ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has described as “pure mischief” the decision of a radio talk show host to write the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) objecting to the appointment of former Grenada government minister as a magistrate in Dominica. Attor...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Owning 100 per cent of one apple tree is sadly still more attractive to many local businesses than owning only one per cent of an apple farm containing one million trees. Despite the fact that the latter options provides access to 10 000 trees, “calling the shots” ...

Britain will not get “special treatment” from EU members to stay in the single market, MPs will warn as they urge Conservatives to be realistic about attempts to repatriate powers from Brussels. The Commons foreign affairs committee will say on Tuesday it is sceptical that member states...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - ALTHOUGH there was no official response from management, it is known the West Indies are upset over the severity of the sentence placed yesterday on wicketkeeper and vice-captain Denesh Ramdin for his appeal for a spilled, tumbling catch off Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq in t...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Dr Peter Phillips must be under tremendous pressure from his Cabinet colleagues over the slide of the Jamaican dollar in relation to the greenback, now at J$100:US$1. But Dr Phillips and the central bank governor, Mr Brian Wynter, must hold their nerve. In fact, Dr Phillips has ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - A member of the diaspora in Canada has said that it is time Jamaica engage Canada in the discussions aimed at eking out an alternative energy solution to solve the local energy crisis. Addressing a Gleaner Editors' Forum at the newspaper's North Street, Central Kingston ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Political will is needed for all the countries in Cariforum and the European Community to ratify the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), British High Commissioner to T&T Arthur Snell said yesterday. He admitted that implementation of the agreement has “not been...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - THE RECURRING challenges of a widening trade deficit for Jamaica with Trinidad and Tobago featured again in the Jamaican senate last Friday but climaxed with an understanding to pursue a non-confrontational strategy for reversal of this lingering negative trend. For all their...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - The relationship of Jamaica with its Caribbean neighbours in a regional organisation was first publicly discussed at a conference in Montego Bay in 1947, called by the British secretary of state, Arthur Creech Jones, to discuss the question of regional political integration. Fro...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - THE first in a series of planned consultations, across this region, for the introduction of a Five-Year Strategic Plan for CARICOM had a low-profile start in Barbados last Wednesday. First official news on the beginning of the consultative process came from the Georgetown-based C...