BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has hinted that he is likely to name the date for the next general elections within a few weeks time. But he says he will only announce the date after he meets with the Governor General Elliott Belgrave. “Let there be no mistak...

CHARLESTOWN, Nevis, CMC – Premier Joseph Parry says his ruling Nevis Reformation Party (NRP) will win four of the five seats at stake in Tuesday’s Nevis Island Administration( NIA) even as his challenger, the Concerned Citizens Movement, (CCM) said it too was confident of taking control ...

CHARLESTOWN, Nevis, CMC – A four member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) electoral observer mission arrived here one day ahead of the Nevis Island Assembly elections to monitor the conduct of the poll. The team is led by Jamaican electoral official Pauline Welsh, the Director of Legal Affairs, D...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - BOTH THE President of Haiti Michel Martelly, and Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Albert Ramdin, have separately lamented the continuing defaults in aid pledges for the reconstruction of earthquake devastated Haiti. Their interventions...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government Monday described as “ironic” the inauguration of President Barack Obama on the day the United States observe a public holiday marking the birthday of slain civil rights leader, Martin Luther King. “The inaugur...

KINGSTON, Jamaica- Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie has issued a warning that there is no bigger threat to the future viability of tourism in the region than crime. Addressing delegates at the opening ceremony of the Caribbean Travel Marketplace at the Atlantis on Paradise Island in The Bahama...

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – Regional tourism officials are calling on Caribbean heads of government to convene a regional summit on tourism within the next six months to discuss key issues affecting the industry. In a resolution approved by the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association's (CHTA) ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Minister of Tourism Stephen Cadiz is in the Bahamas for the Caribbean Travel Marketplace and to convene with the Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) Aviation Committee and discuss opportunities for increase of airlift to the region. The minister, upon landing at the Lyndo...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Trinidad Cement Ltd (TCL) cannot just keep raising prices every year, ANSA McAL's chief operating officer Gerry Brooks has said. Brooks told reporters on Friday at the ANSA Coatings Award ceremony, Hyatt Regency (Trinidad) hotel, Port of Spain that what the company nee...

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas government says it has launched an investigation into an oil spill incident over the weekend even as Environment Minister Kenred Dorsett said that the spill had been contained. Dorsett said that more than 200 gallons of fuel had been released into the sea at...