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Published:Tuesday | August 12, 2008 | 2:26 PM

Hundreds of workers at the state owned Telecommunications Company in the Bahamas are on strike.

Published:Tuesday | August 12, 2008 | 10:30 AM

Antigua’s Opposition Leader Steadroy Benjamin yesterday appeared in court on the heels of accusations that he certified a fraudulent passport application.

Published:Tuesday | August 12, 2008 | 10:29 AM

The Caribbean Regional Workshop on the Implementation of the Convention on Tobacco Control is expected to get underway in Kingston today.

Published:Monday | August 11, 2008 | 2:19 PM

Spain has reportedly pledged US$100 million to help revitalise Haiti\'s agriculture industry as well as rebuild roads and schools.

Published:Monday | August 11, 2008 | 2:18 PM

One of Guyana\'s television stations (CNS) Channel 6 is now back on air, after its broadcast licence was suspended for four months.

Published:Monday | August 11, 2008 | 11:37 AM

Police Commissioner George Jackson has dismissed fellow Vincentian Allan Palmer from the Bermuda Police Service (BPS) over an allegedly malicious blog the officer kept.

Published:Friday | August 8, 2008 | 2:59 PM

Guyana\'s National Assembly has unanimously agreed to ban music in chartered cars and mini-buses.

Published:Friday | August 8, 2008 | 10:04 AM

The Security Minister in Guyana Clement Rohee has criticised the Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB), handling of a component of a US$22 million Citizens’ Security Programme it has financed.

Published:Thursday | August 7, 2008 | 3:57 PM

Cuban officials said the island is modernising its sugar industry but that plans to increase ethanol production have been scaled back.

Published:Thursday | August 7, 2008 | 11:04 AM

The police in Guyana said they expect Brazil to hand over two key suspects in the 2005 killing of two American missionaries near the border with the Brazilian state of Roraima.

Published:Tuesday | August 5, 2008 | 5:55 PM

The Internet Gaming dispute between Antigua and Barbuda and The United States continues.

Published:Tuesday | August 5, 2008 | 3:34 PM

The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) is expressing concern about the authenticity of School Based Assessments (SBAs) it has been receiving.

Published:Tuesday | August 5, 2008 | 9:18 AM

The Director General of the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM), Henry Gill, said all is set for the September 2 signing of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Europe, despite calls for the new trade deal to be renegotiated.

Published:Tuesday | August 5, 2008 | 9:18 AM

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said it is providing US$4 million worth of seeds and tools to thousands of farmers in Haiti.

Published:Tuesday | August 5, 2008 | 9:11 AM

The Director General of the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM), Henry Gill, said all is set for the September 2 signing of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Europe, despite calls for the new trade deal to be renegotiated.

Published:Monday | August 4, 2008 | 2:42 PM

Ecuador is pushing to revive failed banana talks with the European Union in October.

Published:Monday | August 4, 2008 | 2:40 PM

Barbados is to identify a minimum set of economic rights to which CARICOM immigrants will be entitled under the freedom of movement provisions of the Single Market and Economy.

Published:Monday | August 4, 2008 | 9:38 AM

A week after he was critically injured in a gun attack in Antigua, which claimed the life of his bride, Benjamin Mullany was yesterday pronounced dead by a British hospital.

Published:Thursday | July 31, 2008 | 6:25 PM

Officials in Haiti say a group of former soldiers have ended a standoff with police and United Nations peacekeepers.

Published:Thursday | July 31, 2008 | 6:25 PM

The resignation of the Dominican opposition leader Earl Williams of the United Workers Party has prompted calls from the other opposition party on the island, for Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit to also step down.

Published:Thursday | July 31, 2008 | 1:54 PM

CARICOM Secretary General, Dr. Edwin Carrington is warning against negative comments, he fears could hurt the region\'s integration movement.

Published:Thursday | July 31, 2008 | 1:53 PM

Antiguan Prime Minister, Baldwin Spencer wants Scotland Yard to help solve the murder of British bride Catherine Mullany and the shooting of her husband.

Published:Thursday | July 31, 2008 | 9:41 AM

Barbados and Venezuela appear to be headed for a dispute over oil exploration.

Published:Wednesday | July 30, 2008 | 6:26 PM

A reward of more than 60 thousand pounds has been offered for information leading to the conviction of the killer of a British doctor on honeymoon in Antigua.

Published:Wednesday | July 30, 2008 | 6:23 PM

Bahamian authorities are searching for a number of Haitians who they fear may have drowned after they jumped into the sea yesterday in a bid to enter the country illegally.

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