Regional

June 22, 2011

United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits Jamaica

United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will today reaffirm her nation's commitment to the region when she visits Montego Bay, St James, to meet with her Caribbean counterparts. In a release last night, the US Embassy in Kingston said…

June 22, 2011

Haiti parliament rejects Martelly’s nomination for PM

The Haitian parliament Tuesday rejected the nomination of Daniel-Gerard Rouzier to serve as prime minister, in a blow to new President Michel Martelly. More than a month after Martelly took up the reins of power in the quake-hit Caribbean nation,…

June 21, 2011

Bahamas backs gay rights

The Bahamas supports the United Nations Human Rights Council resolution passed last week that…

June 17, 2011

Cuba claims US legislator trying to sabotage access to oil reserves

US Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of…

June 17, 2011

Jamaica to sign solar energy MoU with US company

Jamaica’s Department of Local Government is to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with American company, Green Energy Management, to test a new set of solar energy technologies. The partnership forms part of the Department’s thrust to…

June 17, 2011

REDjet talks to expand operations

Transport ministers from Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago ended talks here on Wednesday promising to provide the necessary documents required by the Caribbean’s first low budget carrier to expand its operations in the region. Jamaica’s…

June 17, 2011

Customs Intercept 18 year old with Cocaine in Chocolate Chip Cookies.

Customs officials intercepted an 18 year old girl on Thursday who had two kilos of cocaine in chocolate chip cookies and two posters. The young female passenger identified as P.S. was traveling from Curacao to St. Maarten on an Insel Air flight.…

June 17, 2011

HIV/AIDS victim gets 25 years for manslaughter

ANTHONY ATWELL defended a murder charge for killing his wife on the grounds that she infected him with the deadly HIV virus, but he himself went on to have sex with at least two other women. In renewing his call yesterday for legislation to have…

June 16, 2011

Haitian-Bahamian tension could lead to violence, said US diplomatic cable

The Americans are of the view that the unaddressed issue of Haitian integration in The…

June 15, 2011

Traffic horrors as gas tanker flips in Trinidad

An accident involving a gas tanker caused a traffic pile-up, stretching from the…