A fire did serious damage on Friday to a Treasury Department building on Nevis, ruining records and computer services that an official on the Caribbean island said were vital to government operations, the Associated Press reported.
(Trinidad Express) The United States’ Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is in this country investigating the $.6 billion cocaine bust in Norfolk, Virginia, USA, which originated from Trinidad and Tobago, the Sunday Express has learnt.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A judge with the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has said there is no mechanism to enforce the judgement following the recent ruling in the case involving the Jamaican national Shanique Myrie.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A Jamaica-born ex-pastor has been convicted in the United States of raping two teenage girls, one of whom attended his church.
(Barbados Nation) The importation of wigs and weaves into Barbados is a Bds$2 million business.
(Trinidad Express) Three co-workers were killed in a crash along the M2 Ring Road, Debe today.
(Trinidad Express) Guyanese nationals have featured prominently as both “overstayers and undocumented migrant workers” in this country, according to statistics from the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service’s Crime and Problem Analysis Branch (CAPA), a research report on invisible immigrants has stated.
(Trinidad Express) An estimated U.S $100 million worth in cocaine concealed in fruit juice cans originating in Trinidad and Tobago was seized by United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Officers in Virginia, United States in December.
(Trinidad Express) THE hosting of the 2014 Lotto Plus Chutney Soca Monarch competition is in jeopardy as Government has failed to deliver on its financial commitments.
(Jamaica Observer) Local conglomerate GraceKennedy is to build a state-of-the-art commercial centre in downtown Kingston which will accommodate offices, a gym and retail enterprises.
(Trinidad Express) An estimated U.S $100 million worth in cocaine concealed in fruit juice cans originating in Trinidad and Tobago was seized by United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Officers in Virginia, United States in December.
(Barbados Nation) VETERAN TRADE UNIONIST Sir Roy Trotman last night warned Barbadians they should be prepared for the possibility that some of the 3 500 public servants who are about to lose their jobs will end up in prison and the Psychatric Hospital and some of their children on welfare.
(Trinidad Express) Eminent Queen’s Counsel, former judge of the International Criminal Court and former Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago Karl Hudson-Phillips, has died.
(Barbados Nation) United States law enforcement authorities are seeking the public’s assistance in locating a fugitive wanted for allegedly killing his sister and an ex-girlfriend in 2002.
(Trinidad Express) THE hosting of the 2014 Lotto Plus Chutney Soca Monarch competition is in jeopardy as Government has failed to deliver on its financial commitments.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro named an army general as the new finance minister in a reshuffle of his economic team yesterday and said there would be no currency devaluation this year despite a soaring black market for dollars.
KINGSTON, January (JIS) — Chinese outfit Pan-Caribbean Limited, operators of the Monymusk and Frome sugar factories, has announced plans to pump between US$180 million and US$200 million into enhancing the plants, and upgrading equipment at the two facilities.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil surprised economists by maintaining an aggressive pace of interest rate hikes yesterday to head off a surge in inflation, even as Latin America’s largest economy struggles to gain momentum.
(Trinidad Express) The people of this country are lazy, making themselves sick and have created a crisis where the hospitals are packed to capacity, says Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan.
(Barbados Nation) The Barbadian economy will grow by less than one per cent this year, according to Central Bank figures released less than an hour ago, but after that, the bank predicts economic growth will slowly take off.
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