A former St Lucia attorney general Philip La Corbiniere is reporting that a politically-led initiative to bring peace to some inner city hot spots has backfired.
Former American president Jimmy Carter wants the leaders of Haiti and the Dominican Republic to forge a pact to rid the island of Hispaniola of malaria.
The finance minister Audley Shaw has appealed to the World Bank to intensify its efforts in working with Jamaica to find innovative solutions to the country’s high level of indebtedness.
The European Union (EU) has committed $6 billion to Jamaica to improve the justice sector and implement the recommendations for the strategic review of the police force.
The Government is defending the decision of Prime Minister Bruce Golding to appoint businessman Christopher Zacca as a special advisor in the face of mounting criticisms.
Jamaica’s 18-man cricket squad, selected for the upcoming West Indies Cricket Board President’s Cup One-Day tournament in Guyana later this month, has its first training session at Sabina Park today.
A five-member World Bank team went to Guyana to conduct a study on the country\'s readiness to participate in the Bank\'s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF), according to a report on www.cananews.net.
Two Jamaican nationals in the British Virgin Island have been found guilty of murdering a woman who was thrown from a fourth floor apartment three years ago, according to a report on www.cananews.net.
Two Americans and an Israeli scientist won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry today for atom-by-atom mapping of the protein-making factories within cells, a feat that has spurred the development of antibiotics.
Travellers flying between Barbados and the United States could do so under the watchful eye and protection of air marshals, as efforts to upgrade security systems at the island\'s Grantley Adams International Airport (GAIA) continue.
Former secretary general of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS), Norman Girvan, is the likely choice to serve as the United Nations Good Officer in the Guyana -Venezuela border dispute, according to a report on www.cananews.net.
The son of Belize Prime Minister Dean Barrow faces deportation to his country of birth after serving more than nine years in jail, according to a report on www.caribbean360.com.