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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, […]

  KINGSTON, Jamaica (February 26, 2008) – Air Jamaica is increasing its seat capacity from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York to both Barbados and Grenada, effective April 1, 2008.Paul Pennicook, Air Jamaica‘s Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales, announced that the Caribbean carrier will continue to serve the New York-Barbados […]

HAVANA, Feb  (IPS)  – Ten years after the historic visit to Cuba by Pope John Paul II, who passed away in 2005, the Catholic Church continues to call for “unlimited” scope and “due freedom” for its social action initiatives in this socialist country, as one of its most important demands.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Feb(IPS)  – It was not supposed to be so. Soon after beating the Dec. 31 deadline last year, Caribbean leaders were patting themselves on the backs for having reached a “far reaching” Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Europe that they said would help ensure the future […]

TAMPA, Feb 20  (IPS)  – Cuban President Fidel Castro’s decision to resign his political office was met with a wide range of emotions and feelings in Florida, home to the largest Cuban population outside Cuban.

WASHINGTON, DC (February 22, 2008) – Reporters, editors and young people could, with the stroke or two of their pens, secure fellowships to attend one of the most sought after media gatherings in the Caribbean.

HAVANA, Cuba (CNN) — Although the news that one of the longest-serving leaders in the world was officially stepping down sent ripples around the globe, Fidel Castro’s resignation announcement barely registered in Cuba.