BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Aug 1, CMC – Opposition legislators say they are concerned at the continued silence of Caribbean leaders to the ongoing political situation in St. Kitts-Nevis and are warning of possible violence in the future. Leader of the main opposition People’s Action Movement...

MIAMI, CMC – A 68-year-old American has been sentenced to 165 years in jail, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, after he was found guilty of child sex tourism offences in Haiti. Acting United States Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman, said Matthew Andrew Carter, 68, also know...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - Trinidad and Tobago’s proven natural gas reserves have contracted by one per cent last year, but Energy Minister Kevin Ramnarine said the figures show the authorities are “arresting” the decline in recent years. According to the figures released by t...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Austin “Jack” Warner, the former president of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) says he is taking legal action against prominent Barbadian jurist, Sir David Simmons over the contents of a report...

(Trinidad Express) In a complete departure from practice, President Anthony Carmona has changed four of his senators in mid-term, a move that is unpre¬cedented in Trinidad and Tobago’s post-Republican history. Traditionally, presidents have changed independent senators at the end of the li...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Stabroek News - Jack Warner may have convincingly won the Chaguanas West by-election in Trinidad on Monday but there are arguably more losers than winners after this particularly nasty and game-changing political battle. Obviously, the United National Congress (UNC) candidate, Kh...

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, Guardian - Parliamentarians are not immune from extradition. That was the comment given to the Miami Herald newspaper by Peter Carr, a spokesman for the United States Department of Justice, following former national security minister Jack Warner’s successful re-electio...

(Trinidad Express) The re-election of Jack Warner as the Member of Parliament for Chaguanas West will do “untold damage” to this country’s international image, Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley warned yesterday. On Monday, Warner, interim leader of the Independent Liberal Party (IL...

(Trinidad Express) The country’s largest insurance company is about to become potentially one of the State’s most lucrative and far-reaching assets. Cabinet has approved the transfer of about $8 billion worth of insurance giant’s CLICO’s pro¬fitable business to a new comp...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The United States and Trinidad and Tobago have signed a treaty that will effectively afford “left-behind parents” the full remedies of the Hague Convention to resolve child abduction cases. The Hague Abduction Convention treaty goes into effect from T...