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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…

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro has asked the country’s chief prosecutor to investigate all Venezuelans whose names appear in the so-called “Panama Papers” – over 11 million leaked documents that originated with a Panama-based law firm…

A continuance has been granted in the ongoing bribery case against the former permanent representative of Antigua and Barbuda to the United Nations, John Ashe. A previously scheduled pretrial conference for April 8 was adjourned to May 5 at…

The Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO), a government agency tasked with promoting foreign inward investment to Jamaica, may have implicated the Jamaican diplomatic corps in Washington, DC, in what appears to be a blatant attempt to…

The Western Hemisphere's only two members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Guyana and Suriname, will participate in next week's 13th Summit of the OIC from April 10-15 in Istanbul, Turkey. READ MORE AT:…

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has expressed concern that the “tax havens” label is again being attached to the financial services centres in member states, following the leak of the so-called Panama Papers. In a statement issued…

In the wake of the “Panama Papers” disclosure and global attention on international financial centres (IFCs), Jude Scott, CEO of Cayman Finance, the private sector organisation that represents the Cayman Islands’ financial services…

With today's political climate in the Middle East and around the world, many wealthy Egyptians are now turning to a second passport and European residency to secure their families' futures. In fact, for the Antigua and Barbuda citizenship…

Trinidad and Tobago’s Foreign Affairs Minister Dennis Moses says 12 Jamaicans were denied into the twin-island republic last month because they were deemed “likely to become charges on public funds”. The group of Jamaicans had accused…

Costas Takkas, the former secretary-general of the Cayman Islands Football Association (CIFA) and one time attaché to Jeffrey Webb when he was president of CONCACAF, has been extradited to the US ten months after he was arrested in Zürich…

Retired insurance executive Basil Christie said he contemplated jumping off the Paradise Island bridge when he learned that CLICO, the insurance company in which he invested $440,000, had gone into liquidation. On Thursday, Christie was…

The ongoing controversy over Puerto Rico’s insolvency and efforts to enlist congressional support for legal bankruptcy protection for the US territory have resulted in fingers being pointed at the local Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)…