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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados- Barbados is ranked No. 1 in the Caribbean when it comes to information and communication technology (ICT) development for 2012 to 2013.

UNITED NATIONS, CMC – Belize Monday appealed to the international community to help Small Island Developing States (SIDS) overcome the problems associated with the global economic situation as we

UNITED NATIONS, CMC - Antigua and Barbuda Ambassador to the United Nations, John Ashe has called for “new and innovative” sources of financing to supplement decreasing official development assist

WASHINGTON, CMC - St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - It is of significance and relevance to note that even before last Friday’s historic decision by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in the case involving Barbados and the

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The recent landmark judgment handed down by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in the case of Shanique Myrie versus The State of Barbados, which saw the Court ruling in M

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The Caribbean Court of Justice’s (CCJ) decision in the high profile Shanique Myrie case has implications for the broader freedom of movement regime, says principal of the U

MIAMI, CMC - The United States Southern Command, which overseas US military operations in the Caribbean and Latin America, says a US-contracted detection and monitoring aircraft has crashed into

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados and Cuba have paid homage to the victims of the 1976 bombing of a Cubana Airlines jet off the coast of Barbados that killed all 73 people on board, lamenting

KINGSTOWN, St.

WASHINGTON, CMC – After registering “disappointing growth" in 2012, Trinidad and Tobago is poised for a modest recovery in 2013, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said.

KINGSTON, Jamaica - TORONTO, Canada (IDN) — A new report has highlighted the importance of funds remitted home by migrants, which are now nearly three times the size of official development assis

KINGSTON, Jamaica - BURDENED as they may be with their respective domestic, social, economic and political challenges, it is becoming increasingly evident that the 15-member Caribbean Community (

When Haiti was hit by the devastating earthquake in 2010, its island neighbour, the Dominican Republic, rushed to help.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - From her busy schedule of travel and other obligations, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar must make time for an ugly crisis engulfing two member states of Cariforum,

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Haitian officials on Saturday expressed strong disagreement with a Dominican Republic court ruling that denies citizenship to children of Haitian migrants.

Georgetown, Guyana - The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) have launched a new joint project to help developing countries,

Georgetown, Guyana - The poor state of livestock and crop production in the Caribbean is due in large measure to the low priority given to agricultural research by regional governments, according

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Businessman Claude Clarke, in defence of Jamaican manufacturing, said last Thursday that Jamaica should suspend the Common External Tariff, no matter the legal consequences.

KINGSTON, Jamaica - JAMAICA loses $15 billion in revenues from subsidising imports from the Caribbean Community (Caricom), according to former industry minister Claude Clarke.