June 3, 2013
CARICOM SG welcomes ruling on CCJ in St Lucia
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General Irwin LaRocque has welcomed the ruling by the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court of Appeal that St Lucia does not require to stage a referendum before it joins the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of…
June 3, 2013
Cuba’s inclusion on U.S. terrorist list viewed as “shameful”
In what has become an annual ritual, the United States on Thursday kept Cuba on its list of "state sponsors of terrorism" and Havana reacted angrily, calling it a "shameful decision" based in politics, not reality. Cuba said in a statement that the…
June 3, 2013
UK considers talks with Ecuador minister
The UK government is considering a request from Ecuador to hold talks on the future of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, the Foreign Office has said. It confirmed Ecuador's foreign minister Ricardo Patino, who will visit Mr Assange this month, had…
June 3, 2013
CAL issues ‘of great concern’
Jamaica’s Prime Minister, Portia Simpson-Miller, has said the relationship between Caribbean Airlines Ltd (CAL) and the carrier it acquired in 2011, Air Jamaica, is a “great cause of concern for the Jamaican people”.Simpson-Miller made the comment…
June 3, 2013
Rowley – Protocol breaches embarrassed us
The Office of the Leader of the Opposition Dr Keith Rowley today issues a statement, claiming that Government had committed a series of embarrassing protocol breaches during the State visit of the President of China Xi Jinping.President Jinping…
June 3, 2013
Media barred from luncheon with Chinese president
Prime Minister Kamla Persad- Bissessar yesterday apologised to members of the local media after reports that they were debarred by officials from the Chinese delegation. She spoke to the media at the Hilton Trinidad and Conference Centre, St Ann’s…
May 29, 2013
Fire Aboard Royal Caribbean Cruise Ship
More than 2,200 passengers were to be flown from The Bahamas back to Baltimore after a fire broke out aboard a Royal Caribbean ship on Monday. The fire did enough damage that the rest of the cruise was cancelled the company said. The fire that began…
May 29, 2013
Cayman Islands gets new premier
The Governor of Cayman Islands has officially appointed People’s Progressive Movement (PPM) leader Alden McLaughlin as the territory’s new premier. Following last Wednesday’s general elections, which gave the opposition PPM nine out of the 18…
May 29, 2013
CARICOM and US sign trade and investment framework agreement
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the United States signed a trade and investment framework agreement (TIFA) on Tuesday in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. CARICOM chairman, Michel Martelly, the president of Haiti, and Joseph Biden, the vice…
May 29, 2013
Crime down 11 percent in Bahamas, says police chief
Crime in The Bahamas decreased by 11 percent between January 1 and May 27, 2013, compared to the same period in 2012, according to statistics released by Police Commissioner Ellison Greenslade on Monday.There were 4,763 crimes reported during this…