A United Nations-backed census has been launched in the Dominican Republic to improve to the lives of hundreds of refugees and asylum-seekers.

According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- Roughly 2,000 firearms were melted down in a blazing furnace Tuesday as part of an effort designed to combat gun trafficking and corruption in Jamaica while reducing violent...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A small band of protesters in Haiti has called on President Michel Martelly to prove he's eligible for office.The about 100 people in Tuesday's...

Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Leader Perry Christie said in an interview broadcast yesterday that he is satisfied that former ministers Shane Gibson and Leslie Miller are suitable to run in the...

It's been a year since a jury convicted Andre Birbal of having sex with two male students from the Eight Mile Rock High School, but his appeal is still pending. Birbal, who is appealing his...

The government granted citizenship to nearly 2,600 people in the four-and-a-half years it has been in power, Deputy Prime Minister Brent Symonette revealed yesterday. According to information...

Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) candidate for Central and South Eleuthera Damian Gomez alleged yesterday that some of his supporters on the island were denied the opportunity to register to vote. ...

There were 636 reported cases of child abuse in The Bahamas last year, according to Minister of State for Social Development Loretta Butler-Turner. Butler-Turner made that revelation in the House of...

The Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) and the Democratic National Alliance (DNA) yesterday expressed concerns over the security of overseas voting and said they fear the process could be open to...

DNA Leader Branville McCartney (inset) said that the newly constructed stadium seemed to be 'less of a gift and more of a financial albatross.' TNG file...

Police have identified the victim of a hit and run accident that occurred on East Bay Street on Sunday morning, leaving a middle-aged man dead. According to police, the victim, who was a resident of...

Officials of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) claimed yesterday that management at Sandals Royal Bahamian Resort are pressuring union members to drop the bargaining agent, but hotel officials strongly...

Police reported yesterday that they shut down a school because it was allegedly operating without a proper license. A woman was taken in to custody for questioning by police in connection with the...

The Court of Appeal yesterday refused bail applications for two men who sought release on medical grounds. Lawyers for Anthony Armbrister, who is fighting penile cancer, and Andrew Davis, who had a...

The trial of three men accused of last year's robbery of the Rolex Boutique at the John Bull flagship store on Bay Street begins this afternoon before Justice Indra Charles. Prosecutors allege...

One of the catchiest Bahamian songs on the airwaves this year thus far has also been a song celebrating the value of community service. Kirkland 'KB' Bodie has once again brought many...

Santo Domingo, Feb 7 (Prensa Latina) A network of drug traffickers who sent drugs to Puerto Rico, was dismantled in the east of the Dominican Republic. The National Drug Control Office (DNCD)...

February 7, 2012 The cholera outbreak in Haiti is currently the worst ongoing episode in the world. Over the past 15 months, it has sickened more than half a million people and killed roughly...

The sister of former Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Patrick Manning says her hospitalized brother is recovering well from a stroke suffered earlier this...

HAVANA, Feb 7, 2012 (IPS) - More than a decade ago, solar electricity changed the lives of several mountain communities in Cuba. Now this and other renewable power sources are emerging as the best...

HAVANA — When it started, American teenagers were doing "The Twist." The United States had yet to put a man into orbit around the Earth. And a first-class U.S. postage stamp cost 4...

Washington's 50-year-old economic embargo of Cuba, which the island's leaders refer to as a "blockade," has its supporters and detractors. Here's what some people have said...

Crown Princess cruise is cut short due to illness Ship will return to port two days early for two-day sanitation program Passengers will receive refunds and future cruise...

Handguns seized by police sit piled together on the floor of the police armory in Kingston, Jamaica, Tuesday Feb. 7, 2012. Roughly 2,000 seized guns were zip-tied into bundles, transported to a local...

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — Trinidad's former Prime Minister Patrick Manning has been airlifted to Walter Reed Medical Center in the United States for treatment following a stroke....

Cuba n people without ever dislodging the Fidel Castro or his brother Raul. In announcing the ban, President John F. Kennedy said it would undermine an alliance betwen Cuba and "the subversive...

Construction of a mixed-use project on Centre Street in Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood that will create 103 apartments as well as retail and commercial space got a boost with $46.8 million...

A small band of protesters called Tuesday for Haitian President Michel Martelly to prove he's eligible for office as they destroyed posters that bore images of the leader. The 100 or so...

Trinidad's former Prime Minister Patrick Manning has been airlifted to Walter Reed Medical Center in the United States for treatment following a stroke. Spokeswoman Wendy Lewis said Tuesday...

British Airways Holidays has a week's break at the Dover Beach Hotel in Barbados (room only), a short drive from Bridgetown. The deal includes flights from Gatwick on 3 Sept for 674pp....