ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – The World Bank has suspended disbursements to Grenada after seven loan defaults in February. The Washington based financial institution said no new loans would be issued to Grenada unless the island makes good on the overdue payments amounting to US$750,000. ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – When high-level teams from the Caribbean Community and the United Nations Security Council visited Haiti in February last year to assess the post 2010 earthquake reconstruction efforts, one of the unanticipated issues that had to be taken account of was an outbreak of chol...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC - Haiti’s President and Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Chairman, Michel Martelly arrives here on Wednesday for a two-day visit to the Secretariat of the regional integration grouping. A CARICOM Secretariat statement said that Martelly will hold discussions with CARICOM ...

PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC – Haiti’s President Michel Martelly is due here on Friday for talks with his Surinamese counterpart, Desi Bouterse as the two Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries seek to deepen bilateral relations between them, according to an official statement issued here....

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Tuesday ruled that the statements of two people interviewed by a police officer as part of his investigations into allegations by a Jamaican national that she was assaulted by an immigration officer when she visited Barbados in 2...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The immigration officer who interviewed Shanique Myrie when the Jamaican came to Barbados in 2011 became suspicious because the visitor was travelling here for the first time, and had also met the person who planned to host her on the Internet. This was revealed to the Caribb...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Pamela Clarke was a surprised woman when her mobile phone rang on March 14, two years ago, and police stationed at Grantley Adams International Airport were on the line. Clarke told the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) yesterday she was even more surprised when police told he...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – The newly elected Grenada government of Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell will present a “holding budget” to Parliament next month. Economic Development Minister Oliver Joseph said that the Estimates of Revenues and Expenditure for 2013 are expec...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A three-day workshop aimed at creating a regional strategy to accelerate the reduction of maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity began here Tuesday amid concerns over the high levels of mortality rates for post neonatal infants and children under the age o...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Officials from the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) are meeting here this week examining the use of credible data from social development programmes to further inform policies for reducing or eliminating juvenile delinquency in the sub-region The OECS ...