April 6, 2016
Trinidad defends decision to turn away Jamaican nationals
Trinidad and Tobago’s Foreign Affairs Minister Dennis Moses says 12 Jamaicans were denied into the twin-island republic last month because they were deemed “likely to become charges on public funds”. The group of Jamaicans had accused immigration…
April 6, 2016
Haiti police arrest 35 including five cop killers
The National Police of Haiti (PNH) says law enforcement officials have arrested 35 people including five for the murder of four police officers and three for lynching three disabled women last week. PNH deputy spokesman and the Principal Inspector,…
April 1, 2016
Jamaica equipped to conduct Zika testing for other countries
Jamaica is equipped to conduct Zika virus testing on behalf of other countries if so assigned by the World Health Organization (WHO). Acting Director of the National Virology Reference Laboratory at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI),…
March 17, 2016
Beaches & Sandals Takes Aim at Engineering Graduates
Sandals Resorts International (SRI) remains committed to human resource development and has launched its latest drive to unearth bright young stars through its Management Trainee Programme (MTP). This time around however, the Luxury-Included®…
March 16, 2016
Policeman in Trinidad to stand trial for trafficking Colombian women
In Trinidad and Tobago’s first human trafficking case, a 55-year-old suspended police officer has been committed to stand trial on 13 charges of human trafficking and prostitution. Constable Valentine Eastman was yesterday found to have a case to…
March 16, 2016
Caricom Secretariat gets energy monitoring equipment under GIZ/REETA Programme
Energy monitoring equipment was handed over to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat on Tuesday, 8 March 2016. The equipment, worth more than US$20,000, was donated by the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) through the…
February 29, 2016
Venezuela government accused of Zika virus cover-up
Venezuelan opposition legislator José Manuel Olivares has added his voice to claims that the country has under-reported hundreds of thousands of cases of the Zika virus currently sweeping the region.Olivares assertion joins similar concerns shared…
February 29, 2016
Abu Bakr’s son to take legal action against Trinidad police
Fuad Abu Bakr, son of Muslim leader Yasin Abu Bakr, says he plans to take legal action against the Trinidad and Tobago and Police Service after being wrongfully detained for seven hours on Wednesday. Bakr, who is political leader of the New National…
February 29, 2016
CDB Urges Regional Governments to DECIDE
The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has pointed to an urgent need for broad policy initiatives, including labour market reform and investment in developing the skills of potential workers to move regional economies forward. In a presentation at the…
February 24, 2016
Chicken pox outbreak forces closure of primary school in Grenada
Grenada health authorities Tuesday confirmed that an outbreak of Chicken Pox at a primary school has forced the closure of the school for at least one week. “The Ministry of Education and Human Resource Development further advises that any and all…