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October 12, 2011

Golding hints Holness will become PM ‘in a matter of days’

BRUCE Golding yesterday signalled that he would be stepping down as head of the Government…

October 12, 2011

TNT Dookeran: No easy way out by raising taxes

GOVERNMENT did not take the "easy way out" of raising taxes and cutting social spending with the 2011/ 2012 national budget, according to Finance Minister Winston Dookeran. He said it was quite a challenge to keep increased revenue without adding…

October 12, 2011

BlackBerry outage hits Jamaica

Sporadic outages of BlackBerry messaging and email service spread to Jamaica, the U.S and Canada on Wednesday, as problems stretched into the third day for Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa. In Jamaica, telecommunications company Digicel…

October 12, 2011

Prominent Jamaican politician indicted by US Grand Jury, Extradition request soon?

The Caricom News Network understands that a prominent Jamaican politician has been indicted by the United States authorities, possibly in connection with  the ongoing criminal matter involving reputed drug lord Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, who is…

October 12, 2011

$200,000 bail for Sport manager on rape charge

A project manager at the Sport Company of T&T (Sportt) was yesterday placed on $200,000 bail when he appeared in court accused of rape. Travis Watson, 32, a certified engineer of Malabar, Arima, was not called upon to plead when he appeared…

August 4, 2011

Tropical Storm Emily nears Dominican coast, Haiti

Tropical Storm Emily brushed past Puerto Rico and headed Wednesday toward the Dominican Republic and Haiti, where more than 630,000 people are still without shelter after last year's earthquake. A "steady shield of rain" should reach the island of…

August 2, 2011

Tropical storm Emily threatens region

A tropical storm watch remained for Haiti, the Dominican Republic…

August 2, 2011

Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez appears with close-shaved head

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has appeared with his head closely shaved, saying his hair has begun falling out because of chemotherapy. It was his "new look," he joked in English at a televised meeting at the presidential palace. Mr Chavez said…

August 2, 2011

Plane from New York crashes at Guyana airport

A plane has crashed and broken in two on landing at Guyana's main airport in the capital, Georgetown, causing injuries but no deaths. The Caribbean Airlines Boeing 737-800 flight BW-523 from New York had 163 people aboard. The plane apparently…

August 2, 2011

Panama police seize more than half a tonne of heroin

Police in Panama have seized more than half a tonne of heroin - one of the biggest ever drug hauls in the country's history, officials say. Officers found hundreds of plastic packages of the drug in a car in the remote Caribbean coastal town of…