October 26, 2011
Hurricane Rina grows in Caribbean
Hurricane Rina has swelled to a Category 2 storm as it sweeps towards…
October 26, 2011
Gadhafi’s friend to the death, Chavez calls Libyan leader ‘a martyr’
It was the year 2000. Standing at attention, a relatively unknown Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, only 18 months after taking office, was positioned right next to one of the world's most-controversial dictators. Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi,…
October 26, 2011
Amnesty: Killings by Dominican police ‘alarming’
Police in the Dominican Republic were responsible for an "alarming" 10.5% of the nation's killings last year, Amnesty International said Tuesday, citing government statistics. A report from the human rights organization sharply criticizes the…
October 26, 2011
New Jamaican PM becomes region’s youngest
History was created on Sunday, when 39-year-old Andrew Michael Holness was sworn in as Jamaica’s youngest prime minister. In a 90-minute ceremony presided over by Governor-General Sir Patrick Allen and attended by some 4,000 guests, the country’s…
October 26, 2011
Trinidad and Tobago to launch first drug treatment court in 2012 with OAS support
Trinidad and Tobago will launch the country’s first drug treatment court in 2012, to include technical assistance, training and cooperation from the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) of the Organization of American States…
October 23, 2011
Jamaica welcomes ninth prime minister
The transition of leadership of the government of Jamaica will be completed on Sunday, when…
October 23, 2011
Forecasters eying two tropical systems
According to the national Hurricane Center in Miami, an area of low pressure over the western Caribbean Sea is centered about 170 miles east of the coast of Nicaragua. The associated shower activity has become better organized and there is a…
October 23, 2011
Cops arrest 172 lawbreakers within 24 hours
POLICE arrested 172 people between Friday night and early yesterday, 56 of them for breach of curfew including 11 women, and 36 on charges of drunk driving. Twenty-two suspects, ranging between ages 24 and 41, were held by Southern Division…
October 23, 2011
Marco Rubio admits wrong dates in Cuban parents ‘exile’
A Florida Republican often touted as a possible 2012 vice-presidential candidate has admitted his Cuban parents did not come to the US as exiles from Fidel Castro's rule. Senator Marco Rubio acknowledges "getting a few dates wrong" about when…
October 23, 2011
Bahamas Security Minister Hails Success of Electronic Monitoring Syst
Seventeen persons have been remanded to Her Majesty’s Prisons, Fox Hill, for breach of the terms of the Electronic Monitoring System, Minister of National Security the Hon. O.A.T. “Tommy” Turnquest said. The programme is currently being…