February 28, 2014
Holiday May Take Heat Out of Venezuela Crisis
Venezuelans began a week-long national holiday on Thursday as some protests still simmer, but President Nicolas Maduro's government is hoping the break will take the heat out of the nation's worst unrest in a decade. The 51-year-old successor to…
February 28, 2014
Top Castro Aide Turned Dissident Huber Matos Dies at 95
Huber Matos, a top Cuban revolutionary who was sent to prison for 20 years for turning against Fidel Castro, died Thursday in Miami. His family says Matos suffered a heart attack. He was 95. Matos was a teacher and farmer when he joined the…
February 28, 2014
Mexican President ‘Indignant’ at US Deportations
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said he is “indignant” at the United States' deportation of Mexican migrants and described U.S. lawmakers as demonstrating a “lack of conscience” in failing to pass immigration reform. In a television interview…
February 28, 2014
No endemic transmission of measles in the Caribbean since 2002 – PAHO
The Pan-American Health Organization ((PAHO) says there has been no endemic transmission of measles in the Americas, including the Caribbean, since 2002. PAHO said since Venezuela reported the last case in 2001, measles deaths have “disappeared from…
February 25, 2014
Violent clashes at Venezuela march
Venezuelan police and opposition demonstrators have clashed at the end of a march that gathered tens of thousands of people in Caracas. Several people were injured, as police fired tear gas and activists hurled stones in the Altamira district.…
February 25, 2014
New OECS director general appointed
The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) has announced the appointment of St Lucian Dr Didacus Jules as the organisation’s new director general. Jules, the Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the Barbados Caribbean Examinations…
February 25, 2014
Jamaicans in US support ganja decriminalisation but urge caution
The push by the Jamaican ganja lobby for authorities to decriminalise the use of the weed has won broad-based support within the Jamaican diaspora here. However, there is also deep concern that the move should not impact negatively on relations…
February 25, 2014
Paulwell says Jamaica must not be left behind as world takes on Marijuana
Jamaica will this year join a virtual tidal wave of countries across the globe in decriminalising ganja, forerunner to the establishment of a medicinal marijuana industry estimated to be worth billions of dollars. The undertaking was given to the…
February 21, 2014
UN’s Ban Wants 3,000 Troops Quickly Sent to Central African Republic
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is asking the Security Council to quickly send at least 3,000 more troops to the Central African Republic, where religious violence is spinning out of control. Mr. Ban Thursday urged that the additional…
February 21, 2014
CARICOM expresses concern over Venezuela protests
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM), has expressed concern about the confrontations that have taken place in Venezuela over the past few days in the course of demonstrations. In a statement deploring the deaths of at least four people arising from the…