PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Republic Day has huge significance in the history and development of T&T, but how many people appreciate and understand it? Republican status was the next big step after independence, when the country really became a sovereign nation. But that fact does not seem to be ...

New statistics have been released showing that the cholera epidemic that affects Haiti, which has infected more than 600,000 people, has reached a death toll of 8,190 three years after its outbreak in 2010. Infected peacekeepers from the United Nations are thought to have brought the disease to Hai...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Finance Minister Christopher Sinckler is leading a delegation to Britain and the United States hoping to attract new investments to Barbados. The delegation, which includes Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados, Dr. Delisle Worrell, will meet with bankers and po...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – The St. Lucia Employers Federation (SLEF) is calling on the government to lower the near one-year old Value Added Tax (VAT) so as to provide “some breathing space” to local business in the face of job losses and business closures. "This reduction will pr...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – The Grenada government said Monday that it would make the “necessary changes” to the Electronic Crimes Bill after the legislation was criticised by regional and international media groups as curbing free speech on the island. “I have agreed...

BOGOTA, Colombia -- Last week, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff cancelled a U.S. state visit over allegations that the National Security Agency listened into her conversations and spied on state-run oil company Petrobras. On Tuesday, as she kicks off the United Nations 68th General Assembly, she&...

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC - While Bermuda wrestles with the thorny topic of introducing casinos to the island, cruise ship passengers could soon be allowed to gamble on board their vessels while in port. A bill to allow in-port gambling has been tabled in the House of Assembly. The legislation, long so...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Prominent Barbadian jurist Sir David Simmons Monday called on the Trinidad and Tobago government to review the Commission of Inquiry legislation after the leader of the Jamaat-al Muslimeen group failed to appear before the Commission probing the circumstances tha...

WASHINGTON, CMC – Barbados Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS), John Beale, has been appointed Vice Chair of a Working Group that will lead discussions on the Strategic Vision of the hemispheric body. The group, established by the OAS Permanent Council, is ch...

BRUSSELS — As Angela Merkel savored the results of Germany’s national elections, newspapers on the left and right in Greece on Monday gave the same mournful assessment of what the result means beyond German borders. “Victory for the Queen of Austerity,” declared the front pag...