WASHINGTON, CMC – The United States has changed its mind in allowing the daughter of Cuban President Raúl Castro to attend a gay rights forum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, reversing a previous rejection. Sexologist Mariela Castro, the director of Cuba’s National Center for Sex Ed...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea’s continuing development of nuclear technology and long-range ballistic missiles will move it closer to its stated goal of being able to hit the United States with an atomic weapon, a new Pentagon report to Congress said yesterday. The report, the first versi...

WASHINGTON, USA — Fewer Americans are losing their jobs. Employers are struggling to squeeze more work from their staffs. The US is producing so much oil that imports are plunging, narrowing the trade deficit. A string of data Thursday raised hopes for stronger hiring and US growth in coming m...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Twenty of the world’s most troubled countries have made progress in efforts that range from reducing poverty to improving the education of girls and cutting down on the deaths of women in childbirth, the World Bank said yesterday. The improvement is a big shift fro...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Observer - THE Canadian High Commission has apologised to the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) for a botched naval exercise in March, which saw live 50-calibre rounds being fired in Jamaican coastal waters by two of that country's naval vessels and the interference with a boat in w...

CARACAS (Reuters) – Opposition and government supporters flooded Venezuelan streets in rival May Day marches yesterday as a continuing dispute over the results of last month’s presidential vote kept political tensions high in the OPEC nation. On Tuesday, opposition deputies were beaten i...

It is to be hoped that the visit last week to Canada of Kamla Persad-Bissessar, the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, who in July will become the chair of Caricom, an association of 15 Caribbean nation-states, will help move forward Canada’s free-trade negotiations with Caricom. Canada&rs...

WASHINGTON, CMC - A new report released here says remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) showed a slight increase in 2012 compared to the previous year. The report, titled “Remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean in 2012: Differing Behavior among Sub-regions,” was r...

BARCELONA, Spain, CMC - Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries Monday appealed for continued international financial assistance to deal with the HIV-AIDS epidemic. In an addressing commemorating the 10th anniversary of the XIV AIDS Conference here, St. Kitts-Nevis Prime Minister Dr. Denzil Douglas...

WASHINGTON, CMC - Caribbean nationals who have been deported from the United States are returning illegally to the country, according to a report released by an immigration think tank. Immigration Policy Center (IPC) said that new figures show that the number of United States federal prosecution ca...