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Kingstown, St Vincent -- The persistent problem of crime against visiting yachts in Canouan, St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), and the apparent failure on the part of local authorities to address the situation, has been taken up by local…

Castries, St Lucia (GIS) -- Saint Lucia’s Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Economic Affairs, Planning and Social Security, Dr Kenny Anthony, has said that the island’s economy is on the rebound. At a recent press conference,…

Kingston, Jamaica -- Jamaican police officers are heading to Haiti to help clamp down on the drugs for guns trade between the two countries. Police Commissioner Dr Carl Williams disclosed the move to strengthen collaboration between law…

St George’s, Grenada (GIS) -- Grenada and China are pressing ahead with plans to formalize an air services agreement. Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell made the announcement following his return from China, saying tourism was also among…

Bridgetown, Barbados (BGIS) -- Barbados Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite has sought to set the record straight on the issue of the outstanding legal fees totalling over US$1 million to the attorneys for Jamaican plaintiff Shanique Myrie…

Port of Spain, Trinidad -- Trinidad and Tobago’s newly sworn-in attorney general, Faris Al-Rawi, has asked for more time to consider the United States’ extradition case against former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner to face multiple…

St John’s, Antigua -- Montserrat students have been offered a scholarship to pursue studies at the American International College of Arts and Sciences (AICASA) or the American University of Antigua – College of Medicine (AUA). Following…

Georgetown, Guyana -- The secretary-general of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Irwin LaRocque, met with a delegation from St Maarten – one of five Caribbean countries seeking associate membership in CARICOM – on Monday at CARICOM…

Nassau, Bahamas -- The US Bankruptcy Court in Delaware dealt embattled developer Sarkis Izmirlian and Baha Mar Ltd a brutal blow on Tuesday when the court threw out Chapter 11 cases for all the Baha Mar companies based in The Bahamas,…

Port of Spain, Trinidad -- Sworn-in as Attorney General just last week following the People’s National Movement victory in the September 7th General Elections, Faris Al-Rawi has asked for more time to make a decision on signing the document…

Bridgetown, Barbados -- Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite says Barbados is not refusing to pay the legal fees for attorneys who represented Shanique Myrie in the case she won against this government. But he says there are queries about…

Kingston, Jamaica -- The lawyers who represented Jamaican Shanique Myrie in her case against the Barbados government are yet to be paid, almost two years after the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) ruled in her favour, according to the…

Kingston, Jamaica -- Education Minister Ronald Thwaites has said that, based on statistics, if young people remain in school, their likelihood of getting involved in criminality reduces. “Minister Bunting has statistics to show that if a…

Roseau, Dominica (CMC) -- The Dominica Government Tuesday ordered the closure of schools and urged public workers to remain at home as the island, still recovering from a battering it received from Tropical Storm Erika late last month, was…

Bridgetown, Barbados -- While the Barbados minister of health has called for the island’s nursing and hospice establishments, registered and unregistered, to step up to the plate, the Gentle Folks Nursing Home, which was featured by…