CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – The St. Lucia government says the decision by the United States to prevent members of the local police service from participating in training programmes financed by Washington has nothing to do with the island’s decision to join the Venezuela-led Bolivarian All...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – The main opposition United Workers Party (UWP) Tuesday called on the St. Lucia government to publicly indicate its position on the Syrian conflict saying that the island’s position should not be guided by recent statements by members of the Bolivarian Alliance ...

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – The St. Vincent and the Grenadines government says it is holding talks with public sector trade unions regarding the payment of outstanding arrears to civil servants. Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves told reporters that his administration is seeking to pay the ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - INCREASED productivity is the only way to maintain and improve the competitiveness of the Barbadian economy. So says Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados, Dr. Delisle Worrell, who stated that increased productivity would also help to secure growth and result in...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - GOVERNMENT continues to look into ways to facilitate foreign investment into the country. So says Prime Minister Freundel Stuart who was speaking to the media following a tour of the Limegrove Lifestyle Centre on Monday. According to the Prime Minister, “th...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, the use of animal guts to produce biodiesel is not a new technology. However, of late there has been growing interest in “aquaticbiofuels” – producing bio diesel from fish gut...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - The civil war in Syria has been raging for about two years, with over 100 000 people killed and nobody seemed to care. A few weeks ago it was alleged that sarin nerve gas was used by the Syrian regime, killing about 1 500 people, and all hell breaks loose. We are not...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Chronicle - CHARGE d'Affaires of the United States (U.S.) Embassy in Georgetown, Mr. Bryan Hunt has said Guyana has one of the better security regimes of the countries within CARICOM. He offered the opinion to reporters last Friday following a certification of several persons...

WASHINGTON/BEIRUT, (Reuters) - President Barack Obama won the backing of key figures in the U.S. Congress, including Republi-cans, in his call for limited U.S. strikes on Syria to punish President Bashar al-Assad for his suspected use of chemical weapons against civilians. Speaking after the United ...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC - Climate change experts from across the Caribbean begin a three-day meeting here on Tuesday to discuss ways of reducing the impact of climate change on the region’s agriculture and tourism sectors. The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Secretariat will h...