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On Friday, Cuba and Kuwait signed in Havana the first agreement for long-term loan in the energy sector, which will allow the Caribbean nation to finance the construction project of 34 small hydroelectric plants. The signing of documents…

LIAT has been a vital factor in the commercial and tourism life blood of the Caribbean for decades. However, the company has now had three CEO’s and two Acting CEO’s in the last seven years, evidence of LIAT’s challenges. Commentary on its…

Authorities in Panama on Friday raided a property used by Mossack Fonseca, the Panama-based law firm at the centre of a massive leak of confidential financial records dubbed the Panama Papers, removing bags full of shredded documents as…

The main Opposition United Workers Party (UWP) says it plans to make St Lucia a republic if it wins the next general election and replace Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as the island’s head of state. Addressing party supporters on Sunday,…

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Office of Field Operations (OFO), at Philadelphia International Airport seized $48,935 on Tuesday from a Massachusetts man for violating federal currency reporting regulations. Read more at:…

On April 19 and 20, the US Coast Guard held the fourth annual multilateral maritime interdiction and prosecution summit in Barbados. The summit, which gathered representatives from law enforcement agencies throughout the region, the…

During a two-day visit to Washington, DC, Jovenel Moise, the winner of the October 25, 2015, first round of presidential elections in Haiti, called on US policymakers and opinion makers to hold accountable acting President Jocelerme Privert…

The seventh summit of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) will take place on June 4 in the Cuban capital of Havana, said the organization’s secretary general Alfonso Munera. Munera, who paid a working visit to Cuba last Wednesday,…

House Republicans on Friday were reworking proposed legislation to address Puerto Rico’s debt crisis but, according to House Natural Resources Committee chairman Rob Bishop, “The bill is not going to change substantially.” Senator Bernie…

A group of pastors have come together to campaign against a constitutional amendment that it says will pave the way for same-sex marriage in the Bahamas. But government’s Yes Bahamas campaign says there is no basis for the concern, and…

Commissioner of Police Dr Carl Williams has refuted the claim, which he believes is widely held, that Jamaicans are killed at random. Speaking to editors and reporters at the Jamaica Observer on Tuesday, Dr Williams said people who are…

The crews of the Coast Guard Cutter Richard Dixon and the USS Shamal successfully interdicted more than 1,110 kilograms of cocaine and detained four suspected smugglers in international waters in the Caribbean Sea on April 7. The suspected…

A man who called in false bomb threats at St. Maarten’s Princess Juliana International Airport last November will spend the next year behind bars in the Caribbean island. Trinidadian-born Bryan Andrew Rymer, 42, was sentenced after being…

Premier and Minister of Finance Dr Orlando Smith has welcomed the statement made by British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday in the House of Commons in which he commended the British Virgin Islands and other Overseas Territories and…

In a virtual rerun of a threatened lawsuit against a local broadcaster in Saint Lucia in 2013, an attorney representing Claudius Francis, the president of the senate, has written to Clinton Reynolds of MBC Television threatening to…