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(CMC) The coalition People’s Partnership government Tuesday announced an all out attack on criminal elements in Trinidad and Tobago as the island recorded its 19th murder in just seven days. Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar, speaking…

KINGSTON, Jamaica - The Turks and Caicos SUN on Tuesday reported that former premier Michael Misick was denied bail by the Magistrate’s Court in Grand Turk. The newspaper reported that an appeal is to be lodged by his lawyers in the…

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — Minister of National Diversity and Social Integration, Rodger Samuel Monday called for the resumption of hangings as Trinidad and Tobago recorded its 14th murder so far this year. Last year, more than 400…

ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC) — Antigua and Barbuda will host the fourth Travelling Caribbean Film Showcase featuring 22 films from 16 Caribbean countries. The January 10 to12 film festival is sponsored by the Cuban Institute of Film Art and…

ST MARY, Jamaica — Ninth-grade Marymount High School student Abigail Hyman fainted at her school in Highgate, St Mary, Monday and was taken to health centre where she reportedly died of a heart attack. In a release a short while ago, the…

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) – A 27-year-old detective was shot and killed by a suspected bandit who escaped police custody at the Georgetown Public Hospital on Monday night. A police statement said that Corporal Seburn Elias was shot in the…

Jamaica-- The behaviour of an alleged rogue juror yesterday threatened to affected the murder trial of entertainer Vybz Kartel and five other accused in the Home Circuit Court. The juror, it was alleged, went to the offices of a defence…

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – The threat of renewed strike action today over unpaid wages by workers at the Central Board of Health (CBH) remained, up to press time, with workers telling OBSERVER media a decision would be taken this morning. Chief…

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – A sister is seeking answers from local authorities and their counterparts in St Maarten about the reported drowning of her brother, Vincent George, a fisherman for more than 20 years, who is said to have met his death…

NASSAU, Bahamas (CMC) – Organisers of the inaugural International Association of Athletic Federations (IAAF) World Relay Championships are trying to keep within the US$5 million budget which is set for the event. However, preliminary…

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica (JIS) -- Female wards of the state, 16 to 18 years old who are preparing to exit state care, now have a transition facility that they can call home in Montego Bay, St James. ‘My Father’s House’, a facility made…

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – The Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers’ Association (TTMA) has called on all stakeholders including non-government organisations to join in finding a solution to the high level of murders in the country,…

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – Britain is providing £200,000 (One British pound =US$1.64 cents) for vital emergency humanitarian support to St Vincent and the Grenadines and St Lucia following the widespread destruction and deaths caused by a…

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Jamaican Vanessa Forrest, a sophomore at Coral Reef Senior High of Miami has been nominated to attend the Congress of Future Medical Leaders in Washington, DC, USA from February 14 to 16, 2014. The Congress is said to…

ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica – Four people were taken into custody on ganja and lottery scam charges after lawmen conducted several raids in St Elizabeth on Thursday. Reports are that about 4:30 am the team of officers searched premises in New…