MIAMI, CMC – The United States Coast Guard says it has rescued five Haitian fishermen aboard a disabled vessel that had been drifting in the waters off northern Haiti. A brief Coast Guard statement said officials were notified that the vessel had been found in the area of Canal de Tortue and ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - The government of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has been mindful not to go down the same road as others – that of Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan being the most recent – that have opted for bullish, often brutal responses to popular protest. ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - CHINESE are big spenders and should that country become a new source for this country with regard to visitors, the increased spending will redound to the benefit of the local economy. A three-member Chinese delegation attended one of the Mega Fam programmes and spoke highly o...

BRIDGETOWN—The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are to conduct a comprehensive study of Barbados’ financial services sector. A statement from the Central Bank of Barbados said the two Washington-based financial institutions will conduct the financial sector assessment...

WASHINGTON, CMC – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) says it is providing a US$35.5 million grant to Haiti for a programme to expand and improve drinking water services in the capital of the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country. It said the grant will support the secon...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – United States Ambassador Brent Hardt says the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI), now into its third year, is beginning to have an impact as a result of the many programmes implemented to fight crimes in the region. Hardt along with Home Affairs Minister Clem...

KINGSTON. Jamaica - This Tuesday, Jamaica gets what we believe may be a last chance to make up our minds whether we cut the umbilical cord between us and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and strike out alone on an uncertain future outside of the regional bloc. Foreign Minister Arnold J Nicholson, ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Christopher Tufton, the shadow foreign affairs and foreign trade minister, doesn't seem to get it. So, he is shopping around for more bureaucracy - a mechanism, he says, for public-private sector consultation on trade disputes with Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica's Caribbean...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - China has recently pledged significant support to the Caribbean, especially in the area of agriculture, with the first China-Latin America and the Caribbean Agricultural Ministers' Forum being held in Beijing on June 8-9. China’s Ambassador to Barbados, His Excellen...

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC - The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched a project to boost farmer incomes and promote local organizations in northern Haiti. USAID said the five-year “Feed the Future North (FTFN)” project, is supported by “Feed the ...