KINGSTON, Jamaica - Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller as well as several government ministers will be heading overseas in the coming days on separate engagements. Simpson Miller left for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, yesterday to participate in the 50th anniversary of the Organisation of African Unity/T...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - THE OFFSHORE SECTOR has always been major part of the financial employment generating and foreign exchange earning aspects of our economy, and along with tourism, it has helped to fill the breach created by the decline of sugar. But the potential for that sector to do even mor...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Caribbean governments should seek far reaching agreements with creditors when pursuing debt restructuring instead of accommodating short term measures that will eventually have to be re-negotiated before feeling the positive impact. Jurgen Kaiser, a coordinator and resea...

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Immigration and criminal defence lawyer Fitzmore Harris said the Caribbean and other developing nations need to prepare for the impending “brain drain” that will result from the US immigration reform. “The Caribbean has to become more competitive regarding, for example, remunera...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Despite the economic hardships Caribbean countries face, it is important that regional countries work together to overcome the difficulties, said Dr Dillon Alleyne, economic affairs officer and deputy director, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Eclac)...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – The Board of Governors of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) began a two-day meeting here with a warning to regional countries that while they urgently need to address their fiscal and debt issues, a narrow adjustment programme will be unsustainable....

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, May 22, CMC – The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) Wednesday began its 43rd Board of Governors meeting here with St. Lucia’s Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony calling on the international financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to develop ...

BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC - The death of 12 babies at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital (KHMH), has been linked to the outbreak of it enterobacter cloacae – an organism that is said to be responsible for major outbreaks in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) all over the world. In a release on W...

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has called on Dominicans to embrace their African heritage. Addressing the opening ceremony of the 50th anniversary of African Liberation Day, Skerrit said he also wanted the celebrations to be part of the National calendar. “And...

WASHINGTON, CMC – The World Bank has approved two new grants for maternal and child basic health services, and business development and investment in Haiti. The Washington-based financial institution said about 1.8 million women and children in the earthquake-ravaged, French-speaking Caribbean...