PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The board of directors for Caribbean Airlines is on schedule to present its report to the Finance Minister within its three-month timeframe, chairman Phillip Marshall said yesterday. He added that the board had been undergoing several “immersion sessions” on th...

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC - President of the Republic of China Ma Ying-jeou will pay a two-day State visit St. Kitts and Nevis as part of a Latin America and the Caribbean tour next month. A statement from the Taiwanese embassy here said that President Ma will arrive here on August 18 as part of h...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - DESMOND HAYNES and Andy Roberts have achieved much success in cricket for the West Indies. Now, they will look to do the same for their respective franchises when the Caribbean Premier League’s (CPL) T20 competition begins tonight at Kensington Oval....

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – It is undoubtedly the case that the essential structures of authoritarian rule, using the army as a critical instrument of stabilization, were constructed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, in his long period of domination following the military’s abolition of the Egyptian monar...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Representatives from international development partners (IDP0 meet here on Tuesday for the Third Forum on Donor Coordination involving the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). A CARICOM Secretariat statement said that the meeting presents the opportunity for engagement bet...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica says it is confident the island will start to see economic growth as it implements the multi-million Economic Reform Programme (ERP) with assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Finance Minister Dr. Peter Phillips is urging citizens to support t...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Public servants in Barbados can breathe a bit easier. For now. Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler has promised that if the struggling economy does reach the stage where Barbadians are to be put on the breadline, trade unions and the population will be consulted first. “I...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -The latest data from the Central Statistical Office indicates that headline inflation in Trinidad and Tobago accelerated in June even though core inflation remained low and stable, the Central Bank said yesterday. Headline inflation rose to 6.8 per cent in June compared to 5...

Cholera is likely to be a public health problem in Haiti for many years to come. Cholera spreads via contaminated food, water and fecal matter. One of the essential parts of the government's 2.2-billion-dollar National Plan for the Elimination of Cholera in Haiti is financing for sanitation syst...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - His home in flames last Monday night, top priority for 74-year-old Lucien Janise was to snatch up his passport. “Everything burn, everything gone… The only thing I could save was my documents, that’s it. No clothes, no nothing.” Perhaps 50 mainly wo...