Regional

Nassau, Bahamas -- It remains unclear when Bahamians will receive answers over the report that a Bahamian official accepted $325,000 in bribes to swing Bahamas Electricity Corporation (BEC) contracts to a French company over a decade ago.…

Castries, St Lucia -- Invest Saint Lucia last week hosted a series of consultations with relevant stakeholders to determine the way forward for establishing Saint Lucia as a preferred location for investments in medical research and…

Nassau, Bahamas (CMC) -- Police say they have arrested four American citizens for possession of drugs. A police statement said that the three men and one woman from Florida were arrested on Sunday after officers from the Tourism Policing…

Bridgetown, Barbados (CMC) -- Chief selector Clive Lloyd says allowing Shiv Chanderpaul to continue playing in order to surpass Brian Lara as the highest run-getter in West Indies cricket, was not a good enough reason to retain the veteran…

Kingston, Jamaica (JIS) -- Prime Minister Portia Simpson has commended the volunteers who came out to work on the Rudolf Elder Park in Morant Bay, St Thomas, which was the National Labour Day project. She said the strong turnout of…

Georgetown, Guyana (CMC) -- A magistrate has ordered former Guyana president Bharrat Jagdeo that he should not leave the country without the court’s permission after he appeared in court on Monday on the charge of making racially divisive…

St George, Barbados -- Gentle Folks Nursing Home located on breezy grounds, coconut tree-trimmed streets and the quiet of St George in Barbados is under investigation by the island’s ministry of health compliance officers following reports…

Georgetown, Guyana (GINA) -- Guyana looks to be set to join the group of oil producing nations, as news was made public by ExxonMobil that it has found a deposit of a 'significant' amount of oil in the Stabroek Block, some 120 nautical…

Port of Spain, Trinidad (Trinidad Express) -- Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has said the general election date will be announced once Parliament is dissolved on June 17. Addressing the TV6 town meeting at the Plaza Siparia…

Havana, Cuba, (CMC) -- Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic, has presented former Cuban President, Fidel Castro the Order of the Serbian Republic. The order was given to the former president for his “outstanding contribution to developing…

Bridgetown, Barbados (BGIS) -- Three local internet service providers (ISPs) signed a memorandum of understanding on Monday to establish the Barbados Internet Exchange (BARIX). Representatives of Cable and Wireless (Barbados) Limited,…

Port of Spain, Trinidad -- The registrar of the Integrity Commission in Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday indicated that that there are no or insufficient grounds for continuing its investigation into the so-called ‘emailgate’ allegations and…

Castries, St Lucia -- Following an emergency meeting of the opposition United Workers Party (UWP) executive in Saint Lucia on Monday, reportedly for the purpose of requesting all opposition parliamentarians to resign their seats in order to…

Georgetown, Guyana (CMC) -- The main Opposition People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) maintaining that the May 11 regional and general elections had been flawed, says it plans to embark on country-wide protest action. In a statement,…

St George’s, Grenada (CRFM) -- In a milestone development for the region, fisheries ministers recently endorsed a new declaration on spiny lobster -- a highly traded marine species in the Caribbean -- at the ninth meeting of the Ministerial…