BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) is urging regional fashion designers to participate in the Dominicana Moda to be held in the Dominica Republic in October. Caribbean Export said under the 10th European Development Fund (EDF),...

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas government says it will make no comment regarding allegations of abuse at the Carmichael Road Detention Centre until the official investigation is completed. But Foreign Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell has criticised the main opposition Free National Movement ...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – The Grenada government says it intends to use the system of geographical indications together with other intellectual property tools to protect its nutmeg and other spices as it brands the commodities. Tourism Minister Alexandria Otway Noel addressing a Sub r...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) said that the chairman of the board of Television Jamaica Ltd. (TVJ) Milton Samuda, had engaged in censorship when he restricted the questions to be asked of two Olympians last month. In a letter to the Chairman of t...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – The small opposition Lucian People’s Movement (LPM) Wednesday said that it supports the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) in principle but, cautions the St. Lucia government about a long-term dependence on the organization. “While the government...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government says it remains committed to the safety of all visitors to the country as it responded to a travel advisory issued by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). The FCO in a travel advisory warned British nationals visit...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - In an effort to promote the Caribbean as a destination for health and wellness, the Development and Promotion of the Caribbean Health and Wellness Tourism Sector Project has been launched. This is according to Valarie Pilgrim, Operations Officer at the Caribbean Deve...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - Cultural industries, cultural preservation and heritage tourism are terms that have gained currency in recent years as efforts continue to diversify the limited scope of the Barbadian economy. The country scored a major feather in its cap with the UNESCO World Herita...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Stabroek News - Since Michael Manley succumbed in the second half of the 1970s, after his experiments in economic and foreign policy radicalism, to the IMF’s insistence that he accept one of their more severe programmes for the recuperation of a depressed Jamaican economy, ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Chronicle - THE relationship between Guyana and Venezuela continues to grow from strength to strength and the upcoming state visit of that nation’s president is an indication of this, Foreign Affairs Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett said yesterday, as preparations continu...