BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The drugs-for-guns trade has reached Barbados and could be largely responsible for the increased presence and use of firearms here, say police sources. And intelligence gathered by the Regional Security Systems (RSS), the organization charged with the defence and security of ...

Survivors and family members of nearly 700,000 Haitians who have contracted cholera are suing the United Nations for billions of dollars, accusing the U.N. of covering up its role in starting the worst outbreak of the deadly disease in modern history. “They have to help us because there are s...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Regional energy security is among the many issues to be discussed at the second meeting of the ministers of Energy of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), on October 24 and 25. The two-day meeting is scheduled to take place at the Montego Bay Convention ...

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, CMC – Gender inequalities in the digital economy will be examined here this week at the 12th Session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean. The October 15-18 intergovernmental meeting, organized by the Economic Commission for...

WASHINGTON, CMC – Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell has called for the implementation of a growth and transformation agenda coupled with his administration’s efforts to strengthen the Grenadian economy. Addressing a protocolary meeting of the Permanent Council of the Org...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC- Manufacturers here have urged the Government to reexamine issued related the Value Added Tax (VAT) that was introduced one year ago. The manufacturers state that with empirical data and stakeholder feedback now available, the Government is in a position to make the necessa...

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Antigua and Barbuda has launched its “Citizenship by Investment Programme” (CIP) with Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer saying the initiative is to generate investments and jobs for nationals and to put the island on the road to sustainable growth and ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - In its publication on remittances released last month, the World Bank said Antigua & Barbuda has regained its status as a high income economy, leaving the majority of regional developing states behind. The reversal comes after the island of 89,070 residents finalised an Inte...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The unprecedented withdrawal of Barbados’ bond offer on the international financial market has serious implications for the financing of Government spending in the short term, the foreign reserves position in the medium term, and the country’s external debt servici...

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Government is being advised, by two well-known economists, to begin making contingency plans to limit the impact that a prolonged impasse in the US could have on Antigua & Barbuda’s economy. Regional economist McCarthy Marie and local economist and politic...