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LIAT pilots are refusing to be based in Trinidad because of the increasing criminal activity in the country.  So says Michael Blackburn, chairman of the Leeward Islands Pilots Association.

NEW YORK (March 15, 2008) – The prophets of doom and gloom are getting a jolting revelation following a landmark decision by Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government to elevate tourism to the top of their agenda.

The United States State Department has released a report indicating that it’s keeping a close eye on a number of Caribbean states where large amounts of money are being laundered.The 2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report just released by the Department pointed to a number of countries that are ‘jurisdictions […]

The grandson of two Caribbean nationals is posed to become the new governor of New York following Wednesday’s resignation of Governor Eliot Spitzer. Lieutenant Governor David A. Paterson (Born May 20, 1954) will be sworn in on Monday March 17 as New York‘s 55th governor; the first African American and the […]

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent: Addressing members of his Unity Labour Party (ULP), at a political rally last week, St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves urged his supporters to come out and give the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, “a warm Vincentian welcome.”

The West Indies cricket selectors have named the 15-man squad for first Test match against Sri Lanka which bowls off on Saturday, March 22 in Guyana.

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent: No grounds for judicial review, said Justice Gertel Thom on Tuesday morning, dismissing an application for judicial review by lawyers representing a female police officer who filed court documents stating that Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves indecently assaulted and raped her on January 3, 2008.

NEW YORK (March 11, 2008) – A Caribbean-American brand specialist is assessing the Barbados government’s reported drive to attract more international hotel brands to the island.

Just hours after welcoming his mother back to Trinidad from New York, a 27-year-old man was killed in front of her during a botched robbery at a Sangre Grande bar just after midnight on Sunday.

PORT OF SPAIN, Mar (IPS)  – When he visited Jamaica last year, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez urged Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries to join his Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), seen as an alternative to the fizzled U.S.-backed Free Trade Area of the Americas.

Thirty five year old former Guyana sprinter Roger Gill,  who competed for Guyana at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta was killed in a car crash in Brooklyn on Sunday March 2, 2008. The 2008 BMW in which Gill was riding hit an unoccupied truck early Sunday morning.  He died shortly after at […]

Popular reggae singer Dwight ‘Bushman’ Duncan has been left distraught after claims of being abused by police officers outside of a carnival event in St Thomas last Saturday.

HAVANA, Feb 28   (IPS)  – Although it may seem obvious, the need to involve men in the effort to attain gender equality is not clear to everyone in Latin America and the Caribbean, where quite a few people think it is an issue that mainly concerns the women’s rights movement.

Two leading figures in the cultural industry and connected to the National Cultural Foundation (NCF), Anthony Gabby Carter aka Mighty Gabby and Carol Roberts, marketing officer at the foundation, have been given their walking tickets.

China continues to show its support for Barbados‘ military with a donation of over BDS$900 000 worth of supplies. In a brief ceremony on Wednesday last, chief of staff of the Barbados Defense Force (BDF), Colonel Alvin Quintyne, and Permanent secretary in the Ministry of Defense also  Security, Antoinette Williams, […]