January 31, 2012
Haiti judge: Try Duvalier on corruption charges
A Haitian judge said yesterday that former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier should face trial for corruption, but not the more serious charges of human rights violations committed during his rule. Investigative Magistrate Carves said the statute of…
January 29, 2012
CARPHA to collaborate with CTO on Quality Tourism
The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) which started its operations this month under Interim Director, Dr. Jerome Walcott, former Minister of Health, Barbados was a subject of discussion at the Council of the Caribbean Tourism Organization,…
January 29, 2012
New bill tackles child porn, genital mutilation
THE newest version of the Children's Bill to be debated in Parliament is a consolidation of much-needed legislation and could make a difference in children's rights locally, head of the Coalition Against Domestic Violence and child rights…
January 29, 2012
Pilot pays up
LIAT pilot and admitted drug trafficker Keith Richard Otway Allen escaped a long prison term and should be back home in St Vincent and the Grenadines today after paying fines totalling $1/4 million yesterday. The fines were about twice the value…
January 29, 2012
Antigua-Barbuda ambassador a ‘no show’ before PAC
Ambassador David Shoul failed to make an appearance before the Antigua and Barbuda Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Tuesday afternoon, after being summoned by the chairman of the committee. Shoul was asked to prepare himself by bringing certain…
January 24, 2012
Signs of recovery, growth in tourism, says Bahamas PM
Noting the growth in tourism towards the end of the last quarter in 2011, Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham projected that the industry would see even greater improvements this year in the region. We begin 2012 with the hope that this year…
January 23, 2012
Allan Stanford trial starts
Jury selection began on Monday morning in the fraud trial of Allen Stanford in US federal court in Houston. The 61-year-old Stanford is charged with using his Houston-based financial empire to swindle investors of more than $7 billion. At the…
January 22, 2012
Grenada environment minister dismissed
Grenada’s Prime Minister Tillman Thomas, whose National Democratic Congress won 11 of 15 seats in the last general election, has fired a second minister in fewer than four years in office. Informed sources said Joseph Gilbert, MP for St Patrick…
January 22, 2012
Trinidad prime minister cleared by Integrity Commission
The Integrity Commission has cleared Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar of any wrongdoing in a complaint made alleging interference by her in the appointment of the director of the Financial Intelligence Unit. The prime…
January 22, 2012
US Presidential candidate allegedly linked to 1981 failed coup attempt in Dominica
In 1981, a lawyer tried to subpoena Ron Paul to testify in the trial of Don Black, a Grand Wizard for the Ku Klux Klan who would later go on to found the white supremacist, neo-Nazi website, Stormfront. Black was charged along with two other…