BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — Barbados has made a request of the social networking website, Facebook, for information on the use the social media site by three of its citizens. Barbados is the only Caribbean Community country to have made such a request, so far. Facebook has, for the first time...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) It is a great pleasure and privilege for me to be here with all of you at the Closing Ceremony of the Eleventh Caribbean Festival of Arts and to deliver these brief remarks on behalf of the Secretary General of the Caribbean Community, H.E ...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Director-General of the Caribbean Forum of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (CARIFORUM), Mr Percival Marie, is set to embark on his first official visit to Grenada since that country assumed the Chairmanship of CARIFORUM, with effe...

Three Hundred and forty (340) Surinamese youth and ten (10) Chinese Shaolin Monks stole the show at the Opening Ceremony of CARIFESTA XI in Paramaribo, Suriname on Friday night. As if to give living testimony to Surinamese President His Excellency Desi Bouterse’s assertion that culture &ldqu...

A special and unique celebration of Caribbean culture begins here and now with the Opening Ceremony of this Eleventh commemoration of CARIFESTA. We have come from all over the Caribbean Community and are joined by our family and many friends from Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa, to experience...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The newly appointed director of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) Implementation Unit at the Guyana-based Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, Carlos Wharton, says he intends reviewing the work of the unit as a priority. “The stocktaking exercise ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, Guardian - More than US$2 billion is spent on the annual food import bill by Caricom countries, which have a combined population of only six million people. Dr Richard Cox, capacity building officer of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, shared the statis...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Stabroek News - It is little over fifty years since a sustained campaign, led by the then opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) under Alexander Bustamante, resulted in a referendum decision approving the country’s withdrawal from the West Indies Federation, and supporting n...

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – The Dominica government Wednesday described as “mischievous and ill informed” reports that the island cannot make payments to Venezuela for petroleum products received under the existing PetroCaribe initiative. Acting Prime Minister Reginald Austrie, speakin...

GEORGETOWN, Cayman Islands, CMC - Chief Justice Anthony Smellie has ruled that Education and Employment Minister Tara Rivers can keep her West Bay seat in the Parliament after the husband of an election rival had filed a petition challenging her nomination. “The Hon. Chief Justice’s ruli...