Regional

December 29, 2010

Guyana rice industry records highest ever exports in 2010

The rice industry in Guyana recorded its highest export of 320,000 tonnes with a production of 360,000 for 2010, due to the input of farmers and technical and extension services, inclusive of water management by the Agriculture Ministry, despite…

December 24, 2010

Officials: 45 people lynched in Haiti amid cholera fears

At least 45 people, most of them voodoo priests, have been lynched in Haiti…

December 24, 2010

Controversial activists arrested in Guyana

Two controversial Guyanese, Mark Benschop, a social and political activist and Freddie Kissoon, a university lecturer and columnist of the Kaiteur News newspaper, who were arrested for two minor offences and were locked up for two nights, went on…

December 24, 2010

Trinidad public servants threaten to shut down country on January 4

President of the Trinidad and Tobago Public Service Association (PSA) Watson Duke has declared an intensified war on the government in the New Year. He said he had asked public servants to stop working on January 4 and he was calling for a…

December 24, 2010

Jamaica could ditch both Privy Council and CCJ

Prime Minister Bruce Golding has suggested the possibility of Jamaica establishing its own final Court of Appeal…

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…