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Port of Spain, Trinidad (CMC) -- Trinidad and Tobago National Security Minister Gary Griffith has extended an invitation to Jamaica’s Foreign Affairs Minister AJ Nicholson to visit Port of Spain for talks on immigration issues between the…

Roseau, Dominica -- Leader of the opposition United Workers Party (UWP), Lennox Linton, has accused Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit and the Dominica Labour Party (DLP) of using state resources for vote buying in their political…

Georgetown, Guyana (GINA) -- A public-private partnership is underway in Guyana that will see the creation of 400 to 500 jobs and will take the country a step further on the green pathway. The Institute of Applied Science and Technology…

Paramaribo, Suriname -- The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) nation of Suriname says the focus of agriculture in the 15-member body at this time should be food security rather than marijuana cultivation. CARICOM has set up a commission to…

Georgetown, Guyana (GINA) -- Guyana has a mass preparedness campaign on-stream as the Ebola virus continues to cause worldwide uproar. This is according to Dr Johanna Cole, Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation’s (GPHC) internal…

Kingston, Jamaica -- A woman was Tuesday morning stabbed to death during a dispute with her boyfriend at their Montego Bay St James home. The boyfriend was hospitalised after sustaining stab wounds as well. Reports reaching OBSERVER…

Kingston, Jamaica -- A man died after sustaining injuries in a motor vehicle collision along the Runaway Bay main road in St Ann last night. It is reported that about 7:50 pm, 27-year-old Thereon Powell was driving a Toyota Corolla…

Port Au Prince, Haiti (CMC) -- Former Haiti president Jean Bertrand Aristide is due to appear in court Friday after the judge investigating alleged corruption charges against him issued an extraction order for his appearance. The order of…

Georgetown, Guyana -- The oil and gas rich Republic of Azerbaijan's ambassador to Guyana, Elnur Sultanov, on Wednesday presented his credentials to President Donald Ramotar in Georgetown. Sultanov became Azerbaijan's first ambassador to…

Port of Spain, Trinidad -- The National Carnival Commission (NCC) is contemplating postponing Carnival celebrations in 2015 due to fears associated with the Ebola virus that has claimed the lives of thousands of people mainly in West…

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Criminals have again struck in the community of August Town. Police report that a man believed to be an influential member of the community was shot dead at his home in the area. The lawmen said the killing comes two…

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (Trinidad Express) -- A KFC cashier who is accused of dousing a customer with hot oil, causing him to be hospitalised with secondary burns about his body, was yesterday placed on $45,000 bail. Erica Fonrose, 32,…

Kingston, Jamaica -- Opposition spokesman on finance and planning Audley Shaw, says that a weakness with the Insolvency Bill, which was passed by the House of Representatives on Tuesday, is the lack of protection for debtors, who are…

Port au Prince, Haiti -- The death of former Haitian ruler Jean-Claude Duvalier must not halt the investigations and prosecutions owed to thousands of people killed, tortured, arbitrarily arrested and disappeared under his regime, Amnesty…

Port of Spain, Trinidad -- High Court judge Justice Frank Seepersad has dismissed as premature a constitutional motion filed by the Independent Liberal Party (ILP) challenging the constitutionality of the Constitution Amendment Bill in…