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When a 7-foot bronze statue of 19th century abolitionist Frederick Douglass is unveiled at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, the event will honor a figure whose political legacy looms large but whose personal life is lesser known.

Staff / Katherine Frye.Though Austin Statham is well known for his kindness and helping others, in his spare time he also plays the guitar in a band and gives lessons.

The United States and Cuba have agreed to resume bilateral talks on migration issues next month, a State Department official said Wednesday, the latest evidence of a thaw in chilly relations between the Cold War enemies.

June 19th, 2013 A chief doctor at a Costa Rican government-ran hospital was arrested yesterday on suspicion of being part of an international organ trafficking network which specializes in selling kidneys to patients in Israel, according to the Attorney General's Office.

June 19th, 2013 Central Bank President Rodrigo BolaA os said that restrictions on credit growth in dollars at the country's financial institutions could potentially be lifted, but that the Central Bank would take other measures against risk associated with an over-abundance of dollars.

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.