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Juan Carlos Echeverry, former finance minister in Colombia, speaks with The Gleaner at the World Bank's offices in New Kingston yesterday.

The signing ceremony yesterday followed the work of the Tobago Division of the Chamber of Commerce over the past five years toward the implementation of the Debt Restructuring and Economic Stimulus Plan which was approved by Government in 2012 and launched in October 2012.

Your doctor's name, your past illnesses and medical history, even the kind of medicine you take - these are the types of personal details for sale in a multimillion dollar underground market.

Commissioner Darwin Dottin has been removed as head of the Royal Barbados Police Force after nine years on the job.

A member of the Honduran presidential guard was fatally shot during an armed robbery in Tegucigalpa, a spokesman for President Porfirio Lobo's administration told Efe Tuesday.

It was a quiet part of the Father's Day Mass as about 300 people stood up in preparation for communion.

A slow-moving tropical depression will continue to bring torrential rainfall and the risk of flooding to parts of southeastern Mexico, Belize and Guatemala into midweek.

The Republic Bank of Trinidad and Tobago has displaced the Social Security and National Insurance Trust as the largest institutional shareholder in HFC Bank, raising fears of a possible takeover and subsequent rebranding of one of the country's most established indigenous banks.

We are destined to fail at our tourism efforts because the stakeholders, decision makers and governmental associations have no understanding of the new media landscape.

When you head out for a concert featuring an ensemble of America's finest musicians playing the music of some of the world's finest composers, you can be sure you'll have a wonderful auditory experience.

The study and appreciation of Language Arts was given new life when Naparima College recently hosted its first annual Language Arts Department Showcase at the school gymnasium on Paradise Hill, San Fernando.

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Stacey Vernon and her new husband, Nick Miele, just hours before he was arrested after a fight at the Bahia Principe Esmeralda resort in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

June 17th, 2013 The National Front of Indigenous Peoples has issued a statement expressing their complete opposition to the development of hydroelectric projects in their territories.

The murder of an environmental activist in Costa Rica has shaken the country's ecology-minded public and has cast a light on what appears to be the growing overlap between animal poaching and drug trafficking on the country's Caribbean coast.

OPPOSITION SPOKESMAN on foreign affairs and foreign trade, Dr Christopher Tufton, has stopped just short of describing the staging of diaspora conferences as a waste of time, arguing that Jamaica has yet to benefit significantly from the planning of these events.

The Jamaican government needs to establish an accredited anti-doping laboratory to protect its world-class athletes from taking contaminated substances, the coach of world record holder and Olympic champion Usain Bolt says.

In a public consultation at the Jamaica Conference Centre, Kingston, on Thursday, May 16, Minister of State in the Ministry of Tourism and Entertainment Damion Crawford, raised the possibility of zoning areas for entertainment purposes.

Managua, Nicaragua's capital. A 6.5 magnitude earthquake hit off the Nicaraguan coast about 50 miles from the capital on Saturday.

Prime Minister David Cameron hosts a meeting with the Heads of the Overseas Territories and the Chief Ministers of the Crown Dependencies Anti-poverty campaigners have urged David Cameron to build on his agreement with Britain's network of Crown dependencies and overseas territories to forge a global deal on tackling tax evasion.