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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…

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…