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Bahamas MP slams government for employing foreign PR firm

Nassau, Bahamas -- The Christie administration’s Stronger Bahamas initiative is nothing more than a “massive propaganda program” being run by foreigners that is “shamelessly and disgracefully” paid for by taxpayers, Bahamas MP Loretta…

A latter day Caribbean Al Capone?

Port of Spain, Trinidad -- Al Capone, the Chicago gangster during the Prohibition era, whose name is synonymous with organised crime in America, was charged with numerous criminal offences ranging from vagrancy to murder. However, the only…

Gov’t obtains injunction against Police Federation

Kingston, Jamaica -- Amidst protest action from some members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force to the Goverment's five per cent wage offer, an injunction was late Tuesday obtained by the Attorney General against the Police Federation. See…

Former Dominican head of state dies

Roseau, Dominica (CMC) -- Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has led the nation in paying tribute to Dr Nicholas Liverpool, Dominica’s sixth head of state, who died on Monday. He was 80 years-old. In a radio broadcast, Skerrit praised the…

Six Caribbean banks implicated in FIFA corruption scandal

Port of Spain, Trinidad -- According to the 166-page indictment in United States vs. Jeffrey Webb, et al, in which many senior FIFA officials and others are charged with multiple counts of racketeering, money laundering and wire fraud…

St Vincent to use EU visa waiver to lobby Canada

Kingstown, St Vincent (CMC) -- St Vincent and the Grenadines will use the visa-free travel agreement it signed with the European Union last week to re-launch its lobby for the reinstatement of a similar privilege for Vincentian passport…

Bahamas builds resilience against a surging sea

Nassau, Bahamas -- Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have championed the phrase “1.5 to stay alive” in demanding that global temperature increases be kept as far below 1.5 degrees C as possible to limit the anticipated devastating…

St Lucia investment agency CEO called on to resign

Castries, St Lucia -- The leader of the Lucian People’s Movement (LPM), Therold Prudent, has called for the resignation of McHale Andrew, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Invest St Lucia, the government’s inward investment agency.…

Extradition proceedings not political, says Trinidad AG

Port of Spain, Trinidad -- The attorney general of Trinidad and Tobago, Senator Garvin Nicholas, has emphasised that the extradition proceedings currently underway against member of parliament Jack Warner following his indictment in the US…

Robber shot dead while fleeing scene

Kingston, Jamaica -- The police have reported that an unidentified man was shot dead shortly after robbing a woman on a public passenger vehicle on Sunday. The lawmen say the incident happened about 10:45 am, when the unidentified male…