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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

By Caribbean News Now contributor CASTRIES, Saint Lucia -- According to the Caribbean Association of Banks (CAB), banks and other financial institutions across the Caribbean have been impacted by a…

Mr Chavez had been seriously ill with cancer for more than a year, undergoing several operations in Cuba, and had not been seen in public for several months. Vice-President Nicolas Maduro made the…

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada -- Newly elected prime minister of Grenada, Dr Keith Mitchell, has pledged his commitment to co-host the leadership summit for the Caribbean Challenge Initiative (CCI) in the…