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...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago Debates Commission is appealing to Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar to re-consider her decision not to participate in a leader’s debate on Tuesday as the voters prepare to elect Mayors and Local Government councilors on October ...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Grenada is examining the possibility of establishing an Elections Boundaries Commission as it seeks to overhaul its electoral system, a senior government official has said. Parliamentary Secretary for Information in the Office of the Prime Minister, Winston ...

cooperation KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC - Several areas for technical cooperation between Argentina and St. Vincent and the Grenadines were identified when Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves paid a five-day visit to that South American nation earlier this month. Gonsalves paid a five-day visit to t...

CARACAS, Venezuela — Maps of Venezuela hanging on the walls of schoolrooms and in government offices show a large striped area to the east of the country’s border with Guyana marked “Zone in Reclamation.” For more than a century, Venezuela has claimed that it is the rightful ...

debt PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Central Bank Governor Jwala Rambarran has called on the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde to move quickly to address the debt challenges and low economic growth issues facing Caribbean countries. Governor Rambarran made the ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Farm Up Jamaica, a bold and innovative agricultural private-sector programme designed to significantly boost the organic production of selected crops in Jamaica was launched last Thursday evening at the Kimberly Hotel in New York City. Farm Up Jamaica is the brainchild of New Yo...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - This is a submission from the Mona campus organisation, UWI Leads Social Justice and Change. We write in response to your article 'Patterson urges CARICOM to condemn Dom Rep's latest immigration law against Haitians' dated Thursday, October 10, 2013, where former Pri...

CARICOM ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Minister of National Security Dr Errol Cort is looking beyond the immediate implications of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) case, which ruled in favour of Shanique Myrie, on immigration policy and practices to the modus operandi used by regional heads th...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Some of the facts established in the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) landmark original jurisdiction decision in the matter Shanique Myrie v Barbados make for uncomfortable reading. Ms Myrie was cursed at, had her phone searched, was held in an insanitary detention facility, then...