HAVANA, (Reuters) – The number of Cubans leaving their country has increased steadily in recent years, the government reported yesterday, reaching levels not seen since 1994 when tens of thousands took to the sea in makeshift rafts and rickety boats.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Seven Cubans have died and more than 40 have been hospitalized, eight in critical condition, after drinking wood alcohol, or industrial methanol, they thought was rum, the public health ministry said yesterday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A Supreme Court judge has ruled that the police have no power, under the Road Traffic Act, to arbitrarily stop and search motor vehicles, opening the door for a flood of lawsuits.
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has not handed over or left any of her electronic communication devices with the police.
(Trinidad Express) Acting chief executive of Caribbean Airlines (CAL) Robert Corbie has resigned with immediate effect from the cash-strapped national carrier.
(Trinidad Guardian) A Belmont roti-shop owner was one of two people who were shot dead in Port-of-Spain between Thursday evening and yesterday morning.
(Jamaica Observer) ST JAMES, Jamaica — Twenty-three-year-old Jermaine Bowen, lifeguard of Glendevon, St James who was on bail for abduction and rape has been arrested and charged once again, this time for seven counts of rape and illegal possession of a firearm, the police say.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – President Dilma Rousseff’s plan to import foreign doctors to work in rural and poor parts of Brazil, part of a move to quell massive street protests over poor public services, has run into stiff opposition from the powerful medical lobby.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The much-sought-after United States (US) Green Card, the path to American citizenship for thousands of Jamaicans, could become much more difficult to acquire if proposed changes to that country’s immigration laws are implemented.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The much-sought-after United States (US) Green Card, the path to American citizenship for thousands of Jamaicans, could become much more difficult to acquire if proposed changes to that country’s immigration laws are implemented.
(Trinidad Express) Trinidad yesterday announced a visit by CARICOM Heads of State, and the leaders of several other countries including the newly elected president of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government released a recording on Wednesday of a well-known opposition lawmaker apparently criticizing the head of the opposition coalition and accusing him of meeting U.S.
(Jamaica Gleaner) St Lucian Prime Minister Dr Kenny Anthony is proposing major changes to the regional educational system to reduce the growing problem of unemployment among young people.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Head of the Jamaica Theological Seminary, Dr Garnett Roper says the local Christian church needs to accept that the Jamaican society is secular, with competing points of view.
(Trinidad Guardian) Arrested on corruption charges in Panama last month, Dr Arthur Porter once had plans to extend his chain of cancer clinics to T&T. Porter
(Jamaica Gleaner) Broadcaster Wayne Whyte and his co-accused Safari Farr are to be sentenced next month after they yesterday pleaded guilty to gun charges arising from an April 2012 attack on journalist Jody-Ann Gray.
(Barbados Nation) LIAT, with the partial backing of some Caribbean governments, is enhancing and transforming its fleet, with 12 new aircraft over the next two years that will cost investors US$100 million.
(Trinidad Express) Baby Persia Meleigh Lee Foon-Cummings, the last of the sextuplets still warded at the Mount Hope Women’s Hospital, died Tuesday night.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A US federal judge yesterday threw out a 2011 gun conviction against reggae star Buju Banton.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Describing it as the most far-reaching piece of public health policy undertaken in recent times, Health Minister Dr Fenton Ferguson has announced that as of July 15, no smoking will be permitted in public spaces across Jamaica.
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