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Bahamas Prime Minister denies promising 500 citizenships to Chinese investors
Prime Minister Perry Christie has dismissed as an “absolute lie”, the claim that his government has agreed to sell or grant 500 Bahamian citizenships to Chinese investors connected with the US$3.5 billion Baha Mar project.
“Bahamian…
Jamaica tourism authorities targeting African American market
Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett says the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) will be using social media and other promotional means to go after the 35 million strong African American market.
Bartlett said that in addition to booking…
CARICOM deficiencies leading to fragmentation and weakness | Sir Ronald Sanders
The countries of CARICOM started the process to their separate independence 54 years ago when Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago became nominally sovereign states in 1962. Yet, while rightly they have shed colonial rule and assumed control of…
Opposition criticizes new Nomination Day ahead of elections in St. Lucia
The date for the nomination of candidates ahead of the June 6 general election in St. Lucia has been changed.
But no official reason has been given for the decision to hold Nomination Day on May 28, one day later than was announced by…
Venezuela to buy food from Trinidad; Trinidad to buy Venezuela oil
Venezuela will buy US$50 million in goods from Trinidad and Tobago to help ease the food shortages facing the South American nation. And the twin-island republic has agreed to purchase natural gas from Venezuela.
Those were among the…
Delta to operate daily service to St. Croix over Christmas Holidays
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…
Use of medical marijuana reignites debate in Barbados
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…
Double murder rocks Linstead
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.
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Trinidad and Tobago reconsiders existing law after push to recognise child marriage as abuse
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,…
OAS chief calls Venezuela president a petty dictator, traitor and liar
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…
Visiting academic jailed in the Cayman Islands over room dispute
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…
Gov’t employees evacuated in Dominica after ‘wired up’ device found
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…
Opposition calls on Venezuela to defy state of emergency decree
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…
UN ‘deeply disappointed’ over missed election deadlines in Haiti
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…
Cuba and US to meet again to assess progress in normalization of ties
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…