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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – Former national security minister, Retired Brigadier Joseph Theodore, died last Saturday, from a massive heart attack at the Westshore Private Hospital, west of here. A government statement said that Theodore, believed to be in ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – Lawyers representing the family of a baby, who had been switched at birth, are seeking five million dollars (One TT dollar = US$0.16 cents) in compensation from the Trinidad and Tobago government. In a ...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada CMC – The Grenada government said, Monday, that it would make the “necessary changes” to the Electronic Crimes Bill after the legislation was criticized by regional and international media groups as curbing free speech on the island. ...

NASSAU, Bahamas CMC – A senior World Bank official has warned Caribbean countries that they need to put their house in order as the United States begins to wind down its “quantitative easing” (QE) stimulus program that has, among other ...

By Nicole Best Caribbean Correspondent  NASSAU, Bahamas CMC – Caribbean countries have told the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other international lending agencies that the region should not be lumped with other nations and classified as middle income countries. Bahamas ...

BASSETTERE, St. Kitts CMC – As St. Kitts Nevis celebrates 30 years of Independence, Prime Minister, Dr. Denzil Douglas, announced that civil servants will be granted a pay increase by the end of the year. In his Independence message on ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – Director General of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), Zulfikar Mohammed, says pilot error led to the July 30, 2011 crash of a Caribbean Airlines flight. According to Mohammed, the report on the mishap will be ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – A Trinidadian national, employed as a research economist in Kenya, was among several people killed when Al Shabaab militant attackers held up Nairobi’s Westgate Shopping Mall over the weekend, killing at least 68 people. ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – Embattled Junior Works Minister, Richard Azan, has resigned hours after the main opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) announced it would boycott parliament if he failed to do so by Tuesday next week. Prime Minister, Portia Simpson ...

By Ramy Srour US Correspondent WASHINGTON, D.C. (IPS) – In the aftermath of the worst terror attack in East Africa in three years, foreign policy scholars here are urging the U.S. government to rethink its counter-terror policy in the region. ...