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St George’s, Grenada -- Some members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Grenada are said to be clamouring for a return of former prime minister Tillman Thomas to head the party, a local newspaper is reporting. Thomas…

Kingston, Jamaica -- A May Pen labourer who attempted to smuggle over two pounds of ganja to Curacao has been remanded for sentencing next month. Twenty-four- year-old Shandell Williams entered a guilty plea to the charges possession of…

Port of Spain, Trinidad -- In a statement on Wednesday, issued following the shootings at the Canadian parliament in Ottawa, Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister drew a parallel with the 1990 attempted coup that involved a violent assault…

Nassau, Bahamas -- In a move he acknowledged was likely to ruffle feathers, Minister of Financial Services Ryan Pinder said on Wednesday it is time to allow select foreign law firms to operate within The Bahamas’ financial services…

Bridgetown, Barbados -- The government of Belize will receive an additional loan of US$4.584 million from the Caribbean Development Bank for an ongoing road safety project. The original loan of US$7.248 million was approved in 2012, but…

Willemstad, Curacao -- Curacao wants to get rid of the Netherlands-appointed governor, who must in turn approve ministerial appointments by law. A parliamentary motion has been filed to this effect and, with this, the way will be open to…

Port of Spain, Trinidad -- Trinidad and Tobago now has about 1,000 suspected cases of chikungunya. This was revealed yesterday by Chief Medical Officer at the Minis¬try of Health Dr Colin Furlonge, who said key stakeholders in the fight…

Kingston, Jamaica -- The People’s National Party (PNP) has expressed solidarity with Canada following Wednesday morning’s shooting attack at their Parliament in Ottawa, Ontario. “This display of ‘proximity terrorism’ and attack on the…

Kingstown, St. Vincent CMC -- Police are searching for the gunmen who shot and killed two people here including a 24-year-old woman on Monday night. Police said that Aninka Stowe, a mother of an eight-year-old girl, died at the Milton Cato…

Kingston, Jamaica -- The Government has issued guidelines to operators of funeral establishments and mortuaries geared at preventing the transmission of infectious diseases as it cautions members of the public to cease spreading…

Port of Spain, Trinidad -- “THE EVIL men doeth, live after them and at times even while they are still alive”. This was a line contained in a statement issued on Tuesday by Minster of National Security Gary Griffith following the barring…

Havana, Cuba -- Presidents Evo Morales of Bolivia and Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela agreed on the success of a recent summit of the countries within the regional bloc known as Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of the Americas-Commercial…

Kingston, Jamaica, CMC -- The Governments of Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, on Thursday issued an immediate travel bans against certain persons traveling directly or indirectly from some countries in West Africa. In Jamaica – the…

Port of Spain, Trinidad (Trinidad Express) -- Jamaican beauty Rachel Biesray has won the Miss Divali Nagar 2014 crown. Biesray got the judges’ nod over 11 other delegates who participated in the show at the National Council of Indian…

Kingstown, St Vincent -- The first Council of Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) health ministers meeting held on last Thursday in Kingstown, St Vincent and the Grenadines, identified chikungunya and Ebola as the most urgent…