GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General Irwin La Rocque Tuesday said that the global economic crisis is having a severe impact on the region resulting in stagnation or declining growth rates. Addressing representatives from international development partners ...

BRIDGETOWN—Caribbean countries have been warned not to lose sight of the bigger goal of economic transformation and development even as they remain pre-occupied with overall economic growth. Former deputy director of the Central Bank of T&T Dr Shelton Nicholls said Caribbean countries &ldq...

Santo Domingo.- European Union ambassador Irene Horejs on Tuesday said Haiti and the Dominican Republic should hold "technical" talks to resolve bilateral trade disputes stoked by Port-au-Prince’s ban on several Dominican products. Although she urged both countries to live in harmony on the i...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Interim leader of the Independent Liberal Party (ILP), Austin Jack” Warner Tuesday said it would be “premature” to say whether or not his party would seek membership of the People’s Partnership government following his convincing victory i...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former justice minister Herbert Volney Tuesday resigned from the ruling United National Congress (UNC), less than a day after the party suffered a humiliating defeat in its stronghold of Chaguanas West in southern Trinidad. In a letter sent to the party’s ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The Barbados Private Sector Association (BPSA) has its own plan to save the Barbados economy. The first two areas on its to-do list are for Government to reduce the country’s national debt by selling off non-strategic, non-core Government assets such as Hilton Barbados t...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The exodus of a number of non-nationals from Barbados in recent times has affected the economy in a negative way. Mia Mottley, leader of the Opposition Barbados Labour Party stated this as she addressed a meeting of the St Vincent and Grenadines Association at the ...

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC - The Leeward Islands Airline Pilots Association (LIALPA) says its members are not involved in any industrial action as the Antigua-based airline, LIAT, deals with a number of problems including flight cancellations in recent days. LIALPA said it had also taken objecti...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former junior national security minister Collin Partap has been slapped with a TT$5,000 (One TT dollar =US$0.16 cents) fine after he was found guilty Tuesday of a charge of failing to submit himself to a breathalyser test outside a night club last year. Chief Mag...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana government says it is monitoring the “unpredictable nature of gold prices” as the commodity was being sold on the market at US$1, 330 an ounce. Natural Resources and the Environment Minister Robert Persaud said the authorities share the anxiety...