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Kingston, Jamaica -- Minister of Local Government and Community Development Noel Arscott is expected to answer more questions today on the issue of payments to the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) for the use of streetlights. Speaker…

Georgetown, Guyana -- Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro on May 27 issued a decree creating the “Atlantic coast of Venezuela”, which now includes sovereignty over Guyana’s territorial waters in the Atlantic Ocean off the Essequibo region.…

Port of Spain, Trinidad -- The Trinidad Express has reported that a director of its ultimate parent company, One Caribbean Media Limited (OCM), is the owner of a Trinidad-based business that laundered money through black market currency…

Castries, St Lucia -- Following the success of such coalitions in Guyana, St Kitts and Nevis and Trinidad and Tobago, two senior members of the Lucian People’s Movement (LPM) have called for a similar national unity alliance in Saint Lucia.…

Kingston, Jamaica -- Reports have reached OBSERVER ONLINE that the Minister of Youth and Culture, Lisa Hanna was involved in a three-vehicle collision last night along Highway 2000. A police source told the Observer that Hanna was…

Nassau, Bahamas (CMC) -- Bahamian officials say they have intercepted a small speed boat with three "irregular" Haitian migrants on Sunday, bringing to eight the number of illegal migrants apprehended over the weekend. The authorities said…

Port of Spain, Trinidad -- Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday denied allegations by former United National Congress (UNC) chairman and government minister Jack Warner that funds from FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football…

Georgetown, Guyana -- Chief executive officer of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) Dr Raj Singh has been dismissed. GuySuCo has been suffering increased losses over the years. In 2014, the sugar corporation received a $6 billion (US$29…

Nassau, Bahamas -- Attorney General Allyson Maynard-Gibson confirmed on Wednesday night that US authorities have provided her with the name of the Bahamian who allegedly received a bribe from a French company over a decade ago to help that…

Port of Spain, Trinidad -- Former FIFA vice president and Trinidad Member of Parliament Jack Warner, in a paid political broadcast on Wednesday, threatened to reveal an “avalanche” of secrets compiled in a series of documents that he…

St John’s, Antigua -- A multi-million-dollar all-inclusive resort will open in Antigua in another two years, bringing with it 2,000 new jobs, government has disclosed. The agreement for the development of the 500-room resort under the…

Bridgetown, Barbados (BGIS) -- Barbados minister of finance, Christopher Sinckler, believes the time has come for the Caribbean to re-examine how it does business. Sinckler expressed this view on Monday, while delivering an address at the…

Kingstown, St Vincent -- The process of cleaning up the voters list in St Vincent and the Grenadines is soon to begin, which will see the number of registered voters significantly reduced. In the 2010 general election there were 101,067…

Kingston, Jamaica -- Scared by the supposedly demonic potential of the internet viral “Charlie Charlie” pencil and paper game, Jamaica’s ministry of education took the unusual step to ban the supposedly evil game from within the precincts…

Bridgetown -- The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has announced the signing of a grant agreement between the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ) and the CDB. The grant is valued at EUR213, 820, and was approved under the Caribbean Forum of…