(Barbados Nation) Opposition leader Owen Arthur on Sunday told the woman he and four of his parliamentary colleagues ousted from the leadership of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) that the country and the party needed her.
Early Vincie poll The Vincentian parliament was dissolved yesterday ahead of general elections in less than a month’s time on 13 December.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – The death toll from Haiti’s cholera epidemic has reached more than 900 and the disease is present in six of the 10 provinces of the earthquake-battered Caribbean country, the Health Ministry said yesterday.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba has freed one of 13 political prisoners who refused to go into exile and will let him stay on the island, in a signal that all may be released soon.
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, (Reuters) – The Organization of American States urged Nicaragua and Costa Rica on Saturday to withdraw their security forces from a disputed river border in a spat that forced Google to correct its maps of the area.
(Barbados Nation) Mia Mottley, former leader of the Barbados Labour Party, says she will not be taking part in any tainted election process to select the party’s chairman.
(Trinidad Express) The most damning, explosive, “troublesome and vexing” of the revelations made by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar in the Parliament on Friday, was that the nation’s Head of State, its first citizen, President George Maxwell Richards’ phone was among those persons whose phones were being tapped and e-mails intercepted by the Strategic Intelligence Agency (SIA), the “secret intelligence agency,“ since 2005.
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Thursday stated that in her capacity of chairman of the National Security Council (NSC), she was never informed of the secret operations of the Security Intelligence Agency (SIA), a unit which spied on law-abiding citizens.
(Jamaica Observer) Two workmen died on Wednesday after the walls of a trench in which they were working to lay sewer pipes in Barbican, St Andrew, collapsed, covering them under mounds of earth.
(Jamaica Observer) Police Commissioner Owen Ellington has ordered members of the constabulary to dress and conduct themselves more professionally.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – The death toll in Haiti’s cholera epidemic climbed yesterday, reaching 800, according to a U.S.
(Barbados Nation) A delinquent court system. That’s how the Barbados Bar Association described the justice system in Barbados in a stinging letter sent to the Acting Chief Justice Sherman Moore earlier this week.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – A three-week-old cholera epidemic that has killed more than 640 people in Haiti is spreading quickly in the northwest coastal city of Gonaives, authorities said yesterday.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – A U.S.-developed video game that lets players try to kill Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro sparked an angry reaction from Cuba yesterday, the latest charge in the long history of bitter U.S.-Cuba
(Go Jamaica) Dancehall entertainers Vybz Kartel and Mavado remained in custody yesterday afternoon at the Constant Spring Police Station in St.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has been named as an international achiever alongside humanitarian Queen Rania, actress Julia Roberts, pop star Fergie and 23-year- old Katie Spotz who rowed 2,817 miles alone in 70 days.
(Trinidad Express) Talk show host and cricket commentator Fazeer Mohammed is questioning the timing of his dismissal from State-owned media network Caribbean New Media Group (CNMG) following an argument he had with a minister over Trinidadian Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissesar.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Failure by the Group of 20 nations this week to achieve a global solution to the problem of currency imbalances could lead to a trade war, Brazil’s Foreign Trade Secretary Welber Barral said.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Colombia will extradite a businessman accused of being a major drug kingpin back to his native Venezuela to face justice, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday on Cuban television.
Banana exports derailed Agriculture officials in St Lucia say it will be several months before the island’s hard-hit banana industry recovers from the devastation caused by Hurricane Tomas.
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