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Haiti's Duvalier 'to face courts'

Haiti's ex-leader Jean-Claude Duvalier had the right to return to the country but must now face justice, President Rene Preval says. (BBC)


Clico's ticking timebomb

The president of Guyana has warned that final cost for the Eastern Caribbean from the collapse of the insurance giant Clico could depend on what Barbados does next. (BBC)


Baby Doc charged

Former Haitian leader Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier is charged with corruption and embezzlement. (BBC)


BBC Caribbean News in Brief

UK tells Montserrat to live within its means, doctor convicted of altering fingerprints - and more. (BBC)


Get on with CCJ, says outgoing President

Outgoing CCJ president Michael de la Bastide calls for more support for the regional court among member states. (BBC)


Cholera 'worse than expected'

Up to 800,000 Haitians will contract cholera this year, double previous estimates, new report says. (BBC)


Grenada chooses Olympic base

Grenada Olympic team haas chosen to train at Sunderland University in north-east England. (BBC)


Cricket World Cup fixtures (BBC)


Japans tragedy

Japan's tragedy: Caribbean consequences (BBC)


All change in Europe

All change in Europe By David Jessop (BBC)


BBC News on BBC Caribbean (BBC)


Diabetes hope (BBC)


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Cuba gets cable link to Venezuela

Cuba welcomes new internet cable link with Venezuela (BBC)


World hunger 'needs swift action'

The current food production system is unsustainable and will fail to end hunger unless it is radically redesigned, a report warns (BBC)


Forum: dialect dilemma

The place of Creole or Patois in Caribbean society continues to divide public opinion. Your views. (BBC)


Pressure mounts over Haiti vote

Haiti elections (BBC)


Did the New Cross fire create a black British identity?

Examining the legacy of the 1981 New Cross fire (BBC)


BBC Caribbean's last day on air

BBC Caribbean's final week of broadcasting at the end of an era which started with World War Two programming. (BBC)


BBC Caribbean News in Brief

Baby Doc hospitalised, operations at TCI airport expected to resume after sickout - and more. (BBC)


BBC Caribbean in pictures

In pictures: A lookback at the years of BBC Caribbean and West Indian broadcasting to the Caribbean region. (BBC)


West Indies crush woeful Bangladesh

West Indies crush woeful Bangladesh (BBC)


In pictures: It's J'ouvert

Our Carnival picture gallery begins with Monday's fun J'ouvert as Dominicans take to the streets. (BBC)


Trinidad seeks to better protect children after 6-year-old girl was raped killed

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) -- People in Trinidad are demanding better child protections after the body of a 6-year-old girl was found stuffed in a plastic bag after police said she had been beaten and raped. Gender, Youth and Child Development Minister Clifton De Couteau told reporters late Friday that legislators would soon debate bills that would create a national child registry and punish ... (caribbeanherald.com)


Trinidad shaken after girl 6 found...

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) -- People in Trinidad are demanding better child protections after the body of a 6-year-old girl was found stuffed in a plastic bag after police said she had been beaten and raped.Gender, Youth and Child Development Minister Clifton De Couteau told reporters late Friday that legislators would soon debate bills that would create a national child registry and punish ... (caribbeanherald.com)


Puerto Rico to debate daylight saving...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Legislators in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico are expected to debate a proposal that would create a daylight saving time like the one imposed in the U.S. mainland.Sen. Margarita Nolasco says the bill she submitted would allow people to maximize daylight hours and help lower power bills.The U.S. territory would wind its clocks back one hour starting in late October ... (caribbeanherald.com)


Haiti DR should seek a human solution Vatican’s envoy says

Santo Domingo.- The Vatican's new envoy Jude Thaddeus Okolo considered Haiti and the Dominican Republic must find a humane solution to the plight of thousands of citizens of Haitian descent in the country.Okolo also said the Catholic Church would mediate if both parties require so. "I wish there could be a dialogue between the two sides, so you can find a humane solution in addition to ... (caribbeanherald.com)


Villanova shocks Kansas in The Bahamas

Villanova isn’t as talented as Kansas. In fact, Kansas will almost assuredly have a better season than Villanova. But, tonight in The Bahamas, Villanova was the better team — they were ... (caribbeanherald.com)


Dionne Jackson Miller Jamaicas Journalist of the Year

Dionne Jackson Miller of RJR Communications Group was decclared Journalist of the Year, 2013, at the annual Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) awards ceremony in Kingston on Friday night. Rashawn Thompson of Nationwide News Network is the Young Journalist of the Year. The Journalist of the Year Award has now been won by the RJR Group for the fifth time in the last six years, with the sequence ... (caribbeanherald.com)


Cayman Islands agrees to report US citizens’ offshore assets under controversial law

USA The Cayman Islands has signed an agreement with the United States to combat offshore tax evasion pursuant to a controversial 2010 law that has caused some notable US expatriates to revoke their US citizenship. The US Department of the Treasury announced Friday the US has signed an intergovernmental agreement with the Cayman Islands to enforce the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act ... (caribbeanherald.com)


Owner Reunited With Disabled Dog Thanks to a Tip From Cuba

The Miami Herald reported that the 7-year-old male Schnauzer named Puppy was found wandering the streets of Northwest Miami-Dade on Tuesday after it escaped through a backyard fence. The dog wears diapers and uses a custom-made wheelchair. A hernia operation three years ago left his hind legs paralyzed. The county shelter made public pleas on local media, but Puppy's owner, Mireya Fernandez, ... (caribbeanherald.com)