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SANTO DOMINIGO, Dominican Republic (CMC) - The Dominican Republic says it is closing, temporarily, five of its consulates in Haiti due to security concerns in the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country. A spokesman for the…

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Noted attorney and senior member of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Harold Brady was today charged with fraud in relation to the sale of a property. He was questioned by members of the Fraud Squad. Police sources…

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Two women, ages 44 and 45, were on Wednesday shot dead less than six hours apart in the Red Hills Road area of Kingston, in what the police say stemmed from an ongoing feud in the volatile “100 Lane” community. In the…

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – The Barbados Government has defended allegations that the island does not welcome citizens from other Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries insisting that it had deported a “very small percentage” of people.…

(CMC)-- THE farming community of Newlands, St Thomas, was yesterday rocked to its core following the macabre murder of a 14-year-old girl by criminals who hacked the teenager to death and then dumped her mutilated body metres from her…

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA) -- Guyana’s allocation from the 11th European Development Fund (EDF) will amount to 34 million euros (US$38 million) until 2020 and will focus on climate change adaptation, disaster reduction and sustainable…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (HCNN) -- Oriel Jean, the former security chief of ex-president Jean-Bertrand Aristide and a key witness in murder allegations against him, was assassinated in Haiti on Monday afternoon. Jean had constantly been the…

ST THOMAS, Jamaica – The body of a 14-year-old girl was found this morning with several chop wounds in the Newlands Housing Scheme of St Thomas. Reports are that at about 4:30 am relatives found the child's body a few metres from her…

ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC) – Dominica is hoping that its decision to join the Trinidad and Tobago-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Friday will lead to other Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries following suit. Attorney General Levi…

CASTRIES, St Lucia (CMC) – Four men, including three from India will re-appear in court on March 11 on charges of human trafficking in St Lucia. Police said that the four men, including a national from Bangladesh, were arrested and charged…

TRELAWNY, Jamaica — The four men, three Dominica Republic nationals and a Spanish, who lost their lives in a motor vehicle collision early this morning along the Braco main road in Trelawny, were employees of a St Ann hotel. The identities…

NASSAU, Bahamas (CMC) – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders have failed to agree on a single candidate for the post of Secretary General of the Commonwealth, Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister Gaston Browne has said. The leaders, who…

Greater Georgetown, Guyana -- Prime Minister of Bahamas and Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) Perry Christie underscored on Thursday the need for the region to invest in its youth…

Kingston, Jamaica -- A St Andrew farmer is to be tried in the Gordon Town Resident Magistrate's Court for allegedly stabbing a man who was acting as a peacemaker in a dispute. The date was set on Thursday when accused Aston Morrison, 47,…

Port of Spain -- On Tuesday, the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) of Trinidad and Tobago was the recipient of new audio, video, networking and computer equipment at a handover ceremony at the offices of the PCA in downtown Port of Spain.…