By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, January 27, 2010 | 0 Comments
(Barbados Nation) A nine-point strategy aimed at bolstering Barbados’ economy and returning real gross domestic product (GDP) growth to the annual average rate of 3.0 …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, January 27, 2010 | 0 Comments
(Trinidad Express) Siparia MP Kamla Persad-Bissessar won hands down at the UNC internal elections on Sunday, beating fellow contenders, Basdeo Panday and Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj, …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, January 27, 2010 | 0 Comments
(Trinidad Express) A Caribbean Airlines pilot was shot dead after confronting bandits at his Glencoe home on Monday afternoon.
Riaz Baksh was 54 and lived at …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, January 26, 2010 | 0 Comments
(Trinidad Express) – Basdeo Panday, who has condemned to the political cemetery so many who dared to do battle with him in the past, failed …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, January 26, 2010 | 0 Comments
Polls open
Voters in St Kitts and Nevis are electing a government to run the country for the next five years.
Observers said the election campaign was …
By Stabroek staff | Monday, January 25, 2010 | 0 Comments
By CCN senior journalist Andy Johnson
(Trinidad Express) CCN senior journalist Andy Johnson spent five days last week in Haiti, embedded with a contingent of the …
By Stabroek staff | Sunday, January 24, 2010 | 3 Comments
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican-born Muslim cleric, Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal, was quizzed by Special Branch investigators for nearly an hour when he returned to the island on …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, January 23, 2010 | 0 Comments
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – When U.S. President Barack Obama launched a fight with Wall Street by announcing a new plan to limit banks’ size, the man …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, January 23, 2010 | 0 Comments
(Jamaica Gleaner) – After being bombarded with criticisms about its tardiness in signing an extradition warrant for Tivoli Gardens’ strongman, Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, the government …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, January 23, 2010 | 3 Comments
Jamaica awaits cleric
Jamaica is preparing for the arrival of Abdullah al-Faisal, a radical muslim cleric that Kenya is reported to have deported.
Shiekh alFasial was previously …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, January 22, 2010 | 1 Comment
(Jamaica Gleaner) – With increasing preparations under way for an expected wave of people from the earthquake-wrecked Haiti, the Jamaican Government is looking to international …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, January 22, 2010 | 1 Comment
(Trinidad Express) – Only six months ago Jerrold Maule became a member of the Trinidad and Tobago Fire Service.
He strived for excellence in whatever he …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, January 22, 2010 | 0 Comments
(Trinidad Express) – Gennike Mayers, a Trinidad and Tobago national working with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), says the sites in earthquake-ravaged …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, January 21, 2010 | 0 Comments
SINGAPORE/OSLO, (Reuters) – Hopes for stronger world action in 2010 to curb climate change have dimmed after the U.S. Democrats lost a key Senate seat …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, January 20, 2010 | 1 Comment
(Trinidad Express) Haiti will need an estimated US$2 billion a year for its rehabilitation and restoration in the aftermath of the devastating 7.0 earthquake that …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, January 19, 2010 | 0 Comments
(Nassau Guardian) – Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham said on Sunday he is disappointed over the outrage expressed by some Bahamians following his announcement that more …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, January 19, 2010 | 0 Comments
(Trinidad Express) – Miguel Modeste, a 24-year-old mason, was forced to lie face down on his bed before he was shot once in the head, …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, January 19, 2010 | 0 Comments
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez on Sunday accused the United States of using the earthquake in Haiti as a pretext to occupy the …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, January 19, 2010 | 0 Comments
Kenya orders probe
The Prime Minister of Kenya has ordered an investigation into Friday’s demonstrations called to protest the arrest of controversial Jamaican Muslim cleric Sheikh …
By Stabroek staff | Monday, January 18, 2010 | 1 Comment
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Conservative billionaire Sebastian Pinera won Chile’s presidential election yesterday, ending two decades of centre-left rule in Latin America’s most stable economy and …