Senator Knowlson W Gift, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Trinidad and Tobago, on Thursday night addressed the nation on the current dispute with Barbados which he referred to as ?hostile? on the part of Barbados and gave the assurance that Trinidad and Tobago would defend itself in the strongest possible way...

News Source: Trinidad Newsday

Prime Minister Owen Arthur and his team of officials will not be going to Trinidad and Tobago to meet government officials there until T&T furnishes Barbados? government with a copy of a contentious memorandum of understanding (MOU) that it signed with Venezuela last August...

News Source: Barbados Advocate

Gunmen went on a rampage in St. Catherine and Kingston yesterday, killing at least six persons, including two family members of a family and a Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) soldier...

News Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Twenty Haitian refugees, including seven uniform-clad students and a three-year-old boy, arrived in Jamaica yesterday when their boat ran aground at Hector's River in Portland...

News Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Prime Minister Patrick Manning said yesterday that the Government intended to protect its natural resources while the Coast Guard warned it would arrest Barbados fishermen found carrying out their trade in this country's territorial waters...

News Source: Trinidad Express

Neville Davidson, a Jamaica Defence Force soldier, was charged this week in connection with fraud involving the withdrawal of millions of dollars from the Royal Bank of Trinidad and Tobago (RBTT ) through its ATMs (Automated Teller Machines), in December last year...

News Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Barbados has been saying they want more access to the fish in T&T?s waters, but they have not been offering anything in return said Anselm Francis, a senior lecturer at the Institute of International Relations...

News Source: Trinidad Guardian

Although a diplomatic bungle forced a meeting in Barbados on the fishing and maritime border disputes to be called off yesterday, Government still hopes to smoothen troubled waters when Barbados prime minister Owen Arthur arrives in Port-of-Spain today...

News Source: Trinidad Guardian

A severe outbreak of intestinal infection rotavirus has claimed two lives and is threatening hundreds of others, mostly children, in a Jamaican resort town...

News Source: Scotsman.com

In two related dramatic developments yesterday the Prime Ministers of Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados met unannounced at a posh hotel in Barbados for urgent closed-door talks? on the current tense state of relations between the two countries...

News Source: Trinidad Express