PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - When the Eleventh Evidence Hearing of the Commission of Enquiry into the collapse of CL Financial and the Hindu Credit Union (HCU) begins tomorrow morning at the Winsure Building, Richmond Street, Port-of-Spain, two major players in Clico and the State’s 2009 $20 bill...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Former prime minister Patrick Manning stood for more than an hour yesterday as members of his San Fernando East Constituency Office held a special thanksgiving ceremony for him. Manning, who spent Thursday night at the San Fernando General Hospital after suffering another s...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - The Government has responded to concerns surrounding the controversial advertisement by German appliance company Saturn, which includes images showing the improper handling of the Jamaican flag. A statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday said the commercial...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - IT is unbelievable that former Guyana and West Indies cricket captain Clive Lloyd has failed to get a seconder as a nominee for the presidency of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). One would have thought that Lloyd who led the West Indies cricket team for over a decade as the...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington has described as “shameless, heartless and senseless” the murder of retired deputy superintendent of police, Denzil Boyd, 63, who was shot and killed at his home in the Corporate Area on Sunday. The murder of the well-k...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has reiterated the Jamaica Government’s position on shifting Jamaica further away from its neo-colonial state by putting plans in place to remove the Queen as Jamaica’s head of state. In an exclusive interview with the Jamaica Obse...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - THE 'wipeout' of Prime Minister Tillman Thomas's first-term National Democratic Congress (NDC) Administration at Tuesday's general election in Grenada was a stunning political development that has left governance in that CARICOM state where it was some 16 years ag...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Last month it was Tobago. Last week it was the whitewash defeat of the Tillman Thomas government in Grenada, then the narrow electoral victory of the government in Barbados. That ferment of the Caribbean people may be enough for observers to sight a trend—one that sho...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - SIR DENNIS Byron, president of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), is to deliver a public lecture at the University of the West Indies, Mona campus, tomorrow. Sir Dennis' lecture is the second in the Caribbean Institute of Media and Communication (CARIMAC) Distinguished Lec...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The judgment in a case now proceeding through the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) could prove to be a landmark in the movement of West Indians through each other's countries. Shanique Myrie, a Jamaican, alleges that on March 14, 2011 (then 22 years old), she was origin...