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CASTRIES, St Lucia -- According to British newspaper, The Mail on Sunday, a prominent hotelier recently murdered in Saint Lucia may have been caught up in a money-laundering scheme that cost him his life. Friends of millionaire Oliver…

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - THE Vindra Naipaul-Coolman murder trial was yesterday adjourned to next Monday, after a member of the prosecuting team broke down and cried. Presiding Judge Malcolm Holdip decided it would have been too difficult…

KINGSTON, Jamaica — A woman, who thought she was purchasing chicken and cooking oil recently, instead ended up with a box of stones, a bottle of water, and $5,000 out of pocket. The shifty 'salesman' is to be sentenced on May 21, having…

ORANJESTAD, Aruba (CMC) – The head of the Caribbean Public Health Authority (CARPHA), Dr James Hospedales, has declared the Chikungunya virus has reached epidemic proportions in the Caribbean. “By definition this is an epidemic since it…

Bridgetown, Barbados (BGIS) -- Barbados and other Caribbean Community (CARICOM) states are mapping out a legal and strategic plan of action that is designed to persuade slave-trading European nations to “come to the table” and begin the…

Kingston, Jamaica -- Opposition Leader Andrew Holness responding to Energy Minister Phillip Paulwell’s controversial handling of the bidding process for a 381 MW plant, has written to Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller imploring her to…

Nassau, Bahamas -- Preliminary figures have provided evidence of a significant economic slowdown in The Bahamas last year, showing that real growth in gross domestic product (GDP) missed earlier projections and fell to just under 0.7…

Montego Bay, Jamaica -- Nathan Robb was returned as president of the influential Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI) following elections at the Chambers Annual General Meeting Wednesday afternoon. Robb survived a challenge…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (HCNN) -- Argentine authorities have arrested and detained Markington Philippe, a suspect in the killing, fourteen years ago, of Haiti's most famous journalist and political commentator, Jean Dominique, and of his…

MANCHESTER, Jamaica – An angry crowd is now gathered at the Porus Police Station in Manchester after police held two suspects for questioning following a gruesome triple murder in the parish Tuesday morning. An inspector at the station…

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller during her presentation to the 2014 Budget Debate on Tuesday said her Government remains committed to "balancing the books, while balancing people's lives". Simpson Miller also…

St John’s, Antigua -- In separate rulings handed down on Monday, the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal dismissed a challenge by the opposition Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party (ABLP) to the process of re-registration of voters in Antigua…

Kingston, Jamaica -- An attorney-at-law and three other individuals who were jointly charged with several offences under the Proceeds of Crime Act on Friday, December 20, 2013 are scheduled to reappear in the Corporate Area Criminal Court…

Port of Spain, Trinidad (CMC) -- Trinidad and Tobago Tuesday begins the five-day process of saying a final farewell to its third president and prime minister, Arthur NR Robinson, who died on April 9 at the age of 87. President Anthony…

Kingston, Jamaica -- The Police have increased their presence in the turbulent West Kingston community but residents say they are not convinced that enough is being done by the authorities to maintain law and order in the area. The…