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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- The Central Bank of Barbados has tried to backtrack on a letter Governor Dr DeLisle Worrell sent last week to the chief executive officer and publisher of the Nation newspaper, Vivian-Anne Gittens, stating that…

ST JAMES, Jamaica -- A signed statement of a man who is now deceased indicates that on June 2, 2012 Trinidadian schoolteacher Michelle Coudray-Greaves was seen alive in the car of a man sporting dread-locks. Coudray-Greaves’ charred…

ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC) – Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer has called on the European Union to provide funds for two projects in his homeland and St. Kitts-Nevis which he said will have an immense impact on the tourism…

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- An earthquake occurred in eastern Jamaica Sunday night about 8:44. The Earthquake Unit at the University of the West Indies confirmed the quake as magnitude 3.4. It was felt in the Buff Bay area of Portland as well as…

CASTRIES, St Lucia -- Political leader of the Lucian People’s Movement (LPM), Therold Prudent, has urged public sector unions to reject government proposals to cut civil service wages until other pressing financial and economic issues have…

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -- Trinidad and Tobago defence attorney Wayne Sturge said he has received three death threats over the last 12 months but did not take them seriously. “I have gotten serious threats in the last 12 months,…

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) – Haiti has confirmed 14 cases of the mosquito-borne chikungunya disease that has been affecting the region since it was first detected in the Caribbean in December last year. Health Minister Florence Guillaume…

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Minister of Education Ronald Thwaites says that the subsidy to early childhood educators will be increased by 15 per cent this year. Thwaites made the disclosure during his presentation in the Sectoral Debate Wednesday…

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) – Governor of the Bank of Guyana, Lawrence Williams died Wednesday less than 24 hour after he was admitted to the Dr Balwant Singh Hospital. Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon confirmed that Williams who was…

Port-of-Spain, Trinidad -- Closures of hotels and cruise ports due to outbreaks of communicable diseases, environmental challenges like climate change, and poor health and wellness in the tourism workforce, can result in significant losses…

Bridgetown, Barbados (BGIS) -- Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has described the recent sixth summit of heads of state and government of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) as “exceeding the expectations of those attending”.…

Roseau, Dominica -- Lennox Linton, leader of the opposition United Workers Party (UWP) in Dominica, said he is appalled at Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit’s comments at the Dominica Labour Party (DLP) convention on Monday. Linton said,…

Kingston, Jamaica -- Science, Technology, Energy and Mining Minister, Phillip Paulwell has announced that University of Technology President, Professor Errol Morrison is to be made Jamaica’s Science and Technology Czar. Morrison has been…

Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- Cuba says it foiled a terrorist plot by Cuban exiles to attack military facilities on the island and has arrested four U.S. residents, Cuban officials said Wednesday. According to an Interior Ministry statement, the…

ST JAMES, Jamaica – Helping journalist  Huntley Medley prepare for his mother's funeral some three weeks ago Simone Grossett wouldn't have thought that her family would now be arranging her burial. Allegedly stabbed to death by her…