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Venezuela: Chavez is responding to treatment
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuela's government says President Hugo Chavez is conscious and responding to treatment for a respiratory infection at a Cuban hospital.
Chavez, PetroCaribe and the health of the Caribbean
KINGSTON, Jamaica - The prognosis for the recovery from cancer of President Hugo Chavez is uncertain.
Stanford receiver seeks court approval for interim payment to investors
DALLAS, Texas, CMC – The receiver for jailed Texas financier Allen Stanford’s assets has sought approval from a US federal judge for interim payment to swindled investors.
Coalition partner backs Foreign Minister Dookeran for post of President
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Congress of the People (COP) party, the second biggest partner in the four-party coalition People’s Partnership government says it is backing Foreign Affairs Mi
PNM Leads THA Race
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - A poll ahead of next Monday’s Tobago House of Assembly (THA) election is predicting a landslide victory for the incumbent People’s National Movement (PNM).
Manage cement price
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Last Tuesday, Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) announced a rise in price on a standard 42.5 kilogramme bag of cement by 9.5 per cent.
EDITORIAL: Switching to alternative energy
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Things are beginning to look very interesting in the alternative energy sector in Barbados.
Barrow still has a presence
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Evidence of Errol Barrow’s influence continues to permeate Barbados and the Caribbean, Prime Minister Freundel Stuart told a thanksgiving service in memory of the Father of
It is only a matter of time
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - WITH the heightened political activity currently on in Barbados, it seems only a matter of time before Barbadians get to know just when they will be going to the polls to e
PM to give update on IMF discussions
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica government is expected to update the nation later on Monday “on matters related to aspects of the negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), acc
St. Kitts looks to CARICOM for help on high-income status
KINGSTON, Jamaica - Prime Minister Dr. Denzil Douglas says he will look towards his Caribbean Community (CARICOM) colleagues to help St.
Haitian students doing well
ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Students from Haiti who took up hospitality studies here last year under a special scholarship programme say they are making good grades.
Potential job opportunities in construction
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC- St Lucia’s Prime Minister, Dr.
Renewed call for action in Haiti on third anniversary of earthquake
NEW YORK, CMC – As Haiti marks the third anniversary of the devastating January 12, 2010 earthquake, Caribbean American Congresswoman Yvette D.
Haiti quietly marks quake’s 3rd anniversary
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- President Michel Martelly urged Haitians to recall the tens of thousands of people who lost their lives in a devastating earthquake three years ago, marking the disaster'
Cuba called on to free American contractor
GENEVA, Switzerland, CMC – A branch of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has urged Cuba authorities to immediately free jailed US government subcontractor Alan Gross, claiming that
Heat, Flood or Icy Cold, Extreme Weather Rages Worldwide
WORCESTER, England — Britons may remember 2012 as the year the weather spun off its rails in a chaotic concoction of drought, deluge and flooding, but the unpredictability of it all turns out to
A Celebration That Accentuated an Absence
CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chávez is famous for speeches that last for hours, and Thursday should have been a special day for the loquacious socialist to let loose.