany in Antigua.

Published:Friday | August 15, 2008 | 11:55 AM

The Royal Saint Lucia Police Force has been rocked by a scandal involving the alleged sexual abuse of two boys by policemen in separate incidents.

Published:Thursday | August 14, 2008 | 7:56 PM

Five teenagers, including a female, have been charged with last weekend’s murder of another teenager in Bermuda.

Published:Thursday | August 14, 2008 | 5:14 PM

Grenada’s Prime Minister Tillman Thomas is urging the private sector in Trinidad and Tobago to help to build a new platform for cooperation between the two countries.

Published:Thursday | August 14, 2008 | 11:28 AM

The authorities in Afghanistan said three foreign aid workers, including a Trinidadian, and their Afghan driver were killed yesterday in a province bordering the capital, Kabul.

Published:Wednesday | August 13, 2008 | 12:59 PM

Grenadian Prime Minister Tillman Thomas has not yet confirmed whether his country will sign on to Europe\'s Economic Partnership Agreement EPA by the September 2.

Published:Wednesday | August 13, 2008 | 11:37 AM

The Dominica government says it has held talks with Venezuela to provide agricultural products at a cheaper price to local farmers.

Published:Tuesday | August 12, 2008 | 8:00 PM

Antigua\'s opposition leader, Steadroy Benjamin is to appear in court next month over his alleged link to a case of passport fraud.

Published:Tuesday | August 12, 2008 | 7:58 PM

Cuba’s main human rights group is reporting that the number of political prisoners has dropped in the past six months.

Published:Tuesday | August 12, 2008 | 2:27 PM

Health experts in Venezuela are probing the cause of the deaths of nearly 40 indigenous Indians in the east of the country, close to the Guyana border.

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