October 22, 2012
VAT on all food items will be removed by Nov 15th 2012
Trinidad and Tobago's Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has announced that Value Added Tax (VAT) on all food items will be removed, effective November 15, as part of measures tabled in tomorrow’s 2012/2013 Budget presentation.Addressing a…
October 22, 2012
New OT minister heads to BVI on first OT visit
Mark Simmonds, the FCO’s new overseas territories minister, is heading to the Caribbean this week but he will not be coming to the Cayman Islands. The FCO said he would be visiting the British Virgin Islands on his first trip to a Caribbean…
October 22, 2012
The Clintons head to Haiti
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will travel to northern Haiti on Monday, where she and husband, former President Bill Clinton, will inaugurate a new $300 million industrial park.They will be joined by Haitian President Michel Martelly and…
October 22, 2012
Three women killed, four hospitalized-shooter commits suicide
A new photo has emerged showing the gunman behind massacre at a suburban Milwaukee spa on Sunday posing for the camera with an assault rifle.Radcliffe Haughton, 45, believed to be a Jamaican national would have had to give up the weapon and all of…
October 22, 2012
Jamaican woman stabbed to death before wedding & giving birth
The man who was suppose to wed Vindalee Smith has been questioned by police, but not named a suspect in here killing. Smith 38 was stabbed and killed yesterday, her body found at her apartment - she was 8 months pregnant. Police say they found no…
October 16, 2012
Patterson to be honoured by Parliament Oct 30
FORMER Prime Minister PJ Patterson is to be honoured by Parliament at another special joint sitting of both Houses, scheduled for Gordon House on Tuesday, October 30. Patterson was elected as Jamaica's sixth prime minister in 1992, succeeding…
October 16, 2012
Tropical Storm Rafael unleashes winds and rain on Virgin Islands, heads toward Bermuda
Tropical Storm Rafael unleashed heavy rain and powerful gusts on the Virgin Islands early Sunday and could turn into a hurricane by Monday, forecasters said.With sustained winds of 50 mph, Rafael could get even stronger as it bears down on several…
October 16, 2012
Cuba to end exit permits for foreign travel
Cuba has announced it is removing the need for its citizens to obtain exit permits before travelling abroad. State media said the move, to come into effect on 14 January next year, would "update" migration laws to reflect current and future…
October 16, 2012
Clico lawyers fired and replaced
One year and three months into the Commission of Enquiry into collapsed insurance giant CLICO, the Minister of Finance has fired the team of lawyers who were representing the ministry, sources confirmed yesterday.According to a report in the Sunday…
October 16, 2012
Controversy over Wyclef’s charity money for Haiti
Wyclef Jean is facing an investigation into what happened to money he raised for victims of the Haiti earthquake. The former Fugees star started a campaign after 230,000 people died in the disaster in 2010. Two years later though there's…