NEW YORK, CMC - New York police say they are searching for armed robbers who are targeting Caribbean stores. The New York Police Department (NYPD) said so far this month, the robbers held up at least four Caribbean stores in Brooklyn and Queens. The NYPD said on each occasion, the gunmen escaped w...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Civil servants stayed away from their jobs on Monday disrupting several government services and ignoring appeals from Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony and the main private sector organisation to end their industrial dispute over increased salaries. The workers, repr...

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Dominica authorities say they intend to take a harder line, including legal action, against people who fail to pay taxes. Comptroller of Income Tax Irwin Williams, speaking at the launch of the 12th annual Tax Awareness Week, said that the Inland Revenue Division (IRD)...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – The Canadian government says it is assisting Grenada overcome the challenges facing the nutmeg industry. It said together with the St. George University, it has adopted a two phase approach to the improving the production of nutmeg, a process that has seen v...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - THE OPPOSITION PROMISED an economic stimulus package but it is the re-elected Freundel Stuart administration that is about to deliver one. Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler revealed yesterday in the House of Assembly during the first day of debate on the 2013-2014 Estimates o...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Barbados’ food import bill has reached unsustainable levels for a small island developing state. This was pointed out by the Permanent Secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Tourism and International Transport, Shelley Carrington, while addressing the opening of the Ministri...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Dookeran has met with his Ecuadorean counterpart, Ricardo Patino, as diplomatic efforts increase to encourage T&T’s support for contentious proposals to reform the Inter-American human rights system. Yesterday’s meeting in P...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - Former High Court judge, Anthony Carmona, 60, was sworn in as Trinidad and Tobago’s fifth head of state on Monday at a public ceremony held at the Hasley Crawford Stadium, on the outskirts of the capital. In a ceremony carried live on radio and television, Carmo...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Cameras installed at the Grantley Adams International Airport have been functioning since they were put in place as part of the security arrangements for the 2007 International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) was told on Monday....

The aid group Doctors Without Borders said last Tuesday that the cholera crisis in Haiti was getting worse, for the most unnecessary and appalling of reasons: a lack of money and basic medical supplies. The disease has killed 8,000 people and sickened 649,000 since October 2010. International effor...