Haitian police official held in fiancee's killing

The police commissioner of Haiti's third largest city is being held amid a probe into his fiancee's death. Haitian police spokesman Garry Desrosier said Thursday that prosecutors questioned Ernst Dorfeuille in Port-au-Prince after investigators found unregistered weapons in his home. 1228438840

Jamaica turns to multilateral lenders for $250M

The Jamaican government will turn to the World Bank and other multilateral lenders to close a $250 million shortfall, the country's finance minister says. 1228423240
THE CARIBBEAN

U.S. economic woes felt in Caribbean

Caribbean nations are feeling the sting of the U.S. recession but so far are weathering the storm, according to officials gathered in Miami for a regional conference.
Program to analyze smaller Caribbean businesses' strengths

Small and medium-sized businesses in the Caribbean looking for help on how to better manage their enterprises can now get some free advice courtesy of Scotiabank and the Inter-American Investment Corporation, a multilateral financial institution.
POLITICS

Canada facing a new political crisis

Canada's governor general, a largely ceremonial position, could decide the fate of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's embattled government.
St Kitts PM concerned by spike in killings

Prime Minister Denzil Douglas says he is alarmed by rising violent crime in St. Kitts and Nevis. He is calling on parents to help reduce crime by teaching their kids ``what is right from wrong.''
Guyana leader pardons ex-lawmaker in treason case

Guyana's president has pardoned a former opposition legislator who had been accused of treason. Philip Bynoe was accused of inciting hundreds of protesters to raid President Bharrat Jagdeo's office in 2002.
HAITI

Haiti launches malnutrition survey

As more severely malnourished children and their mothers trickled into Port-au-Prince Monday from Haiti's southeastern region to obtain life-saving treatment, the Ministry of Health and an international anti-hunger aid organization launched a national survey of children's nutritional health.
HAITI

Life gets worse for Haiti's hungry children

Long before dozens of Haitian children died from severe malnutrition, their rural community was no stranger to hunger.
South Florida agency gets $4.8 M to combat AIDS in Haiti

Cross International, a South Florida humanitarian agency, has been awarded a $4.8 million grant from the U.S. government for a new program seeking to stem the spread of AIDS in Haiti.
Amnesty criticizes Jamaica death penalty vote

Amnesty International is urging Jamaica to reform its justice system rather than resume executions to deal with violent crime. Amnesty International Deputy Director of the Americas Kerrie Howard says executions offer only an illusion of action against crime.
Budget shortfall forces cutbacks in Trinidad

The drop in world energy prices is forcing Trinidad and Tobago to postpone the construction of new schools and two major hospitals.
Openly gay marchers debut at Haiti AIDS rally

A dozen men in T-shirts declaring "I am gay" and "I am living with HIV/AIDS" marched with hundreds of other demonstrators through a Haitian city on Sunday in what organizers called the Caribbean nation's first openly gay march.
Grenada officials surprised to find new hotel

Grenada has ordered a Chinese company to stop construction on a nearly completed five-story hotel because it only had permission to build offices.
Bahamas to fund overdue projects to soften crisis

The Bahamas says it will finance several long-overdue projects after recently announcing it would step up borrowing to soften the blow of the global financial crisis.
Grenada halts construction of Chinese-owned hotel

Grenada has ordered a Chinese company to stop construction on a nearly completed five-story hotel because it only had permission to build offices.
Caribbean community: EU aid not enough for pact

Caribbean nations are grumbling that an aid package of euro165 million is not enough to help implement a free-trade agreement with the European Union.
Mining workers in Jamaica demand salary increase

More than 1,000 workers in Jamaica are rejecting a proposal from a Russian-owned bauxite and alumina producer to delay a salary increase.
Atlantic hurricane season blows away records

The 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, which ends Sunday, appears to have attained Olympian heights, setting at least five weather records in the United States and Cuba.
British Virgin Islands offers to pay half of people's light bills

The British Virgin Islands is offering to split the cost of everyone's light bills as it explores alternative energy sources to drive down prices.