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Transparency’s barometer: Caribbean under pressure?
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Corruption: it’s the big story in the Caribbean. Only here?
Clash over CARICOM - Let’s take a break!
KINGSTON, Jamaica - The following is an edited version of a speech delivered to the Lions Club of Kingston recently.
Caricom ballistics tracking system to help cut case backlog
The 15-nation Caribbean Community (Caricom) hopes a new ballistic information system will help track down guns used by certain gangs and reduce the backlog of criminal cases across the region.
CARICOM youth to benefit from regional after-school programme
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Young people in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will benefit from an after-school pro
Address by Dr. the Right Hon. Keith Mitchell, Prime Minister of Grenada, to the Opening Ceremony of…
Madam Prime Minister, it is a joy to be back in Port of Spain again.
We are grateful for the arrangements, and continued hospitality of your government and people.
U.S. Is Pressing Latin Americans to Reject Snowden
CARACAS, Venezuela — The United States is conducting a diplomatic full-court press to try to block Edward J.
WI players weak in mind games
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - On yet another occasion, the mental brittleness of West Indian cricketers, the batsmen in particular, has been demonstrated as the major weakness in the team performing
Propaganda and emotions trump fact
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua - A recent run-in with a member of the Stanford Victims Coalition was an eye-opener for us.
Opposition party urges rejection of multi-million dollar license fee
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The opposition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) is calling for a meeting between the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) and television broadcasters to
Senior government minister deplores attacks on gays, lesbians and homosexuals
BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – A senior government minister has written a public essay expressing grave concerns about what she perceives could be the promotion of hate crimes against gay men and women
Haiti’s president expected at NAACP convention
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Haiti's president is expected to attend the NAACP's national convention in Florida.
Haiti decrees new law to protect mangrove forests
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Haiti has banned the construction, fishing and hunting in mangrove forests in a move seen as protecting the country’s endangered mangrove forests.
Premier attends Independence celebrations in The Bahamas
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC - Premier Craig Cannonier and other politicians have flown to the Bahamas to celebrate the country’s 40th anniversary of independence from Britain.
Bahamas signs MOU with United States on security
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas government says the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to counter-piracy between The Bahamas and the United States will play a critical role in ma
Energy policy soon finalized
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Barbados’ energy policy is currently being “finalized” and will soon be submitted to Cabinet.
Barbados calls for more humane approach for middle income countries seeking funding
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Finance and Economic Affairs Minister Christopher Sinckler has likened the Caribbean’s vulnerability to climate changes as a “sword of Damocles hanging over our develo
A limiting perspective
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Between the host prime minister’s opening speech and the final communiqué of last week’s CARICOM summit, there was, as feared in many quarters, a distinct lack of comfort wit
Carifesta XI Host Country Agreement Signed At Meeting Of Heads Of Government
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Suriname became the first Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Member State and host country f