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Robert De Niro to Develop $250 Million Hotel Project in Barbuda
Caribbean Journal
Film star Robert De Niro has signed a memorandum of understanding to develop a hotel project on the island of Barbuda
Trade Jumps Between Caribbean, Brazil
By the Caribbean Journal staff
Trade between Brazil and the Caribbean Community has significantly increased in recent years, according to Brazil’s new Ambassador to CARICOM, Lineu Pupo De Paula.
Bermuda gov’t plans to legalise medical marijuana
JAMAICA OBSERVER
HAMILTON, Bermuda, (CMC) — The Bermuda Government has unveiled plans to legalise marijuana for medical use, while also giving police more discretion to caution first-time offenders who might otherwise be charged with marijuana possession.
Guyana's President suspends Parliament
DEMERARA WAVES
President Donald Ramotar on Monday kept to his much anticipated promise and prorogued the Parliament but the 65-seat National Assembly could very well still meet later in the afternoon because the Speaker Raphael Trotman has not received a copy of the Official Gazette of the proclamation.
UPDATE: Pastor Myles Munroe among nine dead in Bahamas plane crash
Caribbean News Desk
Bahamas Faith Ministries leader, Dr Myles Munroe was among nine passengers on board a plane that crashed in Grand Bahama this afternoon, Tribune242 reported Sunday night.
Several arrested, cocaine seized in Antigua
Caribbean News Desk
Five persons have been arrested and 50 kilogrammes of cocaine seized by Antigua and Barbuda drug agents, the Office of National Drug and Money Laundering Control Policy said at the weekend.
Haiti Begins Work on Another New International Airport
By the Caribbean Journal staff
Just weeks after debuting its new airport terminal in Cap-Haitien, Haiti has begun work on a brand-new airport in Jeremie.
GUYANA: General elections almost certain
DEMERARA WAVES
Guyanese are almost certain to go to the polls before year-end, now that the opposition has maintained that it would be going ahead with its no-confidence motion in the House when it convenes on Monday.
First Turks & Caicos Islands Premier calls for CARICOM to carefully watch the British 'modern-day coup underway in the territory
TURKS & CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS
In a press statement on October 10, former Premier Michael Misick congratulated the former Premier of the Cayman Islands McKeeva Bush, on clearing his name of corruption charges.
Attorney General's voice: Aware of a plot to launch an armed attack on Kaieteur News; govt stands by him
DEMERARA WAVES
Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall's voice has surfaced, heard purportedly saying that he is aware of a plot by an armed person to invade the newspaper’s offices in retaliation to a number of articles that are being published against certain persons.
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