ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – As several Caribbean countries prepare to celebrate MAYDAY, the traditional day of workers on Wednesday, a Dominican trade unionist is lamenting the failure to establish a Trade Union Congress (TUC) in the country. Head of the Public Service Association (PSA), Thomas L...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Caribbean nations are making another go at getting Britain to reform its burdensome Air Passenger Duty (APD). “It is the moral and fundamental thing to do,” Minister of Tourism Richard Sealy told a meeting in London to reconstitute the APD Committee comprising amo...

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – A delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) arrives here on Monday to review the operations of the multi-million dollar Stand By Agreement (SBA) the financial institution has with Antigua and Barbuda. A government statement said that the review, whi...

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – After threats of sanctions and of ignoring United States copyright laws just a few months prior, Minister of Finance Harold Lovell is sounding the most optimistic he has in recent times that a settlement with the US over the online gaming issue will be reached. Lovel...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Confidence is low among Caribbean businesses, with only the largest companies reporting signs of an upward swing in prospects for the future, according new research. The Global Economic Conditions Survey from ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and the Ins...

BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – Australia will use its expertise in guiding the Caribbean adapt to climate change and manage its coral reefs. Coral reefs provide benefits to the Caribbean valued at over four billion annually. The reefs of the Caribbean are of great importance in providing shoreline p...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said she was not pressured by any Government minister into accepting the resignation of former minister Jack Warner. The Prime Minister returned from Canada on Saturday night and said it was in fact the Concacaf findings and report by ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Trinidad and Tobago has now been challenged to entertain the prospect of a Jack Warner scenario that is still being scripted. Such is the outcome, first, of the unfolding of increasingly devastating revelations and events and, then, of his own calculating responses. His re...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - THERE is an unfortunate pride that is linked to owning national airlines in the Caribbean. It is a pride that goes before a fall. Successive Jamaican governments held on to Air Jamaica although the airline bled money and depended heavily on massive financial support from taxpayer...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Haiti has launched an ambitious vaccination campaign against tetanus and the rotavirus that causes severe, fatal diarrhea in children under the age of 5. The campaign comes a year after the Michel Martelly administration launched a similar campaign against several ...