KINGSTON, Jamaica, Gleaner – Rainford Angella Rainford, managing director of UK-based Rekamniar Frontier Ventures, is confident that Jamaica's move to diversify the energy sector will result in an almost immediate reduction in the country's oil bill. Jamaica's oil imports amounted...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Guardian - Trinidad and Tobago has obtained further endorsement and recognition for its fight against money laundering and the financing of terrorism by its entry on July 3 into the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs), a release from Finance and the Economy M...

MONTROUIS, Haiti—The only leisure tourist among the UN peacekeepers, aid workers, embassy personnel and missionaries on this beach north of the Haitian capital must have been Anne Fournier. She didn’t live or work in Haiti or pretend to help. Fournier was here for fun, travelling to Hai...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Guardian - Although there were challenges in developing the mango industry and by extension food production, T&T has the potential to develop it into a viable industry said Dr Mario Fortune, chief technical officer, Ministry of Food Production. “The mango industry,...

(Barbados Nation) PORT OF SPAIN – Barbados is so concerned about the future viability of regional carrier LIAT that it sought legal advice on whether its heavily subsidized competitor Caribbean Airlines (CAL) was following CARICOM rules. Speaking to the media at the start of the final day of ...

(Barbados Nation) A weather advisory has been issued for Barbados. A strong tropical wave located about 1050 miles east-southeast of the windward islands is moving west-northwestward at around 25mph. Satellite imagery indicates that shower and thunderstorm activity has increased in organization sin...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate - Recognising the need to raise the level of public awareness as it relates to energy efficiency and renewable energy technology, the Barbados Renewable Energy Association (BREA) will be launching a special Roadshow today. Executive Director of the Barbados Renewable...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC- Jamaica will partner with Cuba to facilitate the local manufacture and assembly of cost effective solar light panels. This undertaking forms part of the administration’s move towards incorporating renewable alternatives into the local energy mix in order to reduce the ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Guardian - The effort that was invested in producing elaborate theatre to celebrate the anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Chaguaramas on Thursday might suggest the seriousness that the region’s leaders have invested in the idea of regional unity. Cynics, howe...

(Trinidad Express) President of the Dominican Republic Danilo Medina has appealed to regional leaders to allow his country to join Caricom. According to a release from the Office of the Prime Minister, Medina addressed 15 Caricom leaders, including Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, during a ret...