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Barbados has the most powerful passport in the Caribbean and the 50th most powerful in the world, according to the results of a 2017 world travel ranking. The latest ranking, released by Passportindex.org, takes into account the number…

Trinidad and Tobago beverage manufacturer SMJ, the largest manufacturer of non-alcoholic drinks in the English speaking Caribbean, is making it easier for consumers to get one of the company’s flagship products. The popular kid-friendly…

Trinidad and Tobago has unveiled tough new strategies to arrest spiraling crime, but they will not involve the resignation of Acting Commissioner of Police Stephen Williams. The crime chief served notice he won’t be going anywhere…

A Jamaican woman who had what was supposed to be a box of beef patties was found to be carrying something more sinister than the savoury snack when she arrived at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport earlier this week.…

Jamaica’s recent decriminalization of possession of up to two ounces of ganja is contributing to a dangerous practice that officials warn needs urgent attention. Disturbing findings in the 2016 National Drug Prevalence Survey show that…

Puerto Rico's longest-held political prisoner Oscar López Rivera's sentence has been commuted by US President Barack Obama. The news first broke on social media on Tuesday afternoon, although the pro-independence weekly Claridad had…

Damning allegations that a Grenadian family visiting Barbados was manhandled and humiliated by Barbadian police are hurting Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell. A disappointed Mitchell is, however, in no mood for a row with his Caribbean…

A British businessman who was investing in several projects in Antigua and Barbuda has been arrested in London in connection with tax fraud in Germany. Peter Singh Virdee was arrested at Heathrow Airport last week on a European arrest…

Last Thursday’s announcement by US President Barack Obama that he is ending the longstanding "wet foot, dry foot" immigration policy that allows any Cuban who makes it to US soil to stay and become a legal resident also included a…

Online transportation network company Uber is now in Trinidad and Tobago. But the government of the twin-island republic is looking into whether it can legally operate there. The Uber app was activated in Port of Spain and San Fernando…

Jerry A-Kum, director of Suriname Tourism Foundation (STF), full of energy and grand plans to develop Suriname’s tourism industry, shared in his office some achievements, and current and future plans that his organisation has to improve the…

Between 1996 and 2016, the registrar general in Trinidad and Tobago recorded 3,478 child marriages, with almost 98 percent being females. Further, marriage certificates showed that some of them were girls as young as 11 and 12 who were…

Sharp knives, cutlasses, scissors, screwdrivers and small bags of marijuana and crack cocaine are not unusual seizures for law enforcers in St Lucia. The problem is, these drugs and weapons are increasingly being confiscated from the bags…

Guyanese medical experts are visiting three communities in one of the country’s 10 regions to get to the bottom of a gastroenteritis outbreak. Since December last year, residents in Region 9 have been reporting an increase in the…

In an about turn, Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister Gaston Browne is standing behind the island’s embattled ambassador to the United Arab Emirates Casroy James, who has been linked to the Brazilian company Odebrecht embroiled in an…