April 16, 2012
Local contracts surpass $110 million at Bahamas megaresort
Bahamian companies have been awarded more than $110 million in contracts since the multi-billion dollar Baha Mar resort broke ground just over one year ago – and more work is on the way. Local labour will be a "major focus" during the…
April 16, 2012
US Coast Guard makes nearly two-ton Caribbean coke bust
The United States Coast Guard said on Saturday that it captured a speedboat laden with US $43 million worth of cocaine in the Caribbean Sea. The Coast Guard said it seized 3,532 pounds of the drug, along with four suspected drug smugglers. It did…
April 16, 2012
Call for unity at opening of Summit of the Americas
The secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, called for the unity of the countries of the hemisphere at the inauguration of the Sixth Summit of the Americas, saying “a united Americas is an achievable…
April 15, 2012
Obama: ‘Drug legalisation not the answer to drug war’
US President Barack Obama has said that legalising drugs is not the answer to the problems caused by the trafficking of illegal narcotics in the Americas. Mr Obama told a gathering of leading executives in Colombia ahead of the Summit of the…
April 15, 2012
Cardi to revive Haiti’s agricultural sector
The Caribbean Agriculture and Research Development Institute (Cardi), through donor funding from Caricom, Australia, the Common Fund for Commodities and the European Union, has pledged to resuscitate Haiti’s struggling agriculture sector. The…
April 15, 2012
Peru troops free Shining Path hostages
The Peruvian government says a group of gas workers kidnapped by Shining Path rebels on Monday has been freed. Officials said hundreds of troops surrounded the rebels, forcing them into a hasty retreat, during which they left their captives…
April 15, 2012
Venezuela’s Chavez set for more Cuba cancer treatment
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has given a speech from the presidential palace in Caracas, the first since his latest round of treatment in Cuba for a malignant tumour. Mr Chavez, who was more than two hours late, told thousands of supporters…
April 15, 2012
Regional health officials to discuss two studies on HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean
Caribbean health officials meet here next week to examine the findings of two studies to ascertain the quantity and quality of available gender specific HIV services for key populations in the region. The studies were commissioned by the Pan…
April 12, 2012
Bahamas opposition welcomes election announcement
Bahamas opposition Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) leader Perry Christie on Tuesday…
April 12, 2012
Too early to talk about salary increases—PM
“It is too premature to say that all MPs will get a pay hike.” So said Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar as she spoke to reporters after commissioning the start of a $400 million road repair programme, headed by Works and Infrastructure…