Regional

Tropical Storm Bonnie became the second named tropical system of the 2016 Atlantic Hurricane Season yesterday evening, posing no threat to the Caribbean. But hours later, it weakened to a depression. Read more:…

It’s becoming even more likely that Tropical Storm Bonnie could form in the Atlantic over the weekend. The National Hurricane Centre (NHC) said the area of low pressure northeast of the Bahamas has a 90 per cent chance of developing into a…

Insel Air, the national airline of Curaçao, will begin flying between Guyana and Brazil from July 4. The airline said it will operate three weekly flights between Boa Vista, Brazil, and the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Guyana,…

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…

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…

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…

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 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 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…