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July 9, 2011

Internet streaming firm Netflix expanding to the Caribbean

The Internet on-demand media distributor, Netflix, is to launch streaming services in 43 Caribbean and Latin American "later this year", the firm said here. Subscribers in there region will be able to access American, global and local TV shows…

July 9, 2011

Jay-Z Gives Press Taste of Kanye Collabo ‘Watch the Throne’

Below, writer Theo Spielberg of AOL’s The Boombox gives a detailed account of Jay-Z’s exclusive listening party for “Watch the Throne, his anticipated new album with one-time protégé Kanye West. Spielberg writes: The lobby of the Mercer Hotel was…

July 8, 2011

Look to the south, Colombia urges CARICOM

President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, has encouraged heads of government of the Caribbean…

July 8, 2011

Jamaican lesbian gains asylum in UK

A tribunal has awarded a Jamaican lesbian "refugee protection" in the United Kingdom following her appeal that she would be at risk of persecution and clinical depression should she return to this country. The BBC reported that the woman, who had…

July 8, 2011

Bruce tells Audley to ensure workers get paid

PUBLIC sector leaders were finally able to put their signatures to an agreement this morning for the more than 100,000 civil servants to receive the long-awaited seven per cent increase which has been owed by Government since 2009. At a special…

July 8, 2011

International Drug Gang Busted — 1.1 ton of Cocaine Seized on Sea — Heist worth 42 Million Euros.

An international operation between Flensburg and the French and Spanish authorities has allowed the French Coast Guard to apprehend two Germans on board a yacht which was moving towards St. Maarten on July 2nd 2011 with 1.1 ton of cocaine on…

July 6, 2011

Shark fishing banned in the Bahamas

The Bahamas has banned shark fishing in its waters and prohibited the sale, import and export of shark products.

July 6, 2011

PM says REDjet interested in flying into St Kitts

As the REDjet issue simmers in the Caribbean, St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas said the new low-fare airline will be welcome to operate into and out of the twin-island Federation. Douglas, the current chairman of the regional…

July 6, 2011

U.S. Coast Guard sends home 122 Haitian, Cuban boaters

The U.S. Coast Guard has returned more than 120 Cuban and Haitian migrants to their Caribbean homelands. The Coast Guard says 82 Haitians were aboard a 40-foot sailing vessel intercepted Friday northwest of Great Inagua, Bahamas. They were all…

July 4, 2011

CARICOM has made substantial progress, says Trinidad PM

Trinidad and Tobago prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has once again stated her country's…