KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Finance Minister Dr. Peter Phillips is leading a delegation to Europe for talks with officials from a financial institutions, according to an official statement released here. It said that the talks are intended to apprise agents in the international capital markets o...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados government says it will soon introduce legislation to facilitate renewable energy generation on the island. “We expect, within the next few months, to have the legislation passed for independent power producers,” said Energy Minister Darcy ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - SINCE the present government was ushered into power in the election of 2011 there has been a great deal of hope that an International Monetary Fund agreement was necessary to put the economy on a sustained path for growth. A view I hold to be misguided — despite the importa...

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC – The leader of the main opposition People’s Action Movement (PAM), Shawn Richards, has accused the government of “using the armed forces” in an effort to intimidate citizens as he commented on the decision by members of the St Kitts Nevis Defence F...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Dominica will be the first country within the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) to participate in a national public awareness programme on the OECS Economic Union. OECS Director of Economic Affairs Randy Cato said the public awareness programme is aimed...

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has described as “pure mischief” the decision of a radio talk show host to write the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) objecting to the appointment of former Grenada government minister as a magistrate in Dominica. Attor...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Owning 100 per cent of one apple tree is sadly still more attractive to many local businesses than owning only one per cent of an apple farm containing one million trees. Despite the fact that the latter options provides access to 10 000 trees, “calling the shots” ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - ALTHOUGH there was no official response from management, it is known the West Indies are upset over the severity of the sentence placed yesterday on wicketkeeper and vice-captain Denesh Ramdin for his appeal for a spilled, tumbling catch off Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq in t...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Dr Peter Phillips must be under tremendous pressure from his Cabinet colleagues over the slide of the Jamaican dollar in relation to the greenback, now at J$100:US$1. But Dr Phillips and the central bank governor, Mr Brian Wynter, must hold their nerve. In fact, Dr Phillips has ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - A member of the diaspora in Canada has said that it is time Jamaica engage Canada in the discussions aimed at eking out an alternative energy solution to solve the local energy crisis. Addressing a Gleaner Editors' Forum at the newspaper's North Street, Central Kingston ...