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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Chairman of the Independent Liberal Party (ILP), Jack Warner, has been ordered to pay the councillor of the Chaguanas Borough Corporation TT$220,000 (One TT dollar = US$0.16 cents) in damages for defamation. Earlier this ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Talbert McPherson, has begun serving the remaining 20 years of a 25-year prison sentence for raping an eight-year-old girl. The court, last week Friday, passed the sentence on the man, for the 2009 crime in the ...

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Dominica’s Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, says, the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) must mobilise large sums of money if it is to address the challenges confronting its nine-member countries. “And that is where we ...

Analysis by Diana Cariboni Guest Writer MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (IPS) – While this week’s BRICS summit might have been off the radar of Western powers, the leaders of its five member countries launched a financial system to rival Bretton Woods institutions ...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Former Governor General Boswell Williams passed away at his Sans Souci residence here on Sunday. He was 88. Williams represented the Southern town of Vieux Fort in the legislature from 1974 to 1979 and was ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica has confirmed its first of the mosquito transmitted chikungunya virus. Chief Medical Officer in the Minister of Health, Dr. Kevin Harvey, confirmed the diagnosis on Thursday following receipt of a report from the Caribbean Public ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Nine men are expected to be charged on Friday after being held during a police raid of an underground factory in which fake Clarks shoes were being made. The police report that acting on information they ...

GEORETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The suspect in the murder of two homosexual sex workers early Sunday morning, committed suicide hours later in the day by setting himself afire. The suspect, Samuel Bristol, 31, doused himself with gasoline and set his ...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – A commanding performance by school principal, Wulstan Alfred, stage name ‘Walleigh’, earned him his second Calypso King title at last Saturday’s calypso finals at the Beausejour grounds in the island’s north. Alfred scored 737 points ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Water Minister, Robert Pickersgill has warned the country to brace for worsening drought conditions as the dry spell continues. In an address to the nation late Sunday, Pickersgill said the inflows into several large reservoirs were ...