PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Haiti says it will rename an airport in the north of the country in honour of the former Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez who died of cancer in March. A government spokesman said that the Cap-Haitien International Airport will now be called the Hugo Chavez Internation...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - National Security Minister Jack Warner has the “full support of every single member of the Cabinet”, Communications Minister Jamal Mohammed said yesterday. Mohammed was responding to questions on whether the Cabinet had discussed the various controversies assoc...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The lone commissioner in the enquiry into the collapse of CL Financial Limited, Sir Anthony Colman, QC, yesterday ruled that Clico business magnate Lawrence Duprey and former group financial director of CL Financial, Andre Monteil, must present themselves to testify at the ...

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – The coach of the Dominica Football team, Kurt Hector, is among two people missing and feared dead after the vehicle in which they were travelling fell into a large hole at Pond Case, south east of here as a result of heavy rains over the past few days. Gerald George, a ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - Margaret Thatcher and Hugo Chávez came from opposing ends of the political spectrum but, in a curious way, they shared a common trait: both were capable of arousing, in death as in life, great admiration and devotion, on the one hand, and deep loathing on the other. In th...

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves will join leaders from across the Commonwealth’s small states at a high-level conference on governance in London from April 23 to 25. The Vincentian delegation will also include the Prime Minister’s wife, Eloise, Mini...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica government has presented a J$521 billion (One Jamaica dollar = US$0.01 cents) tax free budget to Parliament with Finance Minister Dr. Peter Phillips indicating that the aim of the Portia Simpson Miller administration is to collect outstanding taxes and remo...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - The Portia Simpson Miller administration is expected to ink an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by early May. In a Gleaner interview following his opening presentation to the Budget Debate yesterday in Gordon House, Finance and Planning Minister Dr Peter Phill...

BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – The International Monetary Fund says Belize is expected to see economic growth in 2013 after the country experienced economic activity last year as a result of a strong rebound in agriculture and services. Gerardo Peraza, who headed an IMF mission to the Caribbean Commu...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - Guyana has dominated the Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) /TravelMole Sustainable Tourism Awards. For the second consecutive year, Guyana won three of the six awards at the awards ceremony at STC-14 that ended here on Thursday night. The 2013 awards comprised six c...