SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, CMC -Officials in the Dominican Republic have denied reports of an outbreak of avian flu adding that the World Health Organisation declared the country free of bird flu three years ago. In a statement on Friday, the Dominican Ambassador to Haiti, Ruben Silie said H...

ST.JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC - Sections of the northeastern Caribbean were rocked by a 4.8-magnitude earthquake on Saturday evening. The United States Geological Survey confirmed that the tremor was felt as far north as St Maarten, as far south as Guadeloupe and across St Eustatius and St Kitts an...

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – A 3.8 magnitude earthquake shook Antigua around 1:11 am yesterday and frightening many residents, including one from Buckleys who said, “it felt as if the house was being ripped from its foundation. It was very scary.” Also speaking about the tremor on ea...

Qatar has finalised the details of a development called ‘Qatar City’ being funded near Port-au-Prince as part of an aid pledge made by the Gulf state in the wake of Haiti’s devastating 2010 earthquake. The project is a being jointly funded with $5m from Qatar and $4m from the US A...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - FROM the Government of China's point of view, the visit of President Xi Jinping to Trinidad to meet nine Caribbean Heads of Government was a great success. Each of the nine leaders made statements after individual short meetings with President Xi, praising China for the loan...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - The Chinese people have always had the dream of the Great Harmony of all and longed for a beautiful society with noble virtue, material plenty, equality and equity. Recently, Chinese President Xi Jinping promoted the idea of a Chinese dream, which would spur the rejuvenation of t...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - THE RECENT notices of pending layoffs in the private sector will undoubtedly invite an aura of scepticism and concern among our working class population. The question on the lips of many of these workers will reside in the wonder “whose turn is next?” Although rev...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -ACADEMICS in the region are today mourning the passing of Prof Emeritus Nazeer A Ahmad, who was one of the last associates of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture (AICTA). Ahmad was Prof Emeritus of the Department of Food Production in the Faculty of Food and Agricu...

JOHANNESBURG: South Africa prayed for Nelson Mandela yesterday as the revered peace icon faced a third night in hospital, with calls for the family and the nation to "let him go". Government officials had given no update on Mandela's health since announcing that the 94-year-old was admitted earl...

WASHINGTON, CMC – After visiting the controversial Guantánamo detention center in Cuba, a top United States official and two legislators have called for its immediate closure. “We continue to believe that it is in our national interest to end detention at Guantánamo, with ...