GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The following is the full text of the communiqué issued Monday after the 34th summit of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders that ended in Trinidad on Saturday, July 6, 2013. “The Thirty-Fourth Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of...

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- A Bill to amend the Caribbean Community (Free Movement of Skilled Persons) Act, to broaden the categories of skilled nationals able to access jobs in regional countries has been tabled in the House of Representatives, by Minister of Labour and Social Security, Derrick Kellier. ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders ended their four-day summit in Port of Spain on Saturday agreeing to the immediate adoption of a stabilisation and growth agenda which emphasises the removal of constraints on competitive production as well as proactive faci...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Guardian - It is 40 years since the founding fathers, the enigmatic Eric Eustace Williams, the autocratic Lincoln Forbes Burnham, the congenial “Skipper” Errol Walton Barrow, and the charismatic Michael Norman Manley signed the Caribbean community and Common Mark...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Chronicle - FINANCE Minister Dr. Ashni Singh and CEO of the CARICOM Development Fund (CDF), Ambassador Lorne McDonnough yesterday signed a country assistance programme agreement that will see some US$7.32M being ploughed into Guyana’s agriculture sector. The deal was inke...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Chroncile - WITH the conclusion last evening of the 34th annual Heads of Government Conference in Trinidad and Tobago, we can expect to officially learn today of new initiatives, if any, taken during the three days of meetings and activities focused on the future of CARICOM now i...

WASHINGTON, CMC – The United States Department of State says Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, Tom Kelly, will travel to the Bahamas this week to “strengthen cooperation on counter-piracy.” Kelly’s three-day trip, which begins on Monday, inv...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - The Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has urged the Portia Simpson Miller led administration to devise a plan for shocks that could jeoparise the deal currently in place with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). During Friday’s sitting of the Upper House, Opposi...

WASHINGTON, CMC – Since the implementation of a comprehensive prevention programme, by the World Bank in 2004, health officials in St. Vincent and the Grenadines have reported a decrease in the number HIV/AIDS cases. The World Bank, in a recent report, said that between 2004 and 2010, the annu...

ST JOHN’S, Antigua- Greenbay resident Victor Richardson II is the first Caribbean national to receive the prestigious honour of the US-based Campaigns and Elections Magazine’s Rising Star award for political consulting. The 2013 awardee experienced elation on hearing the news. He said h...