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ST.JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC - Sections of the northeastern Caribbean were rocked by a 4.8-magnitude earthquake on Saturday evening.

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, CMC -Officials in the Dominican Republic have denied reports of an outbreak of avian flu adding that the World Health Organisation declared the country free of

KINGSTON, Jamaica - THE GOVERNMENT is considering several measures, among them the imposition of a levy on fast foods, to fund health care on the island.

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves is to travel to Rome to accept an award from the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) in recognition of St.

BELLE ANSE, Haiti - The hardship of hunger abounds amid the stone homes and teepee-like huts in the mountains along Haiti's southern coast.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) has established a working group on the United States Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), the first positive steps taken towa

OSLO, Norway, CMC – The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has signed an economic cooperation agreement with the Norwegian Foreign Affairs Ministry aimed at sharing e

WASHINGTON, CMC – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) says leading experts from academia and development institutions will gather here this week to address development challenges facing the

KINGSTON, Jamaica - It is generally accepted that for small developing countries, like Jamaica, who are in severe economic difficulties, there are few, if any, alternatives to the policy stipulat

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) — Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries have told the Organisation of America States (OAS) that budget cuts are threatening the provision of scholarships and the activi

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Whatever it is A.J. Nicholson drank last Friday, we hope Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller will insist that he recommend it to Industry Minister Anthony Hylton.

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Calls from Foreign Trade Minister A.J.

KINGSTON, Jamaica - THE first in a series of planned consultations, across this region, for the introduction of a Five-Year Strategic Plan for CARICOM had a low-profile start in Barbados last Wed

KINGSTON, Jamaica - The relationship of Jamaica with its Caribbean neighbours in a regional organisation was first publicly discussed at a conference in Montego Bay in 1947, called by the British

It is my pleasure to welcome you all on behalf of the Directorate of Human and Social Development and indeed the entire CARICOM Secretariat.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The Caribbean Premier League, which bowls off in Barbados on July 30, could bring many benefits to the sport and the region.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - Even as Chinese President Xi Jinpeng was making his way around the region to promote more trade and cooperation between China and Latin America and the Caribbean, visiting Tr

KINGSTON, Jamaica - England's expression yesterday of sincere regret and offer of compensation for the acts of torture that a British colonial government carried out against Kenyans fighting for

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - Jamaica has been selected by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to host the official ceremony for World Blood Donor Day (WBDD) for the Region of the Americas, on

KINGSTON, Jamaica - THE United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has condemned what it describes as the "unrelenting violence" against the nation's children, saying that a total of 16 children wer