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Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the Government will, in the coming months, be looking at all the assets under its portfolio with the intention of divesting them. Read more:…

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says he’s open to having talks with his opponents to resolve the political crisis in his country that has deepened since last week when Opposition Leader Juan Guaido declared himself interim leader.…

Police in Trinidad & Tobago are once again reminding citizens to be careful and observant when making bank transactions. The latest reminder follows the robbery of an 88-year-old man mere moments after he left First Citizens Bank in…

SEVERAL people who were looking for jobs at Christmas were instead scammed of thousands of dollars. In December, several people who are members of a WhatsApp group were falsely told they would be employed as riggers at an energy company…

Black plastic pipes, readily available on the mainly empty shelves of Cuba’s shops, distribute biogas to homes in the rural town of La Macuca, buried under the ground or running through the grass and stones in people’s yards. The strong…

The European Union has disbursed EC$17.55 million (US$6.5 million) to the Government of Montserrat as the first fixed tranche under the Multi Sector Sustainable Economic Development Budget Support Programme. Read more: …

The Ministry of Natural Resources says it is “cautiously optimistic” after the Donald Trump administration said it was ready to remove the sanctions on the Russian-owned and world’s second-largest aluminium company RUSAL, which is the…

The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has approved funding for a project which will see 30,500 existing street lights replaced with energy-efficient light-emitting diode (LED) lighting. The project is expected to reduce the cost of street…

Copa Airlines, which commenced twice weekly service to Guyana in 2015, and expanded that to four flights a week a year ago, on Thursday announced an additional flight to Guyana on Fridays, bringing the total number of flights to five per…

Thirty-eight families from the Petite Savanne community in Dominica on Friday received the keys to brand new homes in the Bellevue Chopin housing development compliments of the government and financed by the island’s citizenship by…

A report on the Fly Jamaica crash landing at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) early last month has been presented to the Guyana Cabinet by Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson. Minister of State Joseph Harmon,…

President David Granger is scheduled to return to Cuba tomorrow for further medical intervention, after being diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma in the Spanish-speaking nation last month. Minister of State Joseph Harmon made the…

Prime Minister Andrew Holness says he will formally launch a commission to study violence in Jamaica early next year, and he’ll be expecting that commission to make recommendations to Government about what can be done to create a more…

Scotiabank is shutting shop in parts of the Caribbean, entering an agreement with a Trinidad-based leading financial group to take over its banking operations in nine “non-core markets” in the region. It was announced today that, subject…

With the final closure of Petrotrin slated for month-end, thousands of pensionable employees still face questions about the security of their retirement funds. The state-owned oil and gas company has over 5,000 employees and reports are…