KINGSTON, Jamaica - Jamaica can create a platform for economic growth by using the example of Barbados, which stood up to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and offered wage cuts as a viable alternative to the Fund's prescription of devaluation when the country almost ran out of international...

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Haitian law enforcement authorities say they have seized more than 2,000 kilogrammes of illegal drugs over the past 20 months and confiscated more than a million US dollars. Head of the Anti-Drug Unit, Joris Mergelus, said in addition 238 people have been detained...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica police say they will adopt new strategies to deal with the upsurge in criminal activities after official figures show that more people were killed here during the first nine months of the year as compared to 2012. Figures released by the Jamaica Constabula...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Former New York police commissioner William “Bill” Joseph Bratton is expected to arrive in T&T in November to conduct a “diagnostic test” of the Police Service to determine the root cause of its problems and find a way forward for a more efficien...

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The regional airline, LIAT, Wednesday said it had accepted the resignation of its chief executive officer, Ian Brunton, more than a week after it promised a “formal announcement” on the issue. But the brief statement gave no reasons for Brunton&rsq...

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The Antigua and Barbuda government has warned it would move against people setting up illegal websites to promote the island’s Citizenship Investment Programme (CIP). Attorney General Justin Simon told Parliament that the Baldwin Spencer administration i...

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit says a two-day geothermal conference will provide Dominica with an opportunity to secure funding for its geothermal energy development. “It will be an opportunity to share with potential partners and current partners about the pro...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados Tuesday announced plans to establish a national oil spill contingency fund. Addressing the start of a two-day regional workshop on the International Liability Compensatory Regimes for Pollution Damage, acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of the Envi...

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas government says legal proceedings against people involved in the abuse of Cuban detainees here will begin “imminently”. National Security Minister Bernard J. Nottage said that the investigations into the allegations of abuse of the Cuban detainee...

ASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas government Tuesday confirmed that 13 Cuban nationals had been detained by the Defence Force after they were picked up in territorial waters on Monday night. Foreign Affairs Minister Frederick Mitchell in a brief statement said that the “illegal migrants...