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OECS assembly gets down to business
ST JOHN’S, Antigua -- Sub-regional parliamentarians assigned to the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Assembly were due to meet in a seminar on Monday to finalise rules and procedures of…
Barbados Policeman denies Myrie was subject to…
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Friday March 22, 2013 - A police officer accused of conducting a cavity search on Jamaican Shanique Myrie vehemently denied the allegation as she took the stand before the…
Transfer of BAICO insurance business to Sagicor…
By Caribbean News Now contributor BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- Following the receipt of approvals from all nine insurance regulators and courts within the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) and The…
St Lucia government services crippled by civil…
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Tuesday March 19, 2013 – Civil servants stayed away from their jobs on Monday disrupting several government services and ignoring appeals from Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony and…
British couple on Caribbean cruise shot by armed…
A BRITISH woman and man on a Caribbean cruise were recovering in hospital today after being shot by an armed robber on Barbados. Horrified tourists rushed to the unidentified pair's aid after hearing…
St Lucia police arrest Dominica nationals in major…
CASTRIES, St Lucia, Monday March 18, 2013 – Two Dominican nationals are due to appear in court later this week after police said they had seized more than 1, 400 pounds of marijuana on a pirogue south…
Cell phone argument results in death of Trinidad…
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, Monday March 18, 2013 – A 16-year-old secondary school student was stabbed to death during an argument over a Blackberry cellular phone, his relatives said. Relatives told the…
China to provide $2 billion for Caribbean…
WASHINGTON, USA -- The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the People's Bank of China (PBC) have approved the China Co-financing Fund for Latin America and the Caribbean to support public and…
Turks and Caicos by-election to go ahead
By Caribbean News Now contributor GRAND TURK, Turks and Caicos Islands -- Several recently filed election challenges got underway in the Supreme Court in the Turks and Caicos Islands on Thursday and,…
War of words between Britain and Turks and Caicos…
By Caribbean News Now contributor PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands -- In a statement to the House of Assembly in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) on Thursday, Premier Rufus Ewing accused…
Britain slams Turks and Caicos premier’s…
By Caribbean News Now contributor LONDON, England -- In a strongly worded letter on Tuesday, Britain’s Foreign Secretary William Hague described Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) Premier Dr Rufus Ewing’s…
Court halts Antigua-Barbuda electoral boundary…
By Caribbean News Now contributor ST JOHN’S, Antigua -- On Monday morning, a high court judge granted an injunction preventing the Constituencies Boundaries Commission in Antigua and Barbuda from…
Grenada likely to default on some government bonds
ST GEORGE ‘S, Grenada -- The government of Grenada said on Friday that circumstances have forced it to undertake a comprehensive and collaborative restructuring of its public debt, including its…
Crucial by-election in Turks and Caicos turns into…
By Caribbean News Now contributor PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands -- After what seemed to be an orderly start to a crucial by-election in the Turks and Caicos Islands scheduled for March 22,…
Former Grenada PM called on to resign as party…
ST GEORGE ‘S, Grenada -- A leading Grenada publication has called for the resignation of former prime minister Tillman Thomas as leader of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). In the latest edition…