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Delta Air Lines will inaugurate a daily service from Atlanta to St. Croix for three weeks over the peak Christmas holiday season, reports the United States Virgin Islands Department of Tourism. Commissioner of Tourism Beverly…

Debate has reignited over the highly emotive issue of Barbados’ stance on marijuana use, including for medical purposes. It comes as an attorney-at- law awaits word from the Minister of Health on an application for his sick wife to use the…

ST CATHERINE, Jamaica – The Linstead police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the shooting death of two people in Rose Hall, Linstead, St Catherine, on Friday. READ MORE:…

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -- Trinidad and Tobago is a society of contradictions: just about a year ago, the legal age of sexual consent was raised from 16 to 18, even as an archaic law -- the Marriage Act of 1923 -- remained on the books,…

In an unusual display of diplomatic cojones, Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary General Luis Almagro referred to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro as a petty dictator, a traitor and a liar in an open letter devoid of any…

The Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS) has defended a decision to put a leading international academic, who was visiting Cayman with her son for the recent invitational football tournament, in jail following an accommodation…

Workers at the government headquarters were forced to evacuate the building after police said they had found a suspicious object near the gate. Media reports said that the object “appeared wired up” and that members of the Special Services…

Venezuela's opposition leader urged his country on Tuesday to defy a state of emergency decreed by the government as it grapples with an acute political and economic crisis. Henrique Capriles spoke as the opposition-controlled congress…

The United Nations Security Council has expressed its deep disappointment that Haitian officials have failed to meet the election and inauguration deadlines agreed upon in the February political accord, calling on all concerned to ensure…

HAVANA, Cuba (ACN) -- Representatives of Cuba and the United States will meet in Havana on Monday to take stock of progress in the process towards normalization of ties, Gustavo Machin, deputy director general of the Cuban Foreign…

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Friday May 13, 2016 – Early childhood education teachers are to benefit from a further 15 percent increase in salary this year. State Minister of Education, Youth and Information Floyd Green, who made the announcement on…

In a statement on Thursday, the Venezuelan embassy in St Vincent and the Grenadines denounced as a forgery a payment order purporting to show that $272,325 had been transferred on March 11, 2014, to Euro Pacific Bank Limited in Kingstown,…

The Cayman Islands premier has called on the world’s nations attending the anti-corruption summit in London to stop the hypocrisy regarding the fight against financial crime and make standards truly global. Alden McLaughlin did not name…

A federal indictment was unsealed on Wednesday in the District of Puerto Rico charging 50 members of La Asociación ÑETA with racketeering, drug trafficking and murder. The defendants include the leadership of the enterprise, its drug…

A Spanish media report that the Venezuela government has been secretly sending money to fund a left wing political party in Spain through an offshore bank based in St Vincent and the Grenadines has been denied by the bank in question but…