PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): One of Haiti's top elections official has fled to the United States after coming under threat, the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) said Monday. read more..

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Haiti and the UN Development Program signed Monday a 1.15 million dollar program to prepare for natural disasters, such as floods, that have killed thousands in the Caribbean nation. read more..

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Six persons from Careenage West Trinidad had to seek medical attention on Monday after being attacked by a swarm of African killer bees. read more..

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: The Trinidad and Tobago Law Association has threatened to take disciplinary action against its members who are practicing attorneys - members it says engage in interviews giving sensitive information about cases to the media. read more..

CHARLESTOWN, Nevis: On Friday, the Performing Arts Multipurpose Centre in Nevis became one step closer to reality when the Nevis Island Administration was the recipient of US$1 million from Taiwan, for the construction of the Centre. During a brief ceremony, Ambassador John Liu delivered the cheque to Premier Vance Amory. read more..

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad: The Road Show progamme being undertaken by the Government of Antigua and Barbuda to raise EC$151 million on the Regional Government Securities Market continued on Monday in Trinidad. read more..

BRADES, Montserrat: Earlier this month, parents of Montserrat Secondary School (MSS) heard a rumor that had the school abuzz over a scandal that surfaced concerning two students who reportedly walked into a classroom and witnessed a male teacher performing an indecent sexual act on a 12-year-old female student. read more..

CURACAO, Netherlands Antilles: Rotterdam's outspoken city councilor, Marianne van den Anker says forced abortions for Antillean teenage mothers, drug addicts and mentally handicapped women will prevent child abuse and a recent rise in anti-social behavior in Holland. read more..

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: The Cabinet reshuffle which took effect Monday in Barbados is being seen in the Opposition camp as an attempt by Prime Minister Owen Arthur to reaffirm his status of maximum leader of both his party and the country. read more..

The victory by Rene Préval in Haiti’s presidential elections poses challenges for the member countries of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM). It was well known that the regional grouping was divided on how to treat with Haiti. read more..

The Constitution that was handed to us by England in 1974 makes provision for upholding the dignity of human values, because we, as a people, affirmed that we believed that all men/women are endowed by the Creator with equal and inalienable rights, reason, and conscience. read more..

That the ongoing international riots over cartoons of the prophet Muhammad was ignited in Denmark and that Muslim youths nearly burned Paris to the ground just months ago, demonstrate the utter futility of nations enacting immigration laws to combat Islamic fundamentalism. read more..

The Columbine High School shootings a few years ago in the United States created the kind of history no school or nation would like repeated. With the face of education across the Caribbean community taking a beating from a lack of resources. read more..

The growth of the information age increased in momentum in the early1990s anchored by the explosion of the internet, the massive global interconnecting network of computers and the World Wide Web, the technology used to access information over the Internet. read more..

In your editorial section on Monday a reader (Jean Fitch, 80 years old) wrote to you about "the wrong doing of America on boycotting Aruba". read more..

CESANA PARIOL, Italy (AFP): Eighteen years after the "Cool Runnings" legend was born, a Jamaican bobsleigh athlete stood on an Olympic podium -- proving that the concept was not so crazy after all. Lascelles Brown, competing for Canada, was considered vital by pilot Pierre Lueders for his medal ambitions. read more..

PARAMARIBO, Suriname: With a convincing seven-wicket win over pre-tournament favorites the Turks & Caicos Islands on Sunday, Suriname clinched the ICC Americas World Cricket League (WCL) Division 3 title. With the victory at the Dr Snellen Park Stadium, Suriname secured a ticket for the Division 2 tournament scheduled for April. read more..

LONDON, England: Reggae Boyz’ skillful striker Ricardo Fuller has returned to Southampton, following a delay in his work permit transfer to Ipswich Town on the weekend. read more..