CARACAS, (AP):President Hugo Chávez has been receiving chemotherapy since recovering from a severe respiratory infection in mid-January and "continues his battle for life," his vice-president said late last Friday.Vice-president Nicolas Maduro suggested...
WASHINGTON (AP):With severe spending cuts now the law of the land, President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans refused yesterday to concede any culpability for failing to stave off what both parties acknowledged was a foolhardy way to slash...
PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC): A pastor with the Seventh-day Adventist Church is claiming that Latin American assassins are operating in Trinidad and Tobago and called for an all out war on crime."We have Latin American assassins in this country.
WASHINGTON (AP):The Associated Press has learned that the Homeland Security Department official in charge of the agency's immigration enforcement-and-removal operations has resigned after hundreds of illegal immigrants were released from jails because...
NASSAU CMC: Law-enforcement officials say they have apprehended nearly 100 illegal Haitian immigrants after landing at Landrail Point in Crooked Island.
PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC): Pressure mounted on Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday to dismiss her National Security Minister Austin 'Jack' Warner over the existence of "an illegal Flying Squad" operating in Trinidad and Tobago.
ST JOHN'S (CMC): The Antigua and Barbuda government is offering an EC$100,000 (One EC dollar = US$0.37 cents) reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the brazen daylight murder of a mother on Tuesday.
CONNECTICUT (AP):A woman who picked up her two young grandsons from day care and was supposed to bring them home so the two year-old could open his birthday presents, instead drove them to a neighbouring town and shot and killed the children and...
Published:Wednesday | February 27, 2013 | 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON (CMC):In a move clearly designed to save money, the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency says it has released a number of Caribbean and other immigrant detainees from jails and detention centres...
Published:Wednesday | February 27, 2013 | 12:00 AM
MEXICALI (AP): Police in the border city of Mexicali say they have recovered a powerful improvised cannon used to hurl packets of marijuana across a border fence into California....
Luxor Governor Ezzat Saad told reporters that the casualties included French, British, Belgian, Hungarian, Japanese nationals and nine tourists from Hong Kong.
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC):Journalist Darryl Heeralal was dismissed yesterday after he posted racist remarks on his Facebook page regarding protest action by residents of a poor neighbourhood following a vehicular accident that left four people dead,...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP):Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has sent a message to Raul Castro, congratulating him for his re-election as Cuba's president.Cuban lawmakers re-elected Castro on Sunday.
HAVANA (AP): Miguel Diaz-Canel has five years to get started and a lot of work to do.The man tapped as Cuban President Raul Castro's chief lieutenant and likely successor must quietly fend off any challenges from within the Communist-run island's...
Hamilton, Bermuda (CMC):Community Development Minister Wayne Scott says government has ruled out giving the green light to same-sex marriages.Government said earlier this month it proposed to amend the island's Human Rights Act by adding sexual...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): The murder case involving Olympic star Oscar Pistorius took another unexpected turn yesterday with the news that his older brother, Carl, is himself facing charges for the death of a woman in a traffic accident....
LONDON (CMC): Amnesty International is urging the US state of Florida to halt the execution of a Jamaican drug trafficker convicted for killing a state trooper with a pipe bomb....
