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Grenada and BVI to co-host leadership summit on…
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…
Consultation to formulate small-scale fisheries…
GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Across the Caribbean, the fisheries sector employs over 182,000 persons, directly or indirectly. Whereas commercial fisheries play a key role in helping to secure foreign…
Two Resigned Two to be Sacked
Antigua St. John's - Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer has addressed the issue of the Senate vote, in which 4 senators voted against the controversial Citizenship by Investment (CIP) Bill. The Prime…
DLP retains government in Barbados general…
Peter Richards BRIDGETOWN, Friday Barbados, February 22, 2013 - Barbadian voters kept with tradition and provided the incumbent party with a second consecutive term in power following a nerve jangling…
Barbados Elections Results – Ruling Party…
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Feb 22, CMC - Barbadian voters kept with tradition and provided the incumbent party with a second consecutive term in power following a nerve jangling general elections here on…
Opposition wins Grenada election
ST GEORGE'S, Grenada (CMC) — The main Opposition New National Party (NNP) won yesterday's general election. Preliminary results, at press time last night, show that the NNP, headed by former Prime…
Grenadians go to the polls
By Caribbean News Now contributor ST GEORGE’S, Grenada -- Voters in Grenada go to the polls on Tuesday in a general election that is widely expected to be won by the opposition New National Party…
Venezuela publishes first photos of Chavez after…
HAVANA, Cuba (ACN) -- The Venezuelan government has published the first photos of President Hugo Chavez after the head of state underwent cancer surgery in Havana last December. Venezuelan science,…
CTO aviation task force recommends single visa…
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) Aviation Task Force -- a highly focused committee established to facilitate air transportation into and throughout the Caribbean and to…
Duvalier to appear in court
Two years ago, to the surprise of many, Duvalier returned to his impoverished homeland after 25 years in exile in France. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Thursday February 7, 2013 – Former Haitian dictator…
OAS and Grenada sign agreement for electoral…
WASHINGTON, USA -- The secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, and the permanent representative of Grenada to the hemispheric body, Gillian Bristol, on…