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NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – A 64-year-old United States citizen is recuperating in hospital after he was bitten on the left hand by a Nurse shark, the police said in a statement on Tuesday. The statement said that the man, from Fort ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – There has been a “significant” increase in intra-regional trade in 2011, according to the Guyana-based Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. It said that intra-regional trade in CARICOM has been positive with significant growth in the early period of the ...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Former Prime Minister, Stephenson King, was swept out of the leadership of the main opposition United Workers Party (UWP) after his former tourism minister, Allen Chastanet, scored a convincing victory in Sunday’s poll. King, who ...

By Peter Richards Trinidad Correspondent PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former National Security Minister, Austin “Jack” Warner, was returned to Parliament, on Monday night, after his convincing victory in the Chaguanas West by-election, which he had previously represented following ...

By Peter Richards Caribbean Correspondent PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (IPS) – As Caribbean countries prepare to observe Emancipation Day on Aug. 1, they are also caught up in an ongoing debate over reparations for slavery. St. Vincent and the Grenadines ...

By Cydney Hargis US Correspondent WASHINGTON, D.C. (IPS) – In the aftermath of the recent acquittal of 31-year-old Florida native, George Zimmerman, the state’s so-called Stand Your Ground law has come under national scrutiny, as have dozens of other states ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – A campaign by local human rights watchdog, Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ), highlighting the plight of children, has not gone down well with the Minister of Youth, Lisa Hanna who has described an online petition by the ...

By Valeria Vilardo Haiti Correspondent PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (IPS) – More than two years ago, Haiti’s parliament approved a landmark amendment to the country’s 1987 constitution to ensure that women fill at least 30 percent of elected and appointed positions at the national level. ...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – The Grenada government has launched the Farm Labour Subsidy Program aimed at encouraging people to get back into redeveloping the nutmeg and cocoa industries. “We still have a significant amount of acreage that is still ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Chief Justice, Ivor Archie, Friday, led the judiciary in paying tribute to Appeal Court judge, Justice Wendell Kangaloo, who died at a private medical facility, more than a year after being involved in a ...