Caribbean

Bermuda’s Government has bowed to public pressure and switched the date of the country’s National Heroes\' Day from October to June.

Antigua’s Deputy Prime Minister Wilmoth Daniel has resigned, however, he still remains a member of the government of Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer.

The Guyana parliament has voted to add air traffic controllers to the list of essential service workers prevented from going on strikes.

The leader of the main opposition party in St. Kitts and Nevis, Lindsay Grant is cautioning Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas against making any changes to the constituency boundaries.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says Latin America and the Caribbean will recover more quickly from the global crisis than advanced economies.

Guyana’s Opposition Leader Robert Corbin is expected to undergo surgery in a New York hospital today.

The Chinese government has offered to fund the construction of Trinidad and Tobago’s first aluminum smelter plant.

Hundreds of educators are staging a protest in southern Belize against what they say is growing violence in school neighbourhoods.

Cuba has signed an agreement with North Korea aimed at strengthening bilateral relations.

Former Suriname trade minister Siegfried Gilds has been sentenced to a year in jail on conviction of money laundering charges.

US civil rights leader, Reverend Jesse Jackson, is being sued after he failed to turn up at a speaking engagement in Trinidad and Tobago.