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Kingston, Jamaica -- Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said yesterday she received no money from Jack Warner to fund either her own or the United National Congress (UNC) election campaigns. Warner, a former government minister and UNC…

St George, Grenada (GIS) -- Citizens of Dominica, Grenada, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago may now travel visa-free to Schengen area countries, following the signing of a short-stay visa waiver agreement…

Chateaubelair, St Vincent -- Earlier this month, a chartered catamaran anchored by itself in the northern part of Chateaubelair, St Vincent, well away from the two or three other cruising boats anchored in the bay, was boarded at night by…

Kingston, Jamaica -- British newspaper, the Daily Mail is reporting online that two of Britain’s biggest banks have been dragged into the bribery and corruption scandal engulfing football’s world governing body. According to the Daily…

Bridgetown, Barbados (CMC) -- The US-based National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is predicting six to 11 named storms for the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season even as regional disaster officials warned Caribbean countries not to…

Georgetown, Guyana (GINA) -- President David Granger has dismissed claims that the new APNU/AFC coalition government in Guyana is a “large government,” and pointed out that there are fewer ministries than those under the previous…

Port of Spain, Trinidad -- Following his indictment in the US on eight counts of racketeering, fraud and money laundering, Trinidad member of parliament Jack Warner, former regional vice president of FIFA, was arrested and taken into…

Kingston, Jamaica -- Members of the Financial Investigations Division and police officers are now searching a number of locations in the Corporate Area and Spanish Town and Linstead areas of St Catherine, in an effort to gather evidence and…

Bridgetown, Barbados (CMC) -- Barbados achieved a record 171,471 long stay visitor arrivals during the first quarter of this year, breaking a long standing 25-year figure, chairman of the Barbados Tourism Marketing, Inc (BTMI), Alvin…

Kingston, Jamaica -- The police are still unable to provide an update on the whereabouts of a male prisoner who escaped police custody in St James on Monday. The man was hospitalised at the Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay when he…

Port of Spain, Trinidad (Trinidad Express) -- Political Leader of the Independent Liberal Party Jack Warner has spoken up in response to international news reports that he has been named as one of the people being sought by police in…

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…