BASSETERRE, St Kitts— Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas Tuesday presented an EC$528.1 million budget to Parliament outlining a reduction in corporate taxes as well as extending several incentive packages that his administration had earlier implemented in a bid to stimulate the economy of the tw...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) will give its ruling in the matter of Shanique Myrie against the Government of Barbados at a later date, which is yet to be announced. The matter came to a close yesterday at the CCJ’s Headquarters in Port-of-Spain, Trinid...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate -The European Union (EU) is funding programmes and providing resources to ensure that young creative minds are given more opportunities to develop their craft. Working with the government, the hope is to further enhance the resources within the Fine Arts Division at ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - Minister of Industry, International Business, Commerce and Small Business Development Donville Inniss says the Caribbean has to keep up with technological changes in order to take full advantage of doing business in a global village. “I sense that the days of...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell says his seven-week old government has been able to reverse a lack of confidence in the local economy, but warned Grenadians that “these are early days and there are obviously many challenges ahead.” In his firs...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell has named Dr. Cecile La Grenade, a United States trained food technologist, as the Grenada’s new Governor General. In a nationwide radio and television broadcast on Tuesday night, Mitchell, whose government came to offi...

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Haiti’s Finance and Economy Minister Marie Carmelle Jean-Marie resigned Wednesday with immediate effect. Jean-Marie, who has been in the post for a year, sent her letter of resignation to Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe. Her resignation comes amidst constant r...

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Denzil Douglas Tuesday presented an EC$528.1 million (One EC dollar = US$0.37 cents) tax free budget to Parliament outlining a reduction in corporate taxes as well as extending several incentive packages that his administration had earlier implem...

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC – Opposition legislators Tuesday boycotted the presentation of the national budget insisting that the long tabled vote of no confidence in the Dr. Denzil Douglas administration be debated. “We the majority of Elected Representatives in the National Assembly o...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Gleaner - Visitor arrivals fell by six per cent in 2012 but new Tourism Minister Shawn Crockwell is confident Bermuda can bounce back this year and cash in on a number of market opportunities. Crockwell, whose One Bermuda Alliance has been in power for just under four months, tol...