March 19, 2012
Territorial Elections now in Process — Election Watch 2012.
Electors on French St. Martin are currently casting their ballots at the various polling stations throughout the French side of the island. Early predictions show that there will be a higher voter's turn this year. However, voters are getting…
March 19, 2012
Toussaint Louverture Airport Still Under Construction
Rehabilitation work continues at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport. If an initial starting room was made available to passengers, most of the work is still yet to be done. We still need at least a month to put the airport in step…
March 19, 2012
Haitian-Americans Concerned about Political Instability in Haiti
Like Haitians in Haiti, compatriots in the diaspora are also awaiting a durable solution to the crisis that gnaws Haitian policy and society. Situations in the Haitian media are relayed, discussed in the salons, streets and in public places in…
March 19, 2012
$9 million euros for agriculture
The Caribbean Agriculture Research and Development Institute (Cardi) has agreed with the Caricom Secretariat and the Inter-American Institute for Agriculture to equitably manage the Intra-ACP project of $9 million euros for agricultural…
March 16, 2012
US diplomat warns…Stanford’s fraud case has message for Caribbean
The recently concluded fraud case in which Texan billionaire Allen Stanford was convicted of running a US$7-billion Ponzi scheme using a bank in Antigua and Barbuda should serve as a warning to small societies in the Caribbean, a senior US…
March 16, 2012
US Envoy to Haiti Urges Patience on Disaster Recovery
The U.S. ambassador to Haiti says it will take years to complete reconstruction efforts from the devastating 2010 earthquake. In an interview with VOA's Creole Service, Kenneth Merten compared the pace of reconstruction efforts in Port-au-Prince to…
March 13, 2012
Haiti: UN peacekeepers sentenced for raping teenage boy
A Pakistani military tribunal has convicted two United Nations peacekeepers for raping a 14-year-old Haitian boy. UN spokeswoman Sylvie Van Den Wildenberg said judges from a Pakistani military tribunal came to Haiti to hold the trial that…
March 13, 2012
Cuba cardinal to give TV address about papal visit
The Roman Catholic Church says Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega will give a televised speech about Pope Benedict XVI's upcoming visit. Church spokesman Orlando Marquez says Ortega's speech is to air Tuesday evening on state-run channel Cubavision. A…
March 13, 2012
Former Guatemalan soldier gets 6060-year sentence in massacre
A former member of an elite Guatemalan military force extradited from the United States last July was sentenced to 6,060 years in prison Monday for his role in the killings of 201 people in a 1982 massacre. Pedro Pimentel Rios was the fifth…
March 13, 2012
Crime and security get the attention of CARICOM heads
Caribbean leaders have discussed current trends in criminal activity, including the international dimension and new and emerging threats to security in the region and agreed that the security of the region continued to be of high priority,…