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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados government has extended by 18 days, the deadline for laying off public servants following talks with labour unions on Monday. Prime Minister Freundel Stuart said the delay would allow the Ministry…

St George’s, Grenada (CMC) – Grenadian authorities were clamping down on the sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages at school functions amid reports that students were concealing them in bottles which carry other labels. In addition,…

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — For decades, the baying of hounds and a cacophony of shotgun blasts echoed across the hinterlands of northern Trinidad, where hunters chased deer, armadillo and agouti, a cat-sized rodent. But since October,…

Kingston, Jamaica -- The Lottery Scam Taskforce on Monday secured its first conviction in the Circuit Court after 21-year-old Marlon Davis of Grange Pen, Lilliput in St James, who was arrested for breaches of the Law Reform (Fraudulent…

Roseau, Dominica (CMC) -- Police were on Tuesday searching for the killers of two men, who were murdered on Monday, the first killings the island reported for the new year. Police public relations officer, Inspector John Carbon, said that…

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Secretary general of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Irwin LaRocque, has reiterated the Community’s call on the Dominican Republic to take steps to “right the wrong” resulting from a ruling on nationality made by…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (HCNN) -- Haiti's Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe said at the weekend that, under the leadership of President Michel Martelly, his government has made tangible progress in the areas of reconstruction, agriculture,…

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Owners of several funeral homes downtown Kingston are fearing the worst after their colleague Jennifer Hardy Edwards went missing on Monday. Parlour owners gathered outside a funeral home Friday awaiting the outcome of…

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Usain Bolt and Shelley-Ann Fraser-Pryce were awarded the RJR Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year titles Friday night at the 53rd staging of the event held at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel in Kingston. Bolt: World record…

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — A small plane has crashed in the South American country of Guyana, injuring three people. Civil aviation chief Zulfikar Mohamed says the Cessna 206 crashed Saturday while taking off from a small airport near the…

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC)- - Former West Indies Cricket captain Brian Lara is to compete for a place on Trinidad and Tobago’s national team for the upcoming Caribbean Amateur Golf Championship (CAGC) in Puerto Rico. Lara is down to…

ST THOMAS, Jamaica — An elderly woman died after fire of unknown origin destroyed her house on Dominique Drive, Retreat in St Thomas Thursday morning. She has been identified as 76-year-old Nydia Johnson, otherwise known as ‘Millicent’.…

ST ANDREW, Jamaica — The police a short while ago issued an advisory urging members of the public to use alternative routes of Old Hope Road or Gordon Boulevard in Kingston 6 as a section of Mona Road is now impassable. Earlier today a gas…

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC) – The cash-strapped regional airline, LIAT, said Friday it would hold talks with the Eastern Caribbean Civil Aviation Authority (ECCAA) after it had been slapped with a notice of penalty in connection with an…

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Opposition spokesman on Agriculture and Fisheries, J C Hutchinson, says that the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) must play an important role in the development of the Agro Parks, if the programme is to…