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Published:Wednesday | May 7, 2008 | 2:56 PM

The Antigua and Barbuda government has reopened its Temporary Residence Division of the Immigration Department.

Published:Wednesday | May 7, 2008 | 2:02 PM

Striking teachers in Suriname said they would not return to work until outstanding issues with the government are resolved.

Published:Tuesday | May 6, 2008 | 2:54 PM

The government of Trinidad and Tobago has earmarked about 20,000 acres of land to be converted to farms.

Published:Tuesday | May 6, 2008 | 2:54 PM

The Windward Islands Banana Development Company (WIBDECO) and the St. Lucia Banana Corporation (SLBC) have agreed to discontinue a court battle for control of the local banana industry.

Published:Tuesday | May 6, 2008 | 2:20 PM

The United Nations (UN) is seeking to recruit police officers from St. Lucia and Dominica to work in Haiti.

Published:Monday | May 5, 2008 | 5:46 PM

United States officials said the Dominican Republic has become the main Caribbean transit route for drugs smuggled into the US.

Published:Monday | May 5, 2008 | 5:45 PM

A New York judge has put a stop order on the release of information to the media in the case against a Guyanese-born man accused along with three others, of plotting to blow up the John F. Kennedy International Airport.

Published:Monday | May 5, 2008 | 5:41 PM

The Nevis Island Administration (NIA) is cutting consumption tax on a number of items by some 10 percent in that country.

Published:Monday | May 5, 2008 | 5:40 PM

The National Workers Movement in St. Vincent and the Grenadines is calling for the government and employers to aggressively seek to help the country’s workers cope with the global food crisis.

Published:Monday | May 5, 2008 | 12:34 PM

The countries of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean Startes (OECS) have launched a year-long public consultation on a possible economic union.

Published:Friday | May 2, 2008 | 4:26 PM

President of the Jamaica-Antigua Association, Andy McDonald, is accusing the Antiguan government of targeting Jamaicans.

Published:Friday | May 2, 2008 | 4:26 PM

A court in the British Virgin Islands, BVI has slapped what\'s believed to be a record penalty on an offshore finance company.

Published:Friday | May 2, 2008 | 4:25 PM

The opposition Peoples Action Movement in St Kitts and Nevis is accusing the Denzil Douglas administration of failing to keep a promise to enact integrity legislation.

Published:Thursday | May 1, 2008 | 3:39 PM

The National Workers Movement in St. Vincent and the Grenadines is calling for the government and employers to aggressively seek to help the country’s workers cope with the global food crisis.

Published:Thursday | May 1, 2008 | 3:39 PM

The Nevis Island Administration (NIA) is cutting consumption tax on a number of items by some 10 percent in that country.

Published:Thursday | May 1, 2008 | 12:15 PM

A top Chinese government official has sent a strong warning to Caribbean governments that Beijing will not compromise on its One China Policy.

Published:Thursday | May 1, 2008 | 8:31 AM

Two Haitians were killed when a tug boat anchored in Sandy Point, North Caicos suddenly exploded.

Published:Thursday | May 1, 2008 | 8:30 AM

St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves has claimed that local drug lords have hired an overseas assassin to kill him as a direct reprisal for work being done by his government to combat drugs and money laundering.

Published:Wednesday | April 30, 2008 | 11:37 AM

The Prime Minister of Belize, Dean Barrow, has announced a series of measures to deal with spiralling food prices.

Published:Tuesday | April 29, 2008 | 3:20 PM

President of Cuba Raul Castro said nearly all death sentences in that country will be converted to prison terms of between 30 years and life.

Published:Tuesday | April 29, 2008 | 12:26 PM

Guyana’s Opposition party, Peoples National Congress said it is blaming the government for the rising prices of basic food items.

Published:Monday | April 28, 2008 | 3:18 PM

The President of Haiti, Rene Preval, has nominated a new Prime Minister as part of efforts to prevent further unrest triggered by rises in the price of food and fuel.

Published:Monday | April 28, 2008 | 3:17 PM

The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States secretariat has elected Justice Hugh Anthony Rawlins to be the next Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court.

Published:Monday | April 28, 2008 | 12:02 PM

Two former regional Prime Ministers will be among several international personalities at a Group of 77 and China two-day meeting in Antigua this week.

Published:Friday | April 25, 2008 | 1:43 PM

A judge in The Bahamas has cleared three men of killing a British toddler who was struck by an out of control speedboat as he lay sleeping on a beach.

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