London, January 8 : Amy Winehouse reportedly took to the piano to serenade her alleged new man in a Caribbean hotel...

World history is filled with dramatic, often heartbreaking and occasionally redemptive stories of great marches. But this week, we should be seriously noting another march, one of the most powerful...

Rasbert Turner, Star Writer Spanish Town Thirty young men from the March Pen and Corlettes roads communities of St Catherine, are being trained by the Ministry of National Security as lifeguards...

A couple caught attempting to smuggle more than 2.3 kilograms (5lb) of ganja out of the island in the handles of their suitcases was remanded in custody when they appeared before the Montego Bay...

necessary paperwork to be on the island, they wound up in a Havana jail where they spent Christmas amid squalid conditions. "I was probably in more danger there than any place I've ever...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian coffee growers are brewing up a lawsuit over a U.S. comic strip joking that violence is so rampant there, maybe "there's a little bit of Juan Valdez in every...

Cuba .The left side of their boat was cracked and taking on water. Vassallo and Smith spotted a nearby lighthouse and stepped onto the shell-strewn shore to seek help. But it was near midnight and...

SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) — A man suspected of piloting a motorboat that struck and killed a New York winery owner as he swam off Brazil's coast was briefly detained on Sunday, police said. ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Jamaica is working with a real estate company to build affordable homes for tourism workers amid a global economic slump. The island's housing minister says the...

Advocates and congressional leaders are renewing their effort to have the government grant temporary protected status for thousands of undocumented Haitian immigrants. Moments after being sworn in...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The death toll from a landslide in northern Guatemala has risen to 37 after villagers discovered two more bodies. Rescue crew chief Sergio Cabanas said Wednesday that...

They produce a third of the world's supply of nutmeg, but the Spice Islanders of Grenada have rarely been considered prodigious exporters of the beautiful game. However, all of that may well be...

Mexico City - The United States has released an additional $99 million as part of an aid package to support Mexico's police and soldiers in their fight against drug cartels. U.S. Ambassador Tony...

Twenty-five-year-old Willard Whittle, otherwise called 'Jubby,' of Nugent Street, Spanish Town, and Kitson Town, both in St Catherine, was beaten to death by a mob after he was accused of stealing...

A man accused of using an eight-year-old child to gain entry to a shop and rob it was granted bail when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on...

A 78-year-old resident of the St Catherine Infirmary, who has been charged with the murder of a colleague, was granted $60,000 bail in his own surety when he appeared in the Spanish Town Resident...

Though the process of becoming a part of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is fairly simple, it seems there are some people who prefer to pretend.Just a month after two men were arrested and...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — President Evo Morales says Bolivia will launch a state newspaper soon and also plans to create a television station with Venezuelan and Iranian backing. The leftist...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The country that gave the world chewing gum is getting gummed up: The average square yard (meter) of Mexico City sidewalk has 70 blobs of discarded chew. Now Mexico is...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico's new governor was sworn in Friday, inheriting an island government that is battling a recession, a soaring murder rate and a deficit of more than $1...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chilean inflation dipped to 7.1 percent last year as the slowing world economy brought the country's biggest one-month price decline in 42 years in December, the...

So villagers of Siparia, who did not attend the funeral service for fallen boxing hero Jizelle Salandy at the St Benedict's Roman Catholic Church, La Romaine, yesterday, converged on the hearse as it...

LA HABANA -- Bajo un pertinaz aguacero, el presidente ecuatoriano Rafael Correa arribó a Cuba para iniciar una visita oficial en la cual se reunirá con su colega Raúl Castro,...

www.pricesmart.com ) today announced its results of operations for the first quarter of fiscal year 2009 which ended on November 30, 2008. For the first quarter of fiscal year 2009, net warehouse...

PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands: At 11 pm on Wednesday night, Premier Michael Misick announced on TCI New Media, the government sponsored television station, that after “careful...

Commenting on the chances of Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer's governing United Progressive Party bagging a second term in the yet to be announced election, the Barbadian-based Wickham, a recognised...

A rich experience, or just a bunch of chemicals? It is said that love is a drug. But is it just a drug? That is the contention of Larry Young, a professor of neuroscience at Emory University in...

Robert Bailey, Gleaner WriterDonovan Duckie, head coach of the Jamaica's Under-20 football team, said he expects Haiti to be their toughest opponent in the final round of the Caribbean Football Union...

PRIMM, Nevada (CMC):Unbeaten Cuban heavyweight boxer Odlanier Solis is set to make his US debut tomorrow night against the big American, Kevin Burnett, who comes in as a replacement for Jamaican,...

Anthony Foster, Gleaner WriterThe Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA) has started the New Year in embarrassing style.On December 20, secretary Milton Henry communicated a list of 14 players to the...

CASTRO VALLEY — A 51-year-old Castro Valley man survived being stabbed in the stomach with a 14-inch hunting knife last week after a brawl with two men over some missing tools, authorities...

10 jobs, 600 seekers - Some of the more than 600 persons who turned up to be interviewed for 10 vacant posts at The Captain's Bakery and Grill, Half-Way Tree Road, St Andrew, yesterday. - Norman...

Stanton Parris, a former Test umpire, died on Monday at the age of 78 in Barbados. Parris had stood in five Tests and an ODI between 1974 and 1983 though his first-class career extended up to 1990....

CONTRACTOR GENERAL Greg Christie has earned the ire of attorney-at-law Ernest Smith, after opening an investigation into State Minister Joseph Hibbert's actions in connection with British firm Mabey...

President-elect Obama will have more urgent matters to deal with after he takes the oath of office. But somewhere on his long to-do list, he should make a note to finally bring five decades of...

"I have no room. It's not that I don't appreciate people wanting to give me things but it's not fair, as I simply have no room for them," she said.Auntie Olga, whose full name is Dame Olga...

Telecommunications firm LIME is accusing Digicel of blocking calls from LIME customers in other Caribbean countries to the Digicel network in Jamaica, yesterday. But Digicel has denied the...

The Head of the of Bureau of Special Investigations (BSI), Assistant Commissioner Granville Gause, yesterday confirmed that he has made arrangements to interview the three policemen assigned to...

Local human rights group Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) is supporting the Police High Command's decision to transfer Detective Inspector Carlos Bell, the acting crime chief for St Thomas, to another...

THE RURAL DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION (RDC)is looking to reduce the number of its loan schemes, says Ministerof Social Care and Rural and Urban Development Commissions, Chris...

WELLINGTON – West Indies batsman Kieron Pollard was reprimanded by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for damaging a dressing room door after being given out lbw by umpire Mark Benson in...

NORMAN FORDE, John "Nobby" Parris and Ricky Barnes are among some of Barbados' leading footballers who will showcase their skills in the final of the Coujah Water Ivan "Speed" Forde Super Cup...

POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING a burglar that has left the community of Todd's, St George, in disbelief.Early yesterday morning four households were burgled, with items like jewellery and a mobile phone,...

A delegation of U.S. labor leaders Wednesday hailed the efforts of the Cuban government in guaranteeing the people's welfare amid the global financial crisis. They praised Cuban authorities for their...

This undated photo released by Trump International Puerto Rico shows the Trump International Golf Club and Residences clubhouse in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico. (AP Photo/TIPR, Greg...

CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters): Venezuela is reducing crude shipments to US refineries Chalmette and Sweeney to comply with its OPEC output cut of 189,000 barrels per day, to be borne in part by...

anselma@caribbeannetnews.com CASTRIES, St Lucia: Alongside the Caribbean Marketplace taking place this month at Pigeon Point Causeway, January 17 - 20 will also see the hosting of the Arts &...

oscar@caribbeannetnews.com GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Guyanese doctor, Samsundar Lakeram, and his fiancée Raica Dwarka, who were missing since Saturday, causing speculation and wide newspaper...

oscar@caribbeannetnews.com ST JOHN’S, Antigua: A watchdog organisation in Antigua and Barbuda, known as The Free and Fair Election League, is threatening to take legal action if the voters'...

ST JOHNS, Antigua: LIAT on Wednesday welcomed the discontinuation of the 'flow control' which Air Traffic Controllers at Antigua's VC Bird International Airport implemented more than two weeks...