Regional

January 30, 2011

Bagga Brown is Dead

Basil ‘Bagga’ Brown, former insurance salesman, veteran radio and television personality and co-founder of the now defunct Rockers Award, is a patient at the Medical Associates  is dead.   Reports are that Bagga, who hosts the popular vox pop…

January 28, 2011

Sandals CEO gives top marks to LIME

ADAM Stewart, CEO of the award-winning Sandals Resorts International, earlier this week gave top marks to…

January 28, 2011

Banana company to enter liquidation

After several years of financial difficulty and wrangling over its management, the St Lucia Banana Corporation (SLBC) has adopted a resolution for the voluntary liquidation of its assets valued in excess of EC$10 million (US$3.7 million) SLBC…

January 27, 2011

Free movement of persons, but according to our laws, says Barbados PM

Barbados is not opposed to the freedom of movement of persons in this region, Prime Minister Freundel…

January 27, 2011

Former Court of Appeal judge sues St Lucia government for retirement benefits

Former Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal Judge, Denys Barrow, has filed a claim against the government of St Lucia for his retirement benefits. Barrow, a Belizean, said in a statement that he was forced to file a claim against the government of…

January 27, 2011

Guyana will not arrest Suriname president

Guyana's President Bharrat Jagdeo says that his country will not arrest Suriname's head of state, Desi Bouterse, when he visits Guyana. Jagdeo made the statement in response to a question posed by an officer of the Guyana Defence Force at the…

January 27, 2011

Lime cuts top execs

Cable & Wireless Caribbean (C&W) has cut three of its very senior executives and Barbadian vice-president Donald Austin is among them. In a major shake-up that a C&W official described yesterday as a “realignment of the management team”, the…

January 23, 2011

Haiti’s Preval: ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier ‘must face justice’

Haiti's ex-leader Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier had the right to return to the country but must now face justice,…

January 23, 2011

UN calls for Mexico probe into migrant train abductions

The UN human rights chief has urged Mexico to investigate the possible involvement of officials in the abduction of about 40 migrants. Navi Pillay said the Central American migrants had been "abducted in highly questionable circumstances" from a…

January 23, 2011

Dominican Republic confirms first cholera death

The Dominican Republic has officially registered its first cholera death since an epidemic of the disease began sweeping through neighbouring Haiti. Health officials said the victim was a 53-year-old Haitian who was being treated in the eastern town…