By Stabroek staff | Monday, October 26, 2009 | 0 Comments
(Trinidad Express) A 15-year-old schoolboy was left to die on a street near the Manny Ramjohn Stadium in Marabella Friday night after being chased, beaten …
By Stabroek staff | Monday, October 26, 2009 | 0 Comments
(Jamaica Observer) Caribbean Cement Company has said that, effective today, it will begin offering discounts on its Carib Cement Plus product by $40 per 45.5 …
By Stabroek staff | Monday, October 26, 2009 | 0 Comments
(Trinidad Express) An archaeological team has found more evidence on a site at St John’s Road, South Oropouche, that people lived there 7,000 years ago.
The …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, October 24, 2009 | 1 Comment
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Renewed talks to resolve Honduras’ deep political crisis collapsed yesterday over whether leftist President Manuel Zelaya could return to power after he …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, October 24, 2009 | 0 Comments
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s constitutional court likely will not rule until next year on President Alvaro Uribe’s re-election bid, complicating the time frame for the …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, October 24, 2009 | 2 Comments
(Barbados Nation) – Government is being urged to close a legal loophole to prevent non-nationals from fraudulently gaining Barbadian citizenship through marriages of convenience.
The Immigration …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, October 24, 2009 | 0 Comments
Puerto Rico blast
An explosion early Friday morning at a gasoline facility in Puerto Rico rocked a neighbourhood outside Puerto Rico’s capital, San Juan, causing at …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, October 23, 2009 | 0 Comments
(Trinidad Express) – Describing his Member of Parliament for Diego Martin West Dr Keith Rowley as “a raging bull” when he is opposed, Prime Minister …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, October 23, 2009 | 1 Comment
CARACAS (Reuters) – Leftist President Hugo Chavez called on Venezuelans on Wednesday to stop singing in the shower and to wash in three minutes because …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, October 23, 2009 | 5 Comments
(Trinidad Express) – The country’s murder toll increased by two on Wednesday afternoon, after two Laventille men were gunned down in Diego Martin.
Dead are Wendell …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, October 23, 2009 | 2 Comments
(Barbados Nation) – Commissioner of Police Darwin Dottin has ordered a full-scale internal investigation into the theft of two police Glock guns.
His comments followed the …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, October 23, 2009 | 0 Comments
Inquiry set to resume
Former Nevis Premier Vance Amory has lost his case challenging the legality of the Commission of Inquiry set up to look into …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, October 23, 2009 | 0 Comments
GENEVA (Reuters) – India and Brazil will take the European Union to court at the World Trade Organisation, diplomats said yesterday, raising the stakes in …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, October 22, 2009 | 0 Comments
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Police killed seven suspected drug traffickers in Rio de Janeiro yesterday, bringing to 33 the total number of deaths since …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, October 22, 2009 | 3 Comments
MIAMI (Reuters) – Cocaine kingpin Diego Montoya, the one-time head of Colombia’s Norte del Valle cartel, apologized in a US court to the victims of …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, October 22, 2009 | 0 Comments
(Jamaica Observer) – Gunmen on Tuesday morning torched a house in the community of Long Wall in Stony Hill, St Andrew then shot dead a …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, October 21, 2009 | 3 Comments
…while escorted by cops
(Trinidad Express) Peter Garcia was in handcuffs, police officers at his side, on the compound of a court, with dozens of officers …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, October 21, 2009 | 4 Comments
(Jamaica Observer) Scores of Jamaicans are believed to be among the 1.7 million illegal immigrants in the United States who have opted to return home …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, October 20, 2009 | 1 Comment
KINSHASA (Reuters) – The diamond industry’s Kimberley Process is failing due to a lack of accountability and follow-up, paving the way for an illegal trade …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, October 20, 2009 | 0 Comments
Court rules against new boundaries
A proclamation of new constituency boundaries in St Kitts and Nevis was yesterday ruled invalid by the courts.
The proposed changes had …