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ST JAMES, Jamaica -- Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Roger Clarke has disclosed that a unit to tackle praedial larceny will be established by the Jamaica Constabulary Force soon. Clarke said more details of the proposed unit will be…

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -- On Sunday, finance and economy minister, Larry Howai, confirmed that Moody's Investors Services has reaffirmed Trinidad and Tobago’s Baa1 (medium grade/moderate credit risk) sovereign credit rating based on…

(CMC)-- A young man carries this injured woman from the minibus shortly after it crashed in St Mary yesterday afternoon. Beach outing ends in highway crash, many injured A beach outing turned into tragedy yesterday when a minibus crashed…

NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — Authorities in the Bahamas have detained 132 Haitian migrants in a boat that broke down off a remote, sparsely populated island. Police Superintendent Stephen Dean says 107 males and 25 females were intercepted off…

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – A 65-year-old woman collapsed and died soon after she had been told that her 17-year-old great-nephew had been shot and killed in the volatile Laventille area, east of here. Relatives said that Marjorie…

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- The government expects to find a “suitable private partner” this fiscal year, to share the cost of the necessary improvements to Jamaica’s port infrastructure, to meet the completion of the expansion of the Panama Canal…

CASTRIES, St Lucia (GIS) -- Officials representing Petroleum of Venezuela (PDVSA) have provided positive feedback on a recent visit to Saint Lucia, in preparation for the initial stages of shipping fuel under the island’s PetroCaribe…

NEW YORK (CMC) – The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency says it arrested a Trinidad and Tobago national on drug related charges soon after his arrival early April at the John F. Kennedy International Airport. The…

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) says it has recorded a sharp decrease in security force-related fatalities for the first quarter of 2014. At the end of the first quarter, the Commission said it…

Roseau, Dominica -- The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Export Development Unit (EDU) is working along with entrepreneurs in the region on the next steps after undertaking a successful inaugural fact finding business mission…

St George’s, Grenada (GIS) -- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) wants to meet early next month to approve Grenada’s home grown structural adjustment program. The IMF official who will be chairing the meeting has asked Grenada’s…

Kingston, Jamaica -- The newly tabled Flexible Working Arrangements (FWAs) bill is expected to be one of the main topics for discussion when the Labour Advisory Committee (LAC) meets this morning at the Ministry of Labour and Social…

Kingstown, St Vincent (CMC) -- Police are probing the second murder within a 48 hour period after the bullet riddled body of a 25-year-old man was found along the bank of a stream on Monday. Police said that the body of Roger Bramble was…

Port of Spain, Trinidad (CMC) -- The murder toll in Trinidad and Tobago has climbed to 128 so far this year, as police investigate the murders of a young couple at a fruit stall in Valencia. Police said that Tristan Proudfoot and his wife,…

(CMC) -- Half-an-hour before she could celebrate her 28th birthday, Latoya Campbell Thompson was shot dead by her 31-year-old husband, Constable Davian Thompson, Saturday night. The shocking murder, committed at the couple's home in the…