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KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Ministry of Health today announced that there is no ban on e-cigarettes contrary to earlier reports. On Monday the Jamaica Customs Agency said that it had halted the clearance of electronic cigarettes from the wharf…

ROSEAU, Dominica -- The newly launched Hummingbird Airlines has been operating flights in and from Canefield Airport in Dominica every Thursday and Sunday since July 11, 2014. Proprietor of Hummingbird Airlines, Samuel Raphael, said…

Castries, St Lucia -- Allen Chastanet, the embattled political leader of the opposition United Workers party (UWP) in Saint Lucia, may be facing a new challenge at the party’s convention next month. Local economist Dr Claudius Preville, a…

Port of Spain, Trinidad -- Opposition leader Dr Keith Rowley responded to the Trinidad and Tobago government’s budget proposals in Parliament on Friday. In a two-hour statement, he criticised what he described as the increasing annual…

Bridgetown, Barbados -- The Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) has pledged financial support towards the launch of Start Up Jamaica, as part of the regional private sector development programme (RPSDP) funded by the…

Nassau, Bahamas -- After months of threatening to take industrial action, Trade Union Congress (TUC) president Obie Ferguson said on Tuesday thousands of workers across The Bahamas could withdraw their labour as early as Wednesday over…

Bridgetown, Barbados (BGIS) -- With over 40 years’ experience in the development of solar water heating, Barbados stands ready to lend assistance to other countries in establishing their own programmes. This was disclosed by minister of…

Kingston, Jamaica -- Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health, Dr Jean Dixon, has retired from public service, effective Friday, September 5, 2014, the Ministry confirmed in a statement late Wednesday (September 10). Dr Dixon served…

Bridgetown, Barbados -- The Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) and the Caribbean Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (CAIPA) have announced the second hosting of the Caribbean’s Regional Investor of the Year…

BRADES, Montserrat -- Montserrat will be holding its general election on Thursday, which will be hotly contested by 31 candidates. There are two main parties contesting the election. These are the newly formed People’s Democratic Movement…

MANCHESTER, Jamaica -- The Manchester Police have confirmed that a businessman was shot and injured in the parish Sunday night. It is reported that at about 7:30pm three gun men entered the businessman’s establishment in the New…

Port of Spain, Trinidad -- Following a report last Monday by Caribbean News Now that that laptop computers supplied by the Trinidad and Tobago government to local schoolchildren have been found to contain “spyware”, education minister Dr…

St George’s, Grenada -- Sunday marked the ten-year anniversary of the devastation caused by Hurricane Ivan, which passed directly over Grenada on September 7, 2004, as a category three storm, killing 39 people. The capital, St George's,…

Castries, St Lucia -- No matter how bad things are, with the threat of a five percent wage cut, on top of reduced budget allocation and reduced human resources, the Royal Saint Lucia Police Force (RSLPF) somehow found confidence in…

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Nine people wanted for a range of crimes were today arrested and makeshift dwellings demolished during a police operation at Shoemaker Gully in New Kingston. Reports are that about 11:30 am, police and staff from the…