Regional

April 20, 2011

TT PM wants audit of regional security agency

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says she intends bringing allegations of corruption at the Trinidad-based Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Imple-mentation Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS) to regional leaders after a newspaper published…

April 20, 2011

Martelly heads to the US

Haiti –President–elect Michel Martelly is scheduled to leave here…

April 20, 2011

Cuba Lifts Ban on Private Property Transactions

The ruling Communist Party of Cuba Monday lifted a decades-old ban on private property transactions such as buying and selling of houses and cars at its ongoing Sixth Congress. The move met one of the main demands made by the public during the…

April 20, 2011

AG on UFF probe: $5m paid to ‘PNM family

Close to $5 million of taxpayers’ money was paid by the Government in legal fees to people representing the State in the UFF Commission of Enquiry who were “no strangers to the PNM” and who were “part of the family, Attorney General Anand…

April 19, 2011

Cuban Communist Party Approves Sweeping Reforms

Cuban state-run media report that the nation's Communist Party has approved sweeping economic reforms and voted…

April 19, 2011

Trinidad PM calls for unity

Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar has called on citizens to unite and work together in the best interest and development of the country. Speaking at the Hanuman Jayanti celebrations at the Divali Nagar site in Chaguanas,…

April 19, 2011

More than $2 Million In Drugs Found in the Bahamas

The most recent incident took place on Saturday morning around 11 after officers of the force's Mobile Division searched a home on Montgomery Street, located off Carmichael Road. During their search, officers found two packages of suspected…

April 19, 2011

2 000 Caribbean criminals deported

The United States has deported more than 2, 000 criminals back to the Caribbean in the past six months, according to figures released by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The figures show that from the start of the 2011 fiscal…

April 19, 2011

New visa requirements

Nationals of Guyana and Jamaica now require visas to enter St. Maarten and Aruba, the Ministry of Justice here said today. “Please be advised that on April 11, 2011 visa requirements for nationals of Guyana and Jamaica, visiting St. Maarten, went…

April 17, 2011

Irish Republic’s economic progress gets EU approval

The Republic of Ireland's progress on deficit reduction has been approved by the European authorities - a condition of last year's bail-out. They have looked at the Republic's performance throughout the first three months of the year and have…