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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – Disaster officials, on Tuesday, confirmed that several houses had lost their roofs as Trinidad and Tobago was being affected by an inter-tropical convergence zone. Chairman of the San Juan Laventille Regional Corporation, Anthony Roberts, ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados CMC – Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Commission on the Economy, Darcy Boyce, on Monday, warned that if Caribbean economies are to overcome the low economic growth experienced in recent years, the export earning sectors must grow ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – The Guyana government says it has extended the gun amnesty by a further two weeks, after law enforcement authorities said they had recovered more than 100 firearms during the month long initiative in September. The Ministry ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government Monday presented a TT$62.8 billion (One TT dollar =US$0.16 cents) budget to Parliament outlining a host of new taxes including, a 15 per cent increase on gasoline and diesel ...

Photo above: Guyana’s President David Granger, left, shares a toast with newly accredited EU Ambassador to Guyana, Jernej Videtič. Photo credit: newssourcegy.com. GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – On Monday, the European Union (EU) offered to assist Guyana in developing and implementing major ...

MIAMI, Florida CMC – The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency says officers at Miami International Airport have seized US$2,000 in counterfeit US currency arriving in a package of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle colouring sheets from Trinidad and ...

JOHN’S, Antigua CMC – The Antigua and Barbuda government, on Tuesday, adopted a cautious approach to international media reports that a former senior diplomat had been charged in the United States in connection with a multimillion-dollar corruption scandal that, allegedly, ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Justice Minister Mark Golding has made an impassioned plea for “political consensus between the government and the Opposition” when the Senate begins debates on the legislation to adopt the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as ...

Photo above: Internet parlour at the University of Camagüey in eastern Cuba, where the first social network developed entirely in this country, Dreamcatchers, was born. Photo credit: Jorge Luis Baños/IPS. By Ivet González IPS Cuba Correspondent HAVANA, Cuba (IPS) — Young ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A senior magistrate Friday, adjourned to December 2, the start of the extradition hearing in the case, in which the former FIFA vice president Austin Jack Warner is wanted in the United States, on ...