KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - The United States-based rating agency, Moody’s Investor Services has cut Jamaica's sovereign foreign currency credit rating to Caa3 from B3, citing the recent domestic debt exchange as a distressed event that still leaves the country with a high debt burden. Last m...

NEW YORK, CMC – Secretary of the United States’ Homeland Security Department, Janet Napolitano, has warned passengers at John F. Kennedy International Airport to schedule extra hours for travel as the department faces a 5 percent cut in the US federal budget battle. Napolitano told repo...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former academic and legislator, Professor John Spence has died. He was 83. Relatives said that he died of a heart attack late Wednesday. Spence was a Professor of Botany and also Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture at the St. Augustine campus of the University o...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Prof John Arnott Spence, who died on Wednesday night at 83, will be remembered for his sterling service to T&T and the region as a scientist, academician and spokesman for agriculture. As a UWI lecturer, public servant and independent senator, even in his retirement yea...

THE VALLEY, Anguilla, CMC – Former home affairs minister Walcott Richardson is due to re-appear in court on May 10 on two charges of indecent assault. Richardson, who resigned from the Hubert Hughes administration last month, has been granted EC$110,000 (One EC dollar = US$0.37 cents) bail. ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) president Julian Hunte is unlikely to get the support of the Windward Islands Cricket Board of Control he once headed in elections later this month. In a peculiar set of circumstances for the March 27 poll in Barbados, the Windwards seconded J...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Caribbean only two women heads of government Friday pledged to end violence and discrimination against women in their respective countries as they joined the global community in observing International Women’s Day. Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Mini...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - A senior Jamaican immigration official yesterday conceded, during the Shanique Myrie trial before the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), that there was no significant disparity in the number of Caribbean nationals denied entry to Barbados in the last five years when compared to Ja...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The Jamaica leg of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) trial in the case of Shanique Myrie against the Barbados government is now complete. The lawyers representing Jamaican national, Shanique Myrie, have now closed their case at a hearing of the Caribbean Court of Justice, w...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - AS Shanique Myrie’s case against the Barbados Government continued in the Caribbean Court of Justice at the Jamaica Conference Centre in Kingston yesterday morning, lead attorney for the Barbados Government, Roger Forde, received a sharp reprimand from head judge, Sir De...