July 13, 2016
Torrential rain kills six in Haiti, including children
Torrential rain in the impoverished Haiti killed six people over the weekend, including four children, authorities said yesterday Tuesday. Three of the children — aged two, six and eight — were part of the same family and lost their lives when…
July 13, 2016
Walt Disney cruise ship rescues fugitives off coast of Cuba
A Walt Disney Co cruise ship has rescued three fugitives off the coast of Cuba who were wanted in New Orleans. US Marshal Amos Rojas Jr said in a news release that last Thursday, the Disney Fantasy cruise ship found the fugitives clinging to a…
July 12, 2016
CDB launches USD$21.94M education project in Suriname
The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) on Tuesday launched its first project in Suriname. The USD21.94 million intervention supports the Government of Suriname’s programme of reform to improve the quality of and expand access to Technical and…
July 12, 2016
Police intensify search for ‘Duppy Film’
Police today intensified their search for Marlon 'Duppy Film' Perry, one of Jamaica's most wanted men. In a joint police/military operation earlier today, lawmen combed the Harbour View area of St Andrew in an effort to apprehend 'Duppy Film' and…
July 12, 2016
20,000-plus “illegal” Jamaicans costing Trinidad millions
Trinidad and Tobago’s former national security minister is claiming that there are over 20,000 undocumented Jamaicans in the twin-island republic who are a burden on the country and costing government to lose out on half billion dollars every year.…
July 12, 2016
Diplomat Found Dead in El Salvador
Panama's honorary consul in El Salvador was found dead found Thursday with a gunshot wound to the head, officials in San Salvador said. El Salvador's attorney general's office and National Civil Police said the body of Carlos Armando Lemus was found…
July 12, 2016
IMF to help Guyana in move to reduce VAT
The Guyana government is considering reducing the Value Added Tax (VAT) in a move that could see the expansion of the tax base. But changes are not likely before the next budget. At a media conference yesterday, Minister of Finance Winston Jordan…
July 4, 2016
Golding to chair Caricom Review Commission
PRIME Minister Andrew Holness yesterday announced that former Prime Minister Bruce Golding will chair a Caribbean Community (Caricom) Review Commission to be established by the Government. He said that the commission would aim at positioning Jamaica…
July 1, 2016
Antigua looking to Cuban market
Antigua and Barbuda is sending a trade mission to Cuba that Trade, Commerce and Industry Minister, Paul Chet Greene, has described as a strategic move given the imminent lifting of the decades-old United States trade embargo. "We need to get in on…
July 1, 2016
Rowley vows to settle immigration dispute between T&T, Jamaica
Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) Dr. Keith Rowley and Jamaica's Prime Minister Andrew Holness have agreed to bring to an end the ongoing dispute between both countries concerning immigration. Relations between the two Caribbean…