January 8, 2014
Panama Canal Authority proposes end to dispute
The Panama Canal Authority said Tuesday that it wants to end a stand-off over the expansion of the canal by splitting construction costs with the international consortium that was threatening to halt work unless the authority came up with US$1.6…
January 4, 2014
Cubans can now buy new and used cars freely
Cubans are now able to buy modern cars freely for the first time since the revolution in 1959. Previously, Cubans had to get a government permit to buy new vehicles. That requirement has now been abolished but only a minority will benefit. The…
January 4, 2014
US visitor – first road fatality in Trinidad
Twenty year old Leon Jagroop has become Trinidad's first road fatality in Trinidad for 2014. The United States resident died while being treated hospital, after the car he was driving overturned on the north bound lane of the Solomon Hochoy Highway…
January 4, 2014
St Lucia’s records its first murder for 2014
A police officer came under fire from gunmen as St Lucia recorded its first homicide for the new year. A police statement confirmed that a 27-year-old man was shot and killed in New Village in the capital last night, adding that “subsequent to that…
January 4, 2014
U.S. deports 3,414 Dominicans in 2013, beats the 3,245 in 2012
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported 3,414 Dominicans in 2013 –including 62 women- after serving sentences in U.S. jails accused of various crimes, compared with the 3,245 escorted back in 2012. The ex-convicts served…
January 4, 2014
Britain to provide aid to St Lucia and St Vincent
Britain is providing EC$1 million for vital emergency humanitarian support to St Vincent and the Grenadines and St Lucia following the widespread destruction and deaths caused by a low level trough system late last month. Britain said it would…
January 3, 2014
Route Canapé Vert renamed Nelson Mandela Avenue
Route du Canapé Vert will now be called Nelson Mandela Avenue an executive order dated December 13, 2013 announced. It should be noted that the road was given the name of Haitian hero, Jean Price-Mars, a leader of Haiti's Negritude movement, when it…
January 3, 2014
CARICOM leaders clueless on Dominican reality: Roundtable president
The head of the Roundtable of Commonwealth Countries in the Dominican Republic, Fernando Gonzalez Nicolas affirms that CARICOM leaders don't understand Dominican reality to question its Constitutional Court ruling and propose penalties. He said the…
January 2, 2014
Oil spill spreading north, says Aboud
The Gulf of Paria will become a toxic dead zone if thick crude is not vacuumed from the ocean floor before Petrotrin begins its underwater seismic surveys, president of Fishermen and Friends of the Sea Gary Aboud warned yesterday. Aboud made the…
January 2, 2014
‘2013 was not good year for Caribbean’ according to IDB
The Inter American Development Bank (IDB) says 2013 has been marked by an external context that did not encourage a strong economic performance in Latin America and the Caribbean. The IDB said that the high degree of volatility that rattled…