PAT WATSON   A drive through a Parkdale neighbourhood with a friend one evening in January 2009 turned into a wrenching police encounter for Dr. Clem Marshall. The experience is one that is all too fami
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BOSTON: A U.S-based human rights group has given the United Nations 60 days to reach a compensation deal or face a lawsuit from victims of Haiti’s cholera epidemic.   The UN has already indicated that
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BASSETERRE: The Government of St. Kitts & Nevis has announced that manufacturers operating businesses in the Federation, including several at industrial sites, will benefit from duty free quota access for a se
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KINGSTON: Jamaica’s Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Roger Clarke, has expressed concern over the quality of foods being imported into Jamaica for public consumption.   He has asked the Bureau o
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ST. JOHNS: Leeward Islands Air Transport (LIAT) has agreed to challenge the Government of Trinidad & Tobago for providing “unfair” subsidies to Caribbean Airlines (CAL) while at the same time pushing for closer linkages wi
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PORT-OF-SPAIN: Former international football executive Austin “Jack” Warner launched his bid for re-election to the Trinidad & Tobago parliament last Sunday and accused some of his former government colleagues of being ung
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WILLEMSTAD: Helmin Wiels, a popular Curacao politician and leader of the Dutch island’s largest political party, Pueblo Soberano, was shot dead on Sunday afternoon by two men who fired five shots at him, killing him instantly.
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BELMOPAN: Australia will use its expertise in guiding the Caribbean to adapt to climate change and manage its coral reefs.   Coral reefs provide benefits to the Caribbean valued at over four billion annually. The reefs
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BY PAT WATSON   The weekly wage for garment workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City, where in 30 minutes a historic March 25, 1911 fire took the lives of 147 workers, was based on pi
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: The World Bank says a ground-breaking initiative has created thousands of jobs for young Jamaicans in the virtual global economy.   Last week, the World Bank announced that Digital Jam 2.0 – a digita
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