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(Caribbean 360) Government has announced that its debt exchange offer launched a month ago received the overwhelming support of local creditors. Holders of 94 per cent of the country’s U.S. Dollar Bonds due 2025 and 100 per cent of E.C.…

The Colombian Coast Guard rescued 20 Cuban migrants, on Sunday, who were on a boat that had been abandoned by human traffickers in the Gulf of Uraba, the Navy said. The migrants, 15 men and five women, were found aboard the boat adrift in…

The Minister of National Security, Edmund Dillon, has strongly condemned the recent increase in homicides in Trinidad and Tobago, especially the spate of attacks on the lives of National Security officers. Dillon expressed concern that…

(Caribbean 360) Every time someone showers, shampoos, applies moisturizers or sunscreens, they expose themselves to dozens of controversial, possibly harmful chemicals. Called parabens, these chemicals may be more dangerous at low doses…

(Antigua Observer) Antigua & Barbuda - Former Principal of State College Peecheta Spencer is championing the calls for the Five Island secondary school to remain as the intended purpose — a school for students in the neighbouring…

(Dominica News Online) A magnitude 4.5 earthquake occurred in Dominica on Tuesday, November 3, the US Geological Survey is reporting. The quake occurred at 1:32 pm about four kilometers east of Roseau at a depth 143.4 kilometers. There…

(Jamaica Observer) Kingston, Jamaica - APPLETON Estate in St Elizabeth is to send home 100 workers, or roughly 30 per cent of its workforce, according to reports from the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU). In addition, deputy island…

(St. Lucia News Online) Police have launched an investigation into a recent gang rape that occurred in Rodney Bay, Gros-Islet on Monday, between 10:00 and10:30 p.m. Police Public Relations Officer Zachary Hippolyte confirmed with St. Lucia…

(Caribbean 360) PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Haiti will improve the efficiency and safety of its transportation systems and will advance regional and international integration with a US$65 million grant from the Inter-American Development Bank…

Crime overall in Saint Lucia, particularly homicides and murders, have decreased. That’s according to the Third Quarter Crime Statistics Report 2015 revealed by Acting Police Commissioner Errol Alexander and his team which spoke at a press…

CARICOM climate change negotiators and ministers began a two-day meeting in St. Lucia today, to revise and improve the region`s negotiating artillery in preparation for the 21st session of the Conference of Parties (COP 21) to the United…

In an effort to expand its economic partners, Suriname has forged strong ties with the Islamic world by accelerating its engagement with the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) over the past five years. Paramaribo has now positioned…

Senator Kenneth Gittens, Chairman of the Committee on Rules and Judiciary (USVI) is advising the general public, through a press release issued on Monday, of upcoming working sessions in the continued series on Election Reform. “This next…

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said, in New York, that the no vote by the US against the Cuban resolution demanding the lifting of the economic embargo on the island does not fit in with Washington’s discourse about working to lift…

(Jamaica Observer) Port of Spain, Trinidad - The severed head of a man was found on Wednesday at a concrete dumpster in what is described as a crime 'hot spot' in Port of Spain, Trinidad. The gruesome discovery was made about 6:00 am by…