BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - A MONTH from this week, Heads of Government of CARICOM will be meeting in Port of Spain for their regular annual summit. They will have much to reflect on – the just concluded rounds of informal meetings in Trinidad and Tobago with United States’ Vice-President Jos...

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua - Economics is sometimes referred to as The Dismal Science. It is not hard these days to be sympathetic to that definition, when we consider the mess that some of the supposedly smartest economists have led our world. Earlier in March, Wall Street’s Moody’s Inve...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, CMC – The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) says it will support Guyana in developing its trade in agricultural products. IICA Director General, Víctor M. Villalobos met with Guyana’s Agriculture Minister Leslie Ramsammy, who outl...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - On June 4, 1940, Winston Churchill stood in the House of Commons and painted the picture of a country that would refuse to bow to the pressures of a German annihilator. In one of his three most celebrated speeches, “We Shall Fight on the Beaches”, the victories whi...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados, Dr. DeLisle Worrell, Monday urged regional bankers to use the opportunities which new technologies offer in delivering central bank services as efficiently as possible. Addressing the 23rd Regional Central Banks Information ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana Monday signed the United Nations Global Arms Trade Treaty. The treaty calls on states to explicitly consider the risk that an arms transfer could facilitate serious acts of violence against women and children before allowing it to proceed, said Susan Bissell, U...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Foreign Minister Winston Dookeran yesterday signed the Arms Trade Treaty which establishes common international standards for the movement across borders of conventional arms and ammunition. When the Treaty comes into effect after 60 nations have signed and ratified it, ill...

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe said Monday that the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country would like to see itself as “an emerging mining country” within the next two decades. "Haiti would like to place itself as an emerging mining count...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica will be the venue for the launch of the United Nations Development Programme's (UNDP) Human Development Report (HDR) on Tuesday, UN officials have said. Human Progress in a Diverse World', will be attended by officials from Brazil, India, the Caribbean ...

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC - Opposition Leader Arnhim Eustace Monday said a bill asking Parliament to approve EC$208 million (One EC dollar = US$0.37 cents) in further loans to help finance the EC$652 million Argyle International Airport “nearly shocked the life out of me”. Eustace expe...