July 11, 2011
Jamaican-born US marine killed in Afghanistan buried with full honours
A Jamaican-born, United States (US) marine sergeant, who was killed in Afghanistan last month, has been laid to rest with full military honours at a US veterans cemetery. After a funeral service on Friday, family members and other mourners bid…
July 9, 2011
$300m in VAT owed
MORE THAN $300 million in Value Added Tax (VAT) was owed to the Barbados government as of last May 21. And according to Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs Chris Sinckler, there were vast insufficiencies in the current VAT legislation…
July 9, 2011
Over 700 Haitian Physicians Graduated from Cuba’s Caribbean School of Medicine
With the graduation this week of 115 new Haitian physicians, the number of young doctors from that country who have graduated from the Santiago de Cuba-based Caribbean School of Medicine rises to 731. This cooperation project, conceived by Fidel…
July 9, 2011
Grenada PM looking for greater Caribbean/Latin American ties
Grenada’s Prime Minister Tillman Thomas is interested is further cementing ties with Venezuela and other South American countries, which can help Grenada develop its energy resource sector.“We really want to see that community of Latin America and…
July 9, 2011
Hundreds of patients exposed to radiation overdose in T&T
More than 200 patients have been exposed to overdoses of radiation treatment due to malfunctioning equipment at the Brian Lara Cancer Treatment Centre, Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan has said. Dr Khan and Chief Medical Officer Dr Anton Cumberbatch…
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…