Regional

December 24, 2010

US man sentenced to nearly 20 years for sex abuse in Haiti

It's a story filled with chapters on hope, dark desires, courage and persistence. On Tuesday, US District Judge Janet Bond Arterton wrote another one -- on justice -- sentencing Douglas Perlitz, the humanitarian-turned-sex predator, to 19 years…

December 22, 2010

Haiti looks for a way out of election chaos

In a traumatized nation with a poor history of clean voting, Haiti's recent elections were a disaster waiting…

December 22, 2010

IMF providing emergency funds to St Lucia

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday said the emergency funding being provided to St Lucia should play a catalytic role in mobilising financial support from other financial institutions as the island deals with the aftermath of the…

December 22, 2010

New York investment firm to build $127 million power plant in Jamaica

Conduit Capital Partners, a private equity investment firm based in New York City and focused on energy infrastructure investment and development in Latin America and the Caribbean, plans to build a $127 million power plant in West Kingston,…

December 22, 2010

Government finally pays teachers, JTA raises concerns about payments

The Jamaican Government says it has forwarded long-awaited retroactive payments to schools…

December 22, 2010

Morgue Overcrowded in the Bahamas

With 94 murders on the books so far for the year in addition to a number of other deaths, PMH Administrator Coralee Adderley said 2010 has been sort of a whirlwind year for the hospital’s morgue. Whether by murder, suicide, natural cause or some…

December 22, 2010

Clico payout next year

THE STATE will not begin releasing payments to Clico policyholders before the end of the year, Attorney General Anand Ramlogan said yesterday, as the Government revealed the Ministry of Finance has retained British Queen’s Counsel Gabriel Moss…

December 22, 2010

Woman Died in Dump Accident in St.Maarten.

On Tuesday morning between 09:00 and 10:00 am police and detectives responded to the Philipsburg landfill after they received a call informing them that a woman identified ad Patricia Brooks (41) years of age who collects empty bottles on the…

December 20, 2010

Australia to provide AU$63 million in assistance to CARICOM over next four years

Representatives of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat and Australia met at the Secretariat Headquarters, Turkeyen, Guyana, on Friday for the inaugural CARICOM-Australia high level meeting on the development assistance partnership.…

December 20, 2010

Trinidad billionaires win another stay of extradition

Two Trinidadian billionaires, who have been fighting extradition for the past three years, won their appeal in the Trinidad and Tobago Court of Appeal when the court ordered a stay of the extradition order and ruled that the attorney general's…