Jamaica’s National Security Minister, Peter Bunting, has defended the country’s right to deny entry to Trinidadian Yasin Abu Bakr and  sought to justify the cost of  his deportation. Nearly 36 thousand US dollars was spent on a hiring a plane. The Jamaat al Muslimeen leader arrived in the country late last week and claimed to be visiting his daughter who ...

Fearing the deadly Ebola virus, workers at Trinidad and Tobago’s state-owned oil company, Petrotrin, were up to late Tuesday resisting efforts to berth an oil tanker that arrived there. The tanker, Overseas Yellowstone, arrived at Point-a-Pierre arrived last Thursday, but since then has been unable to offload its consignment of imported crude oil to operate its refinery. You can download ...

The St. Lucia-based Caribbean Electric Utility Service Corporation (CARILEC) is dispatching teams from power companies across the region to assist hurricane-hit Anguilla and Bermuda. Dutch Sint Maarten residents are also grappling with limited water or no electricity supply in parts of that territory. In all three territories, residents and authorities said life was gradually returning to normal- the major problem ...

An Electrical Engineer at Edward B. Beharry Group of Companies was early Sunday morning gunned down outside his Prashad Nagar home moments after exiting a car. Neighbours, relatives and police sources said Abdool Salim,24, was shot several times as he ran away from his attackers who were on cycles. The incident occurred on Delhi Street, Prashad Nagar, Georgetown about 4 ...

A Guyanese Muslim, who was on his way to Jamaica to participate in Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan’s Million Man March on Monday, said he was ordered off a flight in Antigua because authorities in Jamaica have refused him permission to land. Gerald Perreira, who is the Chairman of the little known Black Consciousness Movement Guyana (BCMG), hinted that ...

Miami, Oct 18 (EFE).- Hurricane Gonzalo has begun to weaken rapidly after causing severe flooding in coastal areas of Bermuda and leaving that affluent British overseas territory largely without power.Gonzalo, which struck the mid-Atlantic island Friday night as a Category 2 hurricane and still has maximum sustained winds of 100 mph with higher gusts, is quickly moving away from Bermuda, the Miami-based National ...

(BBC ).-Hurricane Gonzalo has hit Bermuda with winds of about 175km/h (110mph). The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) has warned of high winds and “life-threatening storm surge” the after the eye of the hurricane passed the British Atlantic territory. Eighty per cent of the island chain has lost power because of the hurricane, Reuters quotes Bermuda Electric Light Company as ...

Caracas,(EFE).- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Thursday his government can withstand a continued drop in oil prices and recalled that the South American country has requested an urgent OPEC meeting to address the issue. “A revolutionary government with economic power like the one I preside over, we have plans, I have plans, to get through any situation, no matter how ...

New Delhi, Oct 17 (EFE).- The India-Latin America and Caribbean conference concluded its most successful edition to date on Friday, before an audience of 350 representatives from the world of politics and business who came to New Delhi to participate in the event. The conference’s sixth edition was organized by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), ...

Washington, (EFE).- Guatemala’s Eduardo Stein, one of the candidates seeking to become head of the Organization of American States, said here Thursday that it would be regrettable if the presence of Cuba at the 2015 Americas Summit prompted other countries to boycott the event.Whether to invite Cuba “is no longer a question,” as the Panamanian government has already taken steps ...