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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – Trinidad and Tobago’s proven natural gas reserves have contracted by one per cent last year, but Energy Minister Kevin Ramnarine said the figures show the authorities are “arresting” the decline in recent years. According ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – The United States and Trinidad and Tobago have signed a treaty that will effectively afford “left-behind parents” the full remedies of the Hague Convention to resolve child abduction cases. The Hague Abduction Convention treaty ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. CMC – Caribbean countries have been warned that while increased financial integration has facilitated the flow of funds and allowed regional countries to overcome scale constraints, the increased interconnectedness has also built systemic risks and increased the likelihood ...

CARACAS, Venezuela CMC – The Venezuelan government is set to increase the interest rate it charges to finance oil purchases by Central American and Caribbean countries under the Petrocaribe deal. According to reports from online financial news agency Platts, the ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina CMC – President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Luis Alberto Moreno, has praised Jamaica for the progress it has made in reducing road accidents in recent years. Moreno said that the Washington-based bank is committed to ...

TORONTO, Ontario – Twelve-year-old Omri Brown, a singer, and 13-year-old drummer, Shiloh Higgins, the daughter of veteran journalist, Dalton Higgins, will be two of the young performers who will showcase their talents at TweenFest — a component of RastaFest — ...

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua CMC – Dominica won the Jaycees Queen pageant for a second consecutive year after Leslassa Shillingford won the 2013 title on Friday night, as Carnival activities continue in Antigua and Barbuda. Miss. Shillingford won from a field ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – Dominican Percival Marie, Thursday, took up the appointment of Director General of the Caribbean Forum of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (CARIFORUM) pledging to effect an integrated and comprehensive approach to the work of the two ...

By Peter Richards PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – A new session of the Trinidad and Tobago parliament began, here, on Friday with the interim leader of the Independent Liberal Party (ILP) Austin “Jack Warner being sworn in as a ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – Jamaica police say six men are assisting in their investigations into the murder of an 11-year-old school girl as the West Kingston constituency remains tense from the murder and violence last week. Senior Superintendent, Ronald Anderson, ...