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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…

December 20, 2010

Guyana loses all confidence in CARICOM trade negotiator

The government of Guyana has written to Caribbean Community (CARICOM) secretary general Sir Edwin Carrington affirming that it has lost all confidence in senior trade negotiator in the Office of Trade Negotiations Carl Greenidge and will not…

December 20, 2010

French manufacturer says its planes are safe after safety issues raised by Trinidad government

French aircraft manufacturer ATR says its planes are safe and that suggestions made by the People's Partnership government in Trinidad and Tobago that there may be safety issues with its aircraft have no basis in fact. The Trinidad Express…

December 20, 2010

Cuban programme helps 60,000 Guatemalans learn to read and write

A year considered as a year of consolidation for the Cuban “Yes I Can” literacy teaching programme, by way of which some 60,000 illiterates learned how to read and write, is coming to an end in Guatemala. A total of 11 municipalities in that…

December 20, 2010

Dalley lashes US in swirling WikiLeaks drama

THE United States has again found itself in the line of heavy criticism as a result of confidential diplomatic cables published by the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks and a British newspaper for what appeared to be an attempt four years ago by…

December 16, 2010

Former Guyana lawmaker sentenced to life for terror plot at JFK airport

Abdul Kadir, a Guyanese who formerly served as a lawmaker in Guyana, was on Wednesday jailed for…