April 11, 2015
T&T robbery suspects caught on flight to Jamaica
One of the two women detained on Wednesday night at Piarco International Airport onboard a flight to Jamaica has admitted to removing a box containing cash shortly after Chinese businessman Hi Hong Huang was fatally shot outside his establishment in…
April 11, 2015
Venezuela reiterates commitment to PetroCaribe
Venezuela has again restated its commitment to PetroCaribe, the Caracas’ oil initiative with several Latin American and Caribbean countries that sees them purchasing fuel on terms of preferential payment, with some of the funds going to social…
April 5, 2015
Cuba’s Fidel Castro makes rare appearance after 14 months
The former president of Cuba, Fidel Castro, has made his first appearance in 14 months. He met a delegation of Venezuelan officials on a solidarity mission to Cuba at a local school. The 88-year-old revolutionary icon was described as "full of…
March 30, 2015
IMF completes Jamaica’s seventh review, approves US$39-m disbursement
The Ministry of Finance and Planning announced in a statement today that Jamaica has successfully completed the seventh International Monetary Fund review, and is now eligible to receive a further US$39 million. The review was completed today March…
March 30, 2015
Polish priest jailed for abusing boys in Dominican Republic
Wojciech Gil, a former priest convicted of abusing minors in the Dominican Republic and Poland, was sentenced to seven years in jail by a Polish court on Wednesday. The court in Wolomin found Gil guilty of abusing six minors in the Dominican…
March 23, 2015
PM says Barbados moving towards Republic
Prime Minister Freundel Stuart says Barbados will be moving towards a republican form of government “in the very near future” ending its centuries old relationship with Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as its head of state. “We cannot pat ourselves on the…
March 23, 2015
TT Security Minister orders investigation into road blocks
National Security Minister Carl Alfonso has called on the senior management of the police service to provide a report on who ordered nation-wide police road blocks that virtually crippled Trinidad and Tobago on Monday. The police have denied that…
March 22, 2015
CARICOM restates support for Guyana in border dispute with Venezuela
The 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has come out in full support of Guyana after Venezuela declared that the “Arbitral award of 1899, which definitively settled the boundary between the two countries, is null and void”. CARICOM said it had…
March 19, 2015
Dominican Republic leader a shoe in on reelection bid
The latest survey by pollster Penn, Schoen & Berland found that 76% of voters think that President Danilo Medina could be re-elected in the next election, 23% disagree and 1% don’t know or didn’t respond. Published by SIN network, the survey…
March 17, 2015
President Obama to visit Jamaica
United States President Barack Obama is set to visit Jamaica next month, highly placed OBSERVER ONLINE sources have confirmed. Obama is scheduled to attend a meeting in Kingston on April 9, after which he will leave for Panama to attend the Summit…