ST JOHN’S – LIAT’s chief executive officer David Evans has confirmed that the company recently terminated two pilots accused of "blatantly disregarding instructions from the company’s Flight Operations Department and flying an aircraft to VC Bird International Airport just hours before the recent passage of...
ST JOHN’S, Antigua – A Magistrate’s Court in St Vincent yesterday ordered a flight attendant with the regional airline, LIAT, to pay EC $10,000 forthwith or serve nine months in jail after she pleaded guilty to money laundering charges. Sherita Kernelle Newton, 30, was charged with...
WASHINGTON, (CMC) - The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) says antiretroviral treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS is increasing in Latin America and the Caribbean. PAHO said that nearly 600,000 more people are receiving antiretroviral treatment for HIV in the region than in 2003. PAHO released the...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haïti (AFP) - Haiti's cholera epidemic has killed 132 people and may have infected nearly 15,000 others so far this year, a UN agency report said Wednesday. The Caribbean country's cholera outbreak started in 2010 and "an unacceptable number of people have been affected, with...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) - A group of 41 men who were being held for crimes including murder, kidnapping and robbery broke out of a jail outside Caracas early Wednesday, authorities said. The men escaped through a "hole in the wall" at the detention centre in Los...