BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - Air transport is one of the most likely mechanisms through which a new disease can quickly spread throughout the world. So says Minister of Health, John Boyce. Speaking at the Fifth CAPSCA-Americas Meetings and Training at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre yesterd...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - PRIME Minister Freundel Stuart is set to meet with officials from the Ministry of Civil Service today. Stressing that the Government has not embarked on a “crusade” to lay off persons in the public sector, the Prime Minister said the meeting will be hel...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - A Nigerian spiritual leader often referred by his devotees as “Jesus Christ living among us” arrives here Wednesday to celebrate the Caribbean presence of his 57-year old organisation. Olumba Olumba Obu, hopes to meet with politicians and diplomats during ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Police Monday fired teargas and engaged in a gun battle with residents of Beetham Gardens, on the outskirts of the capital, protesting the killing of a 23 year-old man by police on Sunday night. “We were making our way through one of the alleys in the Beet...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Professor of Social and Political Change at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Brian Meeks, has warned that if the United States takes military action against Syria, Jamaica’s fragile economy could be in serious trouble. On the weekend, Professor Me...

MIAMI, CMC – Crewmembers aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Kodiak Island have repatriated 23 Cuban migrants to Bahia de Cabañas, Cuba, in the latest repatriation efforts. In a release on Friday, the US Coast Guard said the repatriation was a result of three migrant interdiction cases. It sa...

BEIRUT/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Syria hailed a “historic American retreat” yesterday, mockingly accusing President Barack Obama of hesitation and confusion after he delayed a military response to last month’s chemical weapons attack near Damascus until after a congressional vo...

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Anti-apartheid leader and former South African President Nelson Mandela returned to his home yesterday where he will continue to receive intensive care after three months in hospital with a lung ailment. Mandela, 95, had spent 87 days in a Pretoria hospital after he ...

LONDON, (Reuters) – Poverty and the all-consuming fretting that comes with it require so much mental energy that the poor have little brain power left to devote to other areas of life, according to the findings of an international study published on Thursday. The mental strain could be costing...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - SMALL Island Developing States (SIDS) in the region have been given some pointers on how they can foster private sector partnerships, with the help of banks. Deputy Premier of the British Virgin Islands Kendrick Pickering says the BVI has developed a programme foster...