HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC — Auditor General Heather Thomas has told the Bermuda government to get its accounts in order after “significant arrears” were found in financial statements covering a seven-year period. Thomas said 34...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Police have restored order to Savane Pistache, the second district in the capital, Port-au-Prince, after heavily armed gunmen set fire to several buildings and demanded the release of at least 17 people detained...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Sagicor Financial Corporation is seeking to reassure Caribbean customers that the move by the Canadian-based, Alignvest, to take over its operations will not adversely impact its business in the region and...
CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – The authorities in Martinique have dismantled a major drug trafficking operation between St Lucia and the French Caribbean territory. Five persons were arrested and a money counter was confiscated,...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – President David Granger late yesterday said arrangements were being made for discussions with Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo after he successfully tabled a motion of no confidence in the coalition government...
Published:Wednesday | December 19, 2018 | 12:40 PM
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – A 39-year-old man, who was found guilty of raping his wife four years ago, has been sentenced to 13 years in prison. An eight-member jury had, in November, also found the man, whose name or identity is being...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – Junior doctors have voted to take industrial action, two weeks after senior doctors ended their strike and nurses voted to strike over working conditions and salary increases. Health Minister Dr Duane Sands said...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government has announced the ban on the supply of regular gasoline on the local market because it had become uneconomical to do so following the closure of the state-owned oil refinery,...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas government has confirmed that a 61-year-old man has died from the HINI influenza, otherwise known as swine flu. Health Minister Dr Duane Sands, who was unable to provide any specifics about the case,...
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – President of the Concerned Citizens Movement Loftus Durand is urging supporters to take to the streets on Monday until there is electoral reform in Dominica despite last weekend use of tear gas by police to disperse...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – Seven fishermen from the Dominican Republic were fined more than US$2.8 million after they pleaded guilty to poaching in Bahamian waters last weekend. The seven, Fausto Garcia, Gabriel Pailora, Carlos Duran, Ramon Lopez...
NEW YORK, CMC –A Grenadian American lawyer in Brooklyn has been indicted on a grand larceny charge for allegedly withholding proceeds from the US$1.7 million sale of a building in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn owned by a...
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada (CMC) – Grenada police have declared a zero-tolerance policy against the use of pyrotechnic material such as firecrackers, scratch bombs, sparklers, and other similar explosives during the Christmas season....
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – The Barbados government says it will provide employees at the Grantley Adams International Airport with an opportunity to become shareholders in a company under an arrangement which will also result in the airport...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – United States food company Del Monte Foods has recalled over 60,000 cases of incompletely sterilised canned corn from eight countries in the region. The countries affected by the recall are Guyana, Bahamas,...
Published:Wednesday | December 12, 2018 | 10:42 AM
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC - Leader of the Opposition in St Kitts and Nevis Dr Denzil Douglas has filed a motion of no confidence against Prime Minister Dr Timothy Harris. Douglas is contending that the Prime Minister presents a...
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – People who knowingly infect others with HIV could face criminal prosecution if the government accepts the recommendations of a parliamentary committee established to review several pieces of legislation including the...
HAMILTON, Bermuda - School teachers in Bermuda have returned to the classroom after their sick-out yesterday following a call from Education Commissioner Kalmar Richards. Teachers initially started their industrial action to...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad- Caribbean Airline was robbed of more than TT$80,000 on Monday by a man posing as a security guard. The thief managed to deceive employees at the Piarco International Airport by dressing in the uniform of the...
GENEVA, CMC – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) says a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) indicates road traffic deaths in the Caribbean and other places continue to rise, with an annual 1.35 million fatalities....
PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC – The Suriname-based CARICOM Competition Commission says any impact the proposed acquisition of Scotiabank by the Trinidad-based Republic Financial Holdings Limited will be assessed in accordance with the Revised...
HAVANA (AP) — Cuba announced Tuesday night that its citizens will be offered full internet access for mobile phones beginning this week, becoming one of the last nations to offer such service. Mayra Arevich, president of the Cuban state...
GUATEMALA CITY, CMC – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) says Caribbean countries are seeking to consolidate measures to maintain elimination and avoid reintroduction of poliomyelitis, or polio, as it is commonly called. PAHO said...
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – The Bermuda government is to crack down on loan sharks. The House of Assembly heard that loan sharks have worsened the problems of people in financial difficulty. Junior Finance Minister Wayne Furbert said he knew of...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders began a two-day special summit in Trinidad and Tobago on Monday discussing ways of improving the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) that was intended to deepen the...
