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This is the third cabinet change in President Michel Martelly’s 20 month presidency, and it comes after months of speculation about the stability of his government.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Rescue teams have recovered one body and are continuing their search for eight other people after two boats with at least 20 people on board collided in the Mazuruni Riv

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Four Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) will come under focus later this month when two workshops are convened in Saint Lucia

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The CARICOM Electoral Observer Mission (CEOM) was invited by the Government of the Federation of St.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — One of Hugo Chavez's brothers says the Venezuelan president is expected to return home from Cuba in the coming days as he continues to recover nearly six weeks after und

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar says she has “no quarrel” with the Integrity Commission after it wrote President George Maxwell Richards seeking its support f

KINGSTON, Jamaica - The world has not yet escaped the risk of a collapse in the global economy despite some renewed confidence heading into 2013, the founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF) tol

BRADES, Montserrat, CMC – Officials from the Britain’s Department for International Development (DFOD) will on Thursday begin a review of Montserrat’s national budget, according to an official st

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Prime Minister Dr.

NEW YORK, CMC - Fitch Ratings has upgraded Jamaica’s economic outlook from negative to stable and also affirmed the island’s long-term foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs).

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas government says it has launched an investigation into an oil spill incident over the weekend even as Environment Minister Kenred Dorsett said that the spill had

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Trinidad Cement Ltd (TCL) cannot just keep raising prices every year, ANSA McAL's chief operating officer Gerry Brooks has said.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Minister of Tourism Stephen Cadiz is in the Bahamas for the Caribbean Travel Marketplace and to convene with the Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) Aviation Committee

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – Regional tourism officials are calling on Caribbean heads of government to convene a regional summit on tourism within the next six months to discuss key issues affecting t

KINGSTON, Jamaica- Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie has issued a warning that there is no bigger threat to the future viability of tourism in the region than crime.

KINGSTON, Jamaica - The next four years are being touted as the "grand legacy phase" for United States (US) President Barack Obama and some influential Jamaicans in the diaspora are suggesting th

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government Monday described as “ironic” the inauguration of President Barack Obama on the day the United States observe a public holiday mar

Havana, (Prensa Latina) The Foreign Ministers of Cuba and Venezuela, Bruno Rodriguez and Elias Jaua, respectively, agreed on the urge to consolidate the Community of Latin American and Caribbean

KINGSTON, Jamaica - HEAD OF the Economics Division at the University of Technology (UTech), Sharon Nelson, says United States President Barack Obama's feverish push for positive economic growth i

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - BOTH THE President of Haiti Michel Martelly, and Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Albert Ramdin, have separately lamented the conti