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(Jamaica Observer) Jamaica – The Malvern police are reporting that they seized a homemade firearm in Retirement district, Malvern, St Elizabeth today. Reports are that about 8:00 am, a team of officers conducted an operation when an…

Residents of Martinique, St. Lucia and Dominica have reported feeling a 5.5 magnitude which occurred in the early hours of this morning. According to the University of the West Indies’ Seismic Research Centre (SRC), the quake occurred at a…

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaica Broilers Group recorded revenues of $9.17 billion for the quarter ending October 31, a six per cent increase on the $8.68 billion for the corresponding period last year. At the same time, the vertically…

(Barbados Today) A St Lucy man has been remanded to jail after appearing in the Holetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday on a murder charge. Alliston Greaves, 46, is charged with last Wednesday’s stabbing death of Cally-Ann Gill. Gill, 35,…

(Antigua Observer) Police are carrying out investigations into an alleged robbery and shooting of a female Chinese national at Fond Cole on December 23, 2015. According to reports from Police Public Relations Officer (PRO), Sergeant Pellam…

(Antigua Observer) A jealous young man took his life on Boxing Day, hours after terrorizing his teenage girlfriend and escaping from the Grove Police Station. Lorenzo James, 21, who resided at Duncan Street and at Lot 218, Grove, East Bank…

(Antigua Observer) Residents may have to consider adding stricter budgeting to their list of New Year’s resolutions after government hinted that residents may have to contribute more to both the Social Security and Medical Benefits (MBS)…

Martinique has become the latest Caribbean island to report the Zika Virus (ZIKV), according to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). In its latest epidemiological report, for the week of December 20 to 26, PAHO added Martinique as…

The Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) in Haiti has announced that the elections of local authorities and the partial parliamentary and presidential runoff ballot that were scheduled for December 27, 2015, have been postponed until…

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed concern over growing political uncertainty in Haiti and urged the two candidates in the presidential run-off there to help the electoral process move forward while preserving the…

(Antigua Observer) Leader of the main opposition New Democratic Party (NDP) Arnhim Eustace says lawyers will return to the courts next Monday as they seek access to certain electoral documents, ahead of election petitions to be filed by the…

(Antigua Observer) The Trinidad and Tobago government Thursday refused to confirm or deny media reports that Central Bank Governor Jalawa Rambarran has been dismissed from his post. “I have been saying for the last few weeks that the only…

(Antigua Observer) The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency says cocaine found in fried fish on a flight from Jamaica was among its top seizures in 2015. In a report on Wednesday, CBP said on June 15, its Office of…

Despite clear evidence of the pent-up desire in the North American market – the largest source market for tourists to The Bahamas – for access to a slowly opening Cuba, tourism officials in The Bahamas seem to be taking the news of restored…

(Antigua Observer) The Dominica government says it will in the new year continue to focus on rebuilding the island following the passage of Tropical Storm Erika that killed more than 30 people and left EC$1.298 billion (One EC dollar…