The World Bank said on Thursday that it is providing two grants amounting to US$27 million that will help more than 600,000 Haitian children return to school and provide rural communities with basic services and infrastructure following the January 12 devastating earthquake....read more

Former prime minister Edward Seaga has come out in support of calls for the Jamaican leader Bruce Golding’s resignation over his handling of the Christopher “Dudus” Coke saga that has resulted in over 70 deaths to date....read more

A senior United Nations official is expected to call on the United States next week to stop Central Intelligence Agency drone strikes against people suspected of belonging to Al Qaeda, complicating the Obama administration’s growing reliance on that tactic in Pakistan....read more

Maintaining its stance that the Baldwin Spencer–led administration is illegitimate, opposition members of Parliament boycotted yesterday's Lower House sitting and staged a protest outside the Parliament building....read more

West Indies cricket officials have moved two international matches from Jamaica due to the outbreak of violence on the Caribbean island....read more

As BP waited Thursday to determine the success of a risky attempt to cap a well in the Gulf of Mexico, government scientists said that possibly more than twice the oil had spewed than...read more

Another person has been taken into custody in Pakistan in connection with the failed bombing attempt in New York's Times Square, a senior intelligence official said Thursday....read more

Opposition Leader Lester Bird says he and other opposition legislators will stay away from Thursday’s sitting of Parliament insisting that the present legal matters regarding...read more

The Network of NGOs of Trinidad and Tobago for the Advancement of Women has described as “phenomenal” the victory of Kamla Persad Bissessar as the first female head...read more

Rescue operations resumed Thursday morning in Peru after a possibly overloaded ferry capsized in the Amazon River, killing at least 12 of the officially listed 152 people on board, the state-run Andina news agency reported....read more