March 9, 2011
Police kept busy during Trinidad carnival
The 2011 carnival celebrations in Trinidad and Tobago were very successful and on Monday nearly all the ministers and other lawmakers had their fun tramping on stage. The US Ambassador Beatrice Wilkinson Welters joined in the merrymaking,…
March 6, 2011
Extradition request flawed, insists Jamaican minister
Jamaican’s Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Senator Dorothy Lightbourne,…
March 6, 2011
Caribbean leaders welcome move to settle border dispute between Guyana and Venezuela
Caribbean leaders have endorsed and welcomed the appointment of University of the West Indies (UWI) professor, Dr Norman Girvan, as personal representative of the secretary-general of the Organization of American States (OAS), Jose Miguel…
March 6, 2011
Guyana opposition presidential candidate agrees to coalition
Retired Brigadier David Granger, who was last weekend elected as the presidential candidate for Guyana’s main opposition People's National Congress Reform (PNCR), said he remains committed to his party's position to an opposition coalition to…
March 6, 2011
Cuba puts American on trial
The trial of an American telecommunications contractor started in Cuba on Friday. The contractor, Alan Gross, faces a possible 20-year sentence for what the Cuban government calls an "act against the integrity and independence" of the country.…
March 6, 2011
Jamaica’s 44 magistrates on strike for better remuneration and working conditions
Jamaica's 44 resident magistrates stayed off of the job on Thursday in a rare protest against working conditions, including security, and remuneration. The strike kept clerks of court across the island busy rescheduling cases and extending bail…
March 3, 2011
Nearly 260 Haitian migrants picked up at sea in Bahamas
Almost 260 Haitian migrants were apprehended by the Royal Bahamas Defence Force…
March 3, 2011
Hundreds of Caribbean teachers in a quandary in New York
Hundreds of teachers who left the Caribbean several years ago to work in New York are now in a quandary, since they were misled when recruited by New York City schools. A BBC Caribbean report stated that promises of “green cards” (legal…
March 3, 2011
Protesters defy police at rally in Trinidad
Public servants in Port of Spain, Trinidad, defied the police and risked arrest on Tuesday when they formed a human barricade at the public entrance of the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago and later converged near the Parliament's entrance at…
March 3, 2011
PM says Trinidadians will hang opposition for not supporting ‘hanging bill’
Minutes after Trinidad and Tobago House Speaker Wade Mark announced the government's death penalty bill had "failed", Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said the population would "hang the PNM" for not supporting the legislation. The bill…