The Dutch Caribbean Island of Sint Maarten is facing a situation with its public cemetery. Space is running out for burials. Egbert Doran, Minister of Public Housing, Spatial Planning, Environment and Infrastructure recently revealed during a COM press briefing that the cemetery is faced with a...
There will be no Soca Monarch competition this year in Trinidad and Tobago. Geoffrey Wharton-Lake and Ricky Ragoonanan, directors of the Caribbean Prestige Foundation, the body behind the competition, told Loop News that they made a decision to cancel it this year. The men said they spent...
The Grenada government has announced a one-month delay in the implementation of an increase in the Excise Tax on alcohol and tobacco products as well as Value Added Tax (VAT) on sugar, sugary or carbonated drinks. “In relation to the tax on the sugary drinks...
Federal agents have seized $24 million worth of cocaine off a speedboat trying to reach Puerto Rico's southeast coast, authorities said Monday. Authorities arrested two people from the Dominican Republic and one from Colombia as they seized more than 2,200 pounds (1,000 kilograms) of cocaine Friday...
The US Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) has identified the man, who was shot dead in the Sunny Isle Shopping Centre Parking Lot, as 20-year-old Andy Christian. A motive for the shooting was not revealed by the police. Police said Christian suffered multiple gunshot wounds to his...