Tropical Storm Felix strengthened into a hurricane today and spun through the Caribbean towards a group of small islands off Venezuela.

CORK City Council is to ask SIPTU for full details of the pay and conditions of staff on board the Swansea Cork Superferry following allegations of wage abuses.

DIGICEL, the Denis O’Brien-owned mobile phone company that serves the Caribbean region, formally completed the acquisition of seven businesses in the region that previously belonged to American mobile giant Cingular Wireless.

Tropical Storm Emily grew to hurricane strength today as the system crossed the Windward Islands of the Caribbean, the National Centre in Miami said.

Denis O'Brien's Digicel Group announced today it has entered into an agreement to acquire Cingular’s Caribbean operations in a multi-million dollar deal which significantly increases the size of Digicel’s Pan-Caribbean network.

Caribbean islanders are braced for Hurricane Ivan, scrambling to put up storm shutters and buy water just days after Hurricane Frances tore across the region.

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THE more that is revealed about the Prestige and its devastating oil spill off the Spanish coast, the more shameful it all becomes.

A proposed blacklist of “very dangerous” substandard ships was published today by the European Commission.

The European Commission has published a blacklist of 66 allegedly dangerous merchant vessels, which it proposes should be banned from European waters, following the sinking of the Prestige off Spain.