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April 5, 2011

Michel Martelly ‘defeats’ Mirlande Manigat

Preliminary results in Haiti's presidential election suggest musician Michel "Sweet Micky"…

April 5, 2011

Anguilla to seek independence

Anguilla Chief Minister Hubert Hughes said that Britain's approval of his December 2010 budget is a little too late and signalled his intention to seek independence for the British Overseas Territory. "We lost out on so much revenue, we have lost…

April 5, 2011

Guyana ruling party selects presidential candidate

As expected, the general secretary of Guyana’s ruling People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC), Donald Ramotar, has been elected as the party's presidential candidate, but what came as surprise at Monday's meeting was that he was unopposed. The…

April 5, 2011

Trinidad PM has busy week ahead in Washington

Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar is now in Washington. She will spend the next five days holding a series of meetings and addressing organisations. On Sunday night she dined with President Barack Obama and Mrs Obama. She…

April 2, 2011

Haiti’s presidential election results delayed by fraud

Fraud has forced Haiti's election council to delay results of a highly anticipated…

April 2, 2011

Jamaican PM denies recommending extradition

On Thursday, Prime Minister Bruce Golding told the Commission of Enquiry currently ongoing in Jamaica that he did not advise attorney general Dorothy Lightbourne to sign the authority to proceed with the extradition process against alleged drug…

April 2, 2011

Former Barbados deputy PM wants abuse scandal to be resolved swiftly

Former deputy prime minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, has called for the issue regarding a Jamaican national, who claims that she was sexually and verbally abused by Barbadian customs and immigration officials, be taken out of the public……

April 2, 2011

Bahamas named in money laundering probe

The Bahamas has been named as the jurisdiction where $176 million was allegedly laundered in a scandal linked to a senior Panamanian government official. For The Bahamas, the fact that the laundering of the $176 million was alleged to have…

April 2, 2011

Former FBI agent retracts story

A former Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) agent, who told an undercover investigator that he routinely arrested Bahamian criminal defendants in South Florida and unlawfully sent them back to their homeland on commercial flights, now said he…

March 31, 2011

Jimmy Carter criticises US Cuba policy

Former US president Jimmy Carter - on a visit to Cuba - has criticised US policy towards the…