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ANTIGUA-ELECTIONS-Ruling party official urges patience as country awaits crucial court ruling

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Chairman of the ruling United Progressive Party (UPP), Leon Chacku” Symister said Monday he believes the OECS Court of Appeal is doing everything possible to give an early ruling in case that could have a bearing on the Antigua and Barbuda general elections.


Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer has said in the past that he cannot name the date for the general election because of the two outstanding court matters that had been filed by the main opposition Antigua Labour Party (ALP) leader, Gaston Browne.

ANTIGUA-POLITICS-Political parties at odds over date of general election

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The ruling United Progressive Party (UPP) and the main opposition Antigua Labour Party (ALP) continue to trade barbs over the date for a general election in Antigua and Barbuda.


UPP chairman Leon “Chacku” Symister, insists that the government is legitimate and has brushed aside remarks by the ALP that Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer must name the date for the polls given that it is more than five years since the last general election was held here.

Caribbean fertility rates low

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, Guardian - The assumption that the Caribbean is a hotbed of fertility is a fallacy, local experts say.

Rising teenage pregnancies and large families with up to ten children can give a false picture of a highly reproductive population but, with a falling T&T birth rate (currently 15.2 births per year per 1,000 people), the medical director of T&T’s only IVF fertility clinic, Dr Catherine Minto-Bain, says we are just about replacing our population.

Caribbean answering the global call to end stigma and discrimination

KINGSTON, Jamaica (UNAIDS) -- The Caribbean response to HIV has known many successes in recent years. Since 2001 there has been a 54% decline in AIDS-related deaths while new HIV infections have dropped by 49%. Twenty times more people are accessing HIV treatment now than there were ten years ago. And several countries are on track to virtually eliminate new HIV infections among children by 2015.

CARIBBEAN-ENVIRONMENT-Regional workshop on biosafety opens in Dominica

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – A three-day regional workshop on the environmental risk assessment in biosafety began here Monday as the region prepares to participate in two important international environmental conferences later this year.


The workshop forms part of a regional project for implementing national biosafety frameworks in the Caribbean and according to the director of the Environmental Coordinating Unit here, Lloyd Pascal, “this business of biosafety is critical, is important to us”.

CARIBBEAN-RIGHTS-Caribbean countries yet to ratify convention allowing children to complain directly to UN about human rights abuses

UNITED NATIONS, CMC – No Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country has yet ratified an agreement that went into effect Monday, allowing children the right to complain directly to the United Nations about alleged violations of their rights.


UN child rights experts Monday hailed the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure that came into force three months after Costa Rica became the 10th country to deposit its instrument of ratification.

EDITORIAL: Girvan’s vision for single economy

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nation News - NOTED THINKERS, scholars and decision-makers of the Caribbean Community continue to offer moving tributes to the remarkable contributions of Dr Norman Girvan who died last week in Havana, Cuba, where he was undergoing emergency medical attention following serious injuries suffered from a fall while on a visit to Dominica.

Major economies express confidence about growth

WASHINGTON—Finance officials of the world’s major economies expressed confidence that they can meet an ambitious goal of boosting global growth by US$2 trillion over the next five years.

Lunar eclipse

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nation News - Just after 3 a.m. today, the moon turned red.


The lunar eclipse started after 1 a.m. and about two hours later, the full effects were visible from several places across Barbados and the world.

Massive fire besieges Chile for third day; 15 dead, 500 hurt

VALPARAISO, Chile (AP) — Helicopters and airplanes dumped water on wildfires and the smouldering wreckage of hilltop neighbourhoods around Valparaiso for a third straight day Monday as sailors in riot gear stood ready to evacuate 700 more families whose homes could be lost if the winds shifted.

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