ST. JOHN'S, Antigua, CMC - Police said one woman was killed and three others injured in separate incidents as Carnival celebrations ended abruptly here on Tuesday night. They said Rosemarie Lynch became the ninth homicide for the year after her body was found lying in a pool of blood at Perry Ba...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, CMC - The United States Customs and Border Protection (USCBP) agency says it has collaborated with the US Coast Guard (USCG) in apprehending 84 undocumented Haitian migrants after they landed in Desecheo Island, 13 miles west of the mainland of Puerto Rico. The USCBP said a US...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Gleaner - Livestock geneticist and veteran cattle breeder, Dr Karl Wellington has expressed reservations about the use of microchips to address the wide-scale theft of farm animals, as is being mooted by the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) and Ministry of Agriculture and Fisher...

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, Phillip Paulwell has refuted media reports of plans by the Government of Venezuela to increase the interest rate on loans provided under the PetroCaribe Agreement. “We have been in contact with th...

(Jamaica Gleaner) A sixteen-year-old boy, who was on the Kingston Central most wanted list, has been captured. The teen, whose name cannot be released, was wanted for more than 10 murders, several cases of shooting with intent and illegal possession of a firearm, was captured on Text Lane in Kingst...

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Outgoing St. Vincent and the Grenadines Ambassador to the United States, Camillo Gonsalves, is not prepared to say now whether or not he will be a candidate in the 2015 general elections. Gonsalves, the son of Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, returned here las...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Less than a year after he staged a 21-day hunger strike to force the Trinidad and Tobago government to halt the construction of a multi-billion dollar highway, south of here, environmentalist Dr. Wayne Kublalsingh is back staging another protest action outside th...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – A former police officer was electrocuted at the Beausejour Cricket Ground (BCC) as cricket fans watched the Limacol Caribbean Premier League (CPL) match between the St Lucia Zouks and the Antigua Hawksbills Tuesday night. Julian Agard, a former member of the St. Luc...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC - Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony has rejected claims from sections of the business community here that St. Lucia’s membership in the Venezuela led Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) would harm the island’s future socio-economic developmen...

(Jamaica Observer) GraceKennedy is expected to send its first shipment to Nigeria by year-end. The food, financial and money services conglomerate has already established itself in Ghana, and is now in the final stage of lengthy product registration and due-diligence processes in the neighbouring W...