The island Haiti’s tourism leaders describe as the Caribbean’s ‘last true treasure island’ will be put under the development knife, as it undergoes an eco-makeover to become the region’s next biggest tourism hot spot. The region’s Ministry of Tourism has proposed ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - Jamaica has received US$2.4 billion in funding support from Venezuela under the PetroCaribe agreement, since the facility was established in 2005. Chief Executive Officer of the PetroCaribe Development Fund (PDF), Dr. Wesley Hughes, says the funds, allocated between July 20...

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – One of the Caribbean’s longest serving head of government says he is ready to work with whichever leader the electorates in Grenada and Barbados select in general elections on Tuesday and Thursday respectively. “First of all, I make no comment about an...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Civil servants stayed away from their jobs on Monday disrupting several government services and ignoring appeals from Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony and the main private sector organisation to end their industrial dispute over increased salaries. The workers, repr...

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Dominica authorities say they intend to take a harder line, including legal action, against people who fail to pay taxes. Comptroller of Income Tax Irwin Williams, speaking at the launch of the 12th annual Tax Awareness Week, said that the Inland Revenue Division (IRD)...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – The Canadian government says it is assisting Grenada overcome the challenges facing the nutmeg industry. It said together with the St. George University, it has adopted a two phase approach to the improving the production of nutmeg, a process that has seen v...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - THE OPPOSITION PROMISED an economic stimulus package but it is the re-elected Freundel Stuart administration that is about to deliver one. Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler revealed yesterday in the House of Assembly during the first day of debate on the 2013-2014 Estimates o...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Barbados’ food import bill has reached unsustainable levels for a small island developing state. This was pointed out by the Permanent Secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Tourism and International Transport, Shelley Carrington, while addressing the opening of the Ministri...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Dookeran has met with his Ecuadorean counterpart, Ricardo Patino, as diplomatic efforts increase to encourage T&T’s support for contentious proposals to reform the Inter-American human rights system. Yesterday’s meeting in P...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - Former High Court judge, Anthony Carmona, 60, was sworn in as Trinidad and Tobago’s fifth head of state on Monday at a public ceremony held at the Hasley Crawford Stadium, on the outskirts of the capital. In a ceremony carried live on radio and television, Carmo...